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On Wednesday 30th April 2025 we held our annual training event for academic and industrial CDT supervisors at the National Robotarium on Heriot-Watt’s Edinburgh campus.

On Friday 11th April 2025 our third-year students gave inspiring, interactive, and fun demonstrations to Glasgow Science Centre visitors.

CDT students David Webster and Ultan Daly have both had successful vivas in March 2025 – we wish them all the best for their future

Danielle Clark had a successful viva in December 2024 – we wish her all the best for her future career!

Congratulations to our amazing and inspiring EngD and PhD students, who are graduating at the Winter graduation ceremonies at our academic partners! It was great

November has been a busy month for our students – Francesco Dalla Serra, Matthew Gil, Samuel Buck and Suki Yau have all had successful EngD

On Wednesday 11th September 2024, the CDT in Applied Photonics held an in-person Welcome Event at Heriot-Watt University for our new students.  Supervisors joined us

The CDT in Applied Photonics held its conference on 1st July 2024 at Heriot-Watt University, at which we formally launched our new ESPRC Doctoral Training

On Friday 3rd May 2024 the CDT in Applied Photonics held a half-day training workshop followed by lunch for academic and industrial supervisors of current

On 11th April 2024 our third-year students showcased their simple, but ingenious and creative designs to capture the interest of visitors during the ‘Meet the

Congratulations to our Research Engineers – Gary Quinn – who had a successful viva in January 2024, and Natalie Bruce and Rachel Cannon, who passed

We are excited to be able to announce that the CDT Applied Photonics has been awarded with funding from the UK Research Council (EPSRC) to

Profile: CDT Alumna Dr Aneta Lisowska Enrolled 2014, Toshiba Medical Visualization Systems/Heriot-Watt University The 4-year journey through EngD programme now seems like it happened in

Congratulations to our Research Engineers – Victor Juanco Muller and Alexandra Lee – who had successful vivas in December 2023, and Stavros Misopoulos – who had

On Wednesday 6th September 2023, the CDT in Applied Photonics held an in-person Welcome Event at Heriot-Watt University for our 12 new students.  Supervisors joined

Photonics Hackathon As part of SUSSP Sensing and Spectroscopy, we were pleased to introduce our first ever Photonics Hackathon. This 12-hour event challenged delegates to

In July 2023 we hosted our fourth international summer school. This year’s theme, Photonic Sensing and Spectroscopy, brought postgraduate research students and early career researchers

Congratulations to our Research Engineers – Natalie Flaherty and Nicholas Smith – who had successful vivas in May 2023.

Profile: CDT Alumna Dr Alison O’Neil Enrolled 2011, Canon Medical Research Europe/Heriot-Watt University I undertook an EngD at Canon Medical Research Europe in collaboration with

Profile: CDT Alumna Dr Hollie Wright Enrolled 2016, Renishaw/Heriot-Watt University Enrolling with the Centre for Doctoral Training in Applied Photonics was the best career decision