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Celebrating International Women’s Day – CDT Alumna Aneta Lisowska
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

Celebrating International Women’s Day – CDT Alumna Alison O’Neil
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

Celebrating International Women’s Day – CDT Alumna Dr Hollie Wright
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

Celebrating International Women’s Day – CDT Student Louise Finlayson
Profile: CDT Student Louise Finlayson Enrolled 2019, NHS/University of St Andrews Project title: Fluorescence imaging, diagnosis, and photodynamic therapy for brain tumours Supervisors: Dr. Kenneth Wood,

UN International Day of Women & Girls in Science
UN International Day of Women & Girls in Science On February 11, UN International Day of Woman & Girls in Science, we celebrate our incredible

CDT Conference and 21st Anniversary Celebration
CDT Conference and 21st Anniversary Celebration On 28 June 2022 we were delighted to welcome over 100 delegates including our students, alumni, supervisors, former staff,
Viva Success
Congratulations to our Research Engineer – Vladimirs Horjkovs – who had a successful viva in October 2022.
Welcome Event for new students
On Monday 5th September 2022, the CDT in Applied Photonics held an in-person Welcome Event at Heriot-Watt University for our new students. Supervisors joined us
Sellafield Workshop in Robotics and Photonics
Sellafield Workshop in Robotics and Photonics This joint workshop was organised by the EPSRC CDTs in Applied Photonics and Robotics and Autonomous Systems with representatives
Workshop Events
In-Person Workshops In March and April 2022, we were fortunate to restart some of our in-person workshops giving our students the opportunity to get together

2020/21 Annual Report now available
The Latest CDT in Applied Photonics Report is Now Available Find out about the industrially connected research undertaken by our Research Engineers. Our latest annual

Heriot-Watt MacFarlane Prize Winner 2020 – Dr Mariastefania De Vido
Dr Mariastefania De Vido, a recent graduate of the EPSRC CDT in Applied Photonics, has been awarded the Heriot-Watt University MacFarlane Prize 2020. The MacFarlane Prize