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Graduates from the Centre’s four year PhD programme will lead new industries combining electronic and photonic systems. Following the Government's announcement on 4th February 2019, the new CDT is recruiting for MRes/PhD students now!

Following a CDT competition, CDT PhD students Adam Funnell and Tom Gerard from UCL Optical Networks Lab have had their winning designs turned into new exhibits to communicate the story of global communications to the general public at Cornwall's Telegraph Museum.

CDT PhD student Eleni Bohacek recently exhibited her experimental Mars Rover that she has been building based on a disability scooter at the internationally famous Farnborough Air Show.

Jounal paper on "Switching of Radiation Force on Optically Trapped Microparticles through Photochromic Reactions of Pyranoquinazoline Derivatives" is recognised as ACS Editors Choice in the Journal of Physical Chemistry.

Marcus Fantham, a PhD student at Cambridge presented his 3D data sharing software tool, published in Nature Photonics last year, at a major conference in Germany and Singapore to the microscopy academic community. He now also has 2 recent Nature Communications papers!