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Congratulations to PES CDT student, Liv Hawkins, who has been awarded a 2026 Optics and Photonics Scholarship by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, for potential contributions to the field of optics and photonics.

Liv Hawkins, a doctoral researcher on the Photonic and Electronic Systems CDT programme, was recently interviewed by her former school, George Watson’s College, to mark the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. The insightful interview highlights Liv’s journey into science and the influence Watson's had on shaping her career.

A recently published scientific study, led by Dr Samuel Prescott at UCL, in collaboration with a research team at Sandia National Laboratories (USA), demonstrates a metasurface platform enabling spectral alignment of emission wavelength for a pair of sparse quantum dots, while also improving the emitted photon outcoupling efficiency.

We are delighted to congratulate Professor Steven Lee on receiving the prestigious RMS Scientific Achievement Award 2025. A global leader in single-molecule microscopy for biological discovery, Steven has played a pivotal role in the CEPS and PES CDT programmes through his collaborative research and student supervision.

We are excited to see our very own PhD student, Michael Doherty, captain this year's UCL University Challenge team, confidently leading the team to victory in their first match against SOAS with a score of 210 to 170.