Absolutely delighted to have won the The IET​ Leslie H Paddle Scholarship for my PhD research Engineering Science, Oxford Dynamic Optics and Photonics Group University of Oxford. Thanks to @IETawards for putting on such a fantastic evening at Savoy Place and to my brilliant colleagues and supervisors for their support!

The health of the next generation of researchers needs systemic change to research cultures. go.nature.com/2CKk2bK

Check out our new website on Adaptive Optics for Microscopy - all those things that nobody told you. aomicroscopy.org

Want to find out what's happening here? Come along to room 213 SPIE Photonics West at 4.30pm today [11292-30] to learn about laser writing inside liquid crystal devices

The government has announced a mortgage holiday for homeowners but it must suspend rents too. Millions of people rent in the UK. Suspend rents. Ban evictions. Now.

This is a great behind-the-paper post!

Wolfson Student John Sandford O'Neill has published a paper in @nresearchnews on creating topological defects with lasers in liquid crystals: nature.com/articles/s4146…

A fun accessible blog post here about our recent article on control of topological defects in liquid crystal devices

Missing the lab? Feast your eyes on this fantastic polarised image of a plastic magnifying glass. Strong birefringence around the insertion point for the injection mould

How fundamental research on adaptive optics led Martin Booth, Patrick Salter and Andrew Rimmer to start a company that uses lasers to create microscopic marks inside diamonds physicsworld.com/a/making-their…

Fantastic article from Engineering Science, Oxford on our Nature Communications paper on laser fabrication in liquid crystals! See the paper here: nature.com/articles/s4146… and read an accessible introduction here: chemistrycommunity.nature.com/channels/1465-…

Let’s help in any way you can❤️ #BlackLivesMatter blacklivesmatters.carrd.co

Cecil Rhodes was a self-confessed white supremacist, an architect of apartheid, a stealer of African land, and he was complicit in the deaths of countless black Africans. His statue has been kept up by Oriel College because rich alumni threatened to pull donations.

Electrically Tunable Printed Bifocal Liquid Crystal Microlens Arrays. First paper by Waqas Kamal as part of his DPhil with us in Engineering Science, Oxford. Funded by Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and Oxford University Press onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

I don’t even know what to say. Just look at what we can do when we come together, THIS is England in 2020.

Alongside The Access Project The Brilliant Club Brightside @ImpetusPEF IntoUniversity PushTalks upReach Villiers Park Educational Trust Fair Education Alliance we call on the government to take action on #alevels2020. Read the full #coalitionforfairness statement and recommendations: causeway.education/blog/2020y/6m/…

New paper out in Adv. Opt. Mat. "3D Switchable Diffractive Optical Elements Fabricated with Two‐Photon Polymerization" The final paper from the fantastic PhD of John Sandford O'Neill onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ad…

Excited to see our new paper, led by myself and Lucía Martina Martín López, published in PNASNews! We look at movement trajectories of wandering #albatross and find they orient towards to v low frequency 'infrasound' 1/n