The Mid-Infrared Photonics Group led by Prof Angela Seddon (within Optics and Photonics) has achieved four prestigious external prize awards in 2025 for three different PhD students and member of Staff: Dr Sendy Phang as follows:
PhD student Jess Grant (PhD Supervisors: Dr Sendy Phang, Prof Angela Seddon) won ‘Best PhD Paper’ at the Rank Prize Symposium on Translational Healthcare Photonics, 31 March to 3 April 2025 held at Ullswater, Cumbria, for her oral paper “Vibrational Biospectroscopy for Endometrial Cancer Detection: from Screening to the Mid-infrared ‘Optical Biopsy”, describing a highly accurate blood test for endometrial cancer and her work developing the mid-infrared endoscope.
PhD student: Roberta Schiemer (also medical Dr and Surgeon) (Engineering PhD Supervisors: Dr Sendy Phang, Prof Angela Seddon) won best paper of the Gynaecology and Oncology Session at the the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists’ (RCOG) World Congress 2025, 23-25 June, for her oral paper: “Vibrational biospectroscopy of blood plasma for rapid endometrial cancer detection”. Her paper reported first-time highly accurate cancer discrimination of fresh, wet blood analysis (paper published May 2025: British Journal of Cancer doi: 10.1038/s41416-025-03050-0). This paper also received the BGCS (British Gynaecological Cancer Society) Trainee Project Prize.
PhD student Dan Bradley (Principal Supervisor: Dr Emma Barney), won ‘Best Newcomer Paper’ prize at the Society of Glass Technology Annual Conference at the University of Cambridge, 1 to 3 September 2025, for his oral paper: “Development of a structural model of strontium doped bio-phosphate glasses for the interrogation of medium-range order”, in particular demonstrating his novel work on the brand new glass structural software ‘Dissolve’.
Dr Sendy Phang (academic staff member) has won the Young Scientist Award at PIERS 2025 ( Photonics and Electromagnetics Research Symposium). An inscribed trophy was presented for his oral paper: “The neuromorphic recovery of lossy data in chaotic photonic systems”.
Hearty congratulations to these three PhD students and to Dr Sendy Phang, whose external recognition as best oral papers emphasises the extremely high level of research being conducted in Optics and Photonics at the University of Nottingham. The Mid-infrared Photonics Group meets every week, and the Research Group Meeting is for the Group’s PhD students and Co-supervisors. This helps to achieve research goals, build the Team and develop individuals, providing a valuable learning experience for our early-stage engineers and scientists.
Comments are closed