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Optoelectronics

2024 Rank Prizes awarded in London

Over 100 guests came together in July to celebrate the achievements of our 2024 Rank Prize winners.

08 July 2024
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Optoelectronics

16 students to complete summer projects

Students on our Undergrad Vacation grant will be exploring a range of topics from free school meals and diet quality to visual discomfort and neurodiversity.

18 June 2024
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Optoelectronics

First Lord Selborne PhD Scholarship awarded in Optoelectronics

Professor Hannah Smithson has won funding to host the first Lord Selborne PhD Scholarship in Optoelectronics with a project on human colour vision.

14 May 2024
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Optoelectronics

Alison Noble on women in engineering

On International Women’s Day 2024, we talk to Optoelectronics committee member and Professor of Biomedical Engineering Alison Noble about gender equality in engineering.

08 March 2024
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Winners of the 2024 Rank Prizes announced

The prestigious Prizes have been awarded for research into type 2 diabetes and retinal imaging.

14 November 2023
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Optoelectronics

Student spotlight: Lucy Hotchkiss

Genetics student Lucy Hotchkiss evaluated smart tools for agriculture as part of her Rank Prize Undergrad vacation placement at the University of Sussex.

26 September 2023
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Optoelectronics

Celebrating the legacy of Horace Barlow

A symposium was held in honour of Horace Barlow (1921-2020), a former committee member, and the continued influence of his work on modern neuroscience.

15 March 2023
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Nutrition
Optoelectronics

“There is a mistaken belief that science is a man’s world. This is certainly not true.”

To mark International Women’s Day, we talk to Dr. Laura Dearden about inspiring the next generation of female scientists.

08 March 2023
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Optoelectronics

Undergrad Yijia Cai wins prize for her work on optical frequency combs

Yijia Cai won the prize for the report she submitted following her Rank Prize summer placement at UCL Electronic and Electric Engineering.

01 February 2023
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Optoelectronics

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New insights into brain plasticity

How do we make decisions? Professor Zoe Kourtzi provides answers from neuroscience in her 2022 Rank Lecture on brain plasticity.

24 January 2023
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Optoelectronics

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Rank Prizes awarded

The winners of the 2022 Rank Prizes were formally awarded at a special 50th anniversary prize ceremony in London on 4th July.

11 July 2022
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Optoelectronics

Helen Gleeson on women and physics

In honour of International Women’s Day we spoke to Professor Helen Gleeson about her work to improve gender balance in physics.

07 March 2022
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Optoelectronics

Research Visionary Award winners announced

Six researchers have been selected to give their perspectives on the next 50 years of scientific endeavour in nutrition and optoelectronics.

04 November 2021
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Optoelectronics

Solar cell pioneers win 2022 Rank Prize for Optoelectronics

The prize is awarded to seven internationally leading scientists who have pioneered the development of new solar cell technology based on perovskite semiconductors.

28 September 2021
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Optoelectronics

Winners of Seeing Science photography competition announced

In early 2020 we asked students and academics in optoelectronics (including visual science) and nutrition to send us photographs that would give us a fresh perspective on scientific research.

19 May 2021
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Optoelectronics

Winners of undergrad vacation grants announced

We are delighted to announce that we have awarded 20 undergrad vacation grants this year: 13 to nutrition students and seven to optoelectronics students.

27 April 2021
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Optoelectronics

Remembering Isamu Akasaki

Akasaki shared the 1998 Rank Prize with Prof H. Amano, Dr S. Nakamura, and Prof J. I. Pankove; it was awarded for contributions to the invention of nitride based blue and green semiconductor diode lasers.

01 April 2021
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Optoelectronics

Second round of COVID-19 hardship grants now open

We are pleased to announce the launch of a second round of £5,000 hardship grants open to final-year PhD students in nutrition and optoelectronics.

30 March 2021
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Optoelectronics

Announcing the Research Visionary Awards

Over the past 50 years, advances in the science and application of nutrition and optoelectronics have impacted many aspects of human life.

18 March 2021
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Nutrition
Optoelectronics

Remembering Lord Selborne

Lord Selborne was the Chairman of the Rank Prize Funds for nearly 30 years, retiring only in 2015.

12 February 2021
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Optoelectronics

Professor Donal Bradley elected to the National Academy of Inventors

Professor Donal Bradley (KAUST), the Chair of the Rank Prize Funds Optoelectronics Committee, has been named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).

08 December 2020
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Optoelectronics

Professor Anya Hulbert and Professor Martin Dawson join Optoelectronics Committee

We are pleased to welcome two new members to our Optoelectronics Committee: Professor Anya Hulbert MD PhD and Professor Martin Dawson FInsP FOSA FIEEE FRSE.

20 July 2020
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Optoelectronics

Professor Dame Julia Higgins and Professor Cyrus Cooper join Board of Trustees

We are pleased to welcome two new members to our Board of Trustees: Professor Dame Julia Higgins DBE FRS FREng and Professor Cyrus Cooper OBE, MA, DM, FRCP, FFPH, FMedSci.

19 February 2020
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