Professor Rob Thomson visits Balfron High School
Rob was delighted to return to his old school, Balfron High School, for the first time since leaving nearly 27 years ago. The visit was organised as part of a careers event being held at the school. During the event, Rob talked to groups of school pupils about his...
Inspiring the next generation of scientists
U-Care researcher, Syam Mohan P.C. Mohanan, has been out to a local primary school to inspire and engage children in STEM. Here is what he had to say about his experience: "I visited Prestonfield primary school in Edinburgh for a science outreach activity. Our team...
John Travers awarded the IET A F Harvey Engineering Research Prize
John Travers, professor of physics at Heriot-Watt University and director of the Laboratory of Ultrafast Physics and Optics, has been awarded the Harvey Engineering Research Prize by the IET. This prize of £350,000 is awarded to phenomenal researchers working in the...
Getting Inside a Neurosurgeons Brain.
Sitting down with Dr Paul Brennan of the U-Care project as part of World Health Day, I was ready to pick his brain about his journey to becoming a neurosurgeon. Paul is a Reader and Honorary Consultant Neurosurgeon at the University of Edinburgh and NHS Lothian. He...
Breakthrough advancement in creating a tuneable, bright, and compact source of Deep Ultraviolet Light.
Working as part of the initial phases in the U-Care project, Professor John Travers and Research Associate Dr Christian Brahms have developed a first-of-its-kind compact tuneable high brightness laser that operates using optical soliton dynamics in gas-filled hollow...
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