Promotions
The Department congratulates Antonio Hurtado on his promotion to Professor, Alessandro Rossi to Reader, Stuart Ingleby and Peter Kirton to Senior Lecturer, Dominic Hunter and Paulo Moriya to Research Fellow, and Catherine Cheshire to Senior Administrator.
December 2024
Launch of Quantum Hub to support national security and critical infrastructure
The University of Strathclyde is a partner in the UK Hub for Quantum Enabled Position, Navigation & Timing (QEPNT). The University has six researchers active in the Hub.
December 2024
Researchers develop technique to recover and recycle quantum dots in microscopic lasers
Researchers have discovered a way to recycle the tiny particles used to create supraparticle lasers, a technology that precisely controls light at a very small scale.
November 2024
Institute of Photonics Director named in international top 100
The Director of Strathclyde’s Institute of Photonics, Professor Jennifer Hastie, has been named in an international list of 100 leaders in the scientific field.
November 2024
IOP Emerging Leader
Congratulations to Fabien Massabuau for his nomination as 2024 Emerging Leader in the Institute of Physics’ Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics.
November 2024
Magnetic imaging technology to protect infrastructure and security
Dr Dominic Hunter has received a Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) UK Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Research Fellowship to use innovative techniques in magnetometry and vapour cell fabrication to achieve the highest levels of precision, equivalent to a few parts-per-billion of the Earth’s magnetic field..
October 2024
Physics Knowledge Exchange Fellow appointed to Scotland’s Young Academy
Dr Susan Spesyvtseva (Knowledge Exchange Fellow, Physics) is one of three academics to be appointed as members of The RSE (Royal Society of Edinburgh) Young Academy of Scotland.
August 2024
Strathclyde in four new UK quantum technology hubs
The University of Strathclyde is a partner in four out of five new UK-wide hubs established to ensure that the UK fully benefits from the potential of quantum technologies.
July 2024
New approach for space-borne quantum technologies brings global quantum networking closer
Researchers at Strathclyde Physics, together with collaborators at Humboldt University in Berlin, propose the use of single satellites equipped with long-duration quantum memories to shuttle entanglement across the world, facilitating the quantum internet.
May 2024
Launch of GOLDMINE Scientific Collaborative Network
Physics at Strathclyde is a partner in GOLDMINE, a pioneering scientific collaborative network led by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS).
May 2024
Funding for new Physics Technical Apprentice to address skills gap
The University of Strathclyde has received a share of £100,000 from the UK Institute for Technical Skills and Strategy to employ a new Physics Technical Apprentice.
April 2024
Professor Keith Mathieson named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE)
Professor Mathieson, Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies at Strathclyde, has been named as a new Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
April 2024
Spontaneously Sliding Magnetic Waves Unveil a Dissipative Time Crystal in Laser-Driven Atoms
A collaboration between the Optics Division of the Department and the Institut de Physique de Nice from the Université Côte d'Azur observed spontaneously drifting magnetic stripes in laser-driven Rubidium atoms, demonstrating a novel transport process in out-of-equilibrium magnetic systems.
April 2024
Symmetry breaking of light on a Möbius strip
An international team of scientists from New Zealand, Belgium, France and Strathclyde has devised and realised a totally new laser device where symmetry and symmetry breaking are maintained for light travelling in a resonator with a twisted (Möbius) shape.
March 2024
Innovation Node launched to drive development of new time-critical technologies
The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) has launched an Innovation Node at Strathclyde as part of its National Timing Centre programme, the UK’s first nationally distributed time infrastructure.
March 2024
Strathclyde to lead new Centre for Doctoral Training in Applied Quantum Technologies
The University of Strathclyde will lead a new Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Applied Quantum Technologies.
March 2024
Renowned Astrophysicist marks International Women’s Day at Strathclyde
Leading astrophysicist Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell was guest of honour at an event to mark International Women’s Day (IWD) at Strathclyde.
March 2024
Promotions
The Department congratulates Dr Paul Griffin and Dr Jonathan Pritchard on their promotion to Professor.
March 2024
Strathclyde collects Queen’s Anniversary Prize for photonics research and innovation
The University of Strathclyde has collected its fourth Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education at a ceremony in Buckingham Palace. The Award was presented by Her Majesty The Queen in recognition of Strathclyde’s excellence in research and innovation in the field of Photonics – the science of light.
February 2024
Promotion
The Department congratulates Dr Bengt Eliasson on his promotion to Professor.
January 2024