PhD pages

PhD projects pages

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On this page you can find a selection of current and past PhD projects in the Applied Optics Group.

Current PhD projects

Student	Project title	Supervisors	Sponsors
Fernando Perez-Cota	Nano scaled transducers for detection of Brillouin scattering in transmission on biological cells	Matt Clark, Kevin Webb and Richard Smith	Conacyt
David Jung	Endoscopic, Spectroscopic Imaging of the Middle Ear	John Birchall, Chung See, John Crowe and Mike Somekh
Son Nguyen	Effects of moisturizers on human skin impedance measurement in vivo	Barrie Hayes-Gill and Steve Morgan
Paul Marrow	Advanced spatially resolved acousto-spectroscopic imaging	Steve Sharples, Matt Clark and David Wright
Oluwatosin Bandele	Multi-channel & multi-hop free space optical communication	Andy Phillips and Malcolm Woolfson
Alex Johnstone	Microfluidic Systems for Neuronal Cultures	Noah Russell and Tomas Bellamy
Victoria Ageeva	Endoscopic CHOTs for on-wing inspection	Matt Clark, Theodosia Stratoudaki and Richard Smith
Sidahmed Abayzeed	Plasmonic Detection of Bioelectrical signals	Chung See, Richard Smith, Kevin Webb and Mike Somekh
Qimei Zhang	Ultrasound modulated optical tomography using contrast agents	Steve Morgan and Melissa Mather
Solomon Idinyang	Development of automated liquid handling system for micro-volume injection	Noah Russell and Sara Goodacre
James Williams	Linguistic Theory and Neuronal Computation	Noah Russell and Derek Irwin
Jiri Hromadka	Developing of multiparameter fibre-optic sensor system	Sergyi Korposh and Matt Clark
Matthew Butler	Motion artifact reduction for reflection mode photoplethysmography	Paul Rodmell, Barrie Hayes-Gill and John Crowe
James Carpenter	Low bandwidth laser Doppler blood flowmetry	John Crowe and Barrie Hayes-Gill
Mina Mossayebi	Use of plasmonic and photonic structures to enhance optical trapping	Eric Larkins and Amanda Wright
Aishah Mustapha	Optical and ultrasound techniques for probing and modulating the nano-mechanical properties of live cells	Amanda Wright and Melissa Mather
Junaid Ahmed	Ultrasound modulated tomography for high sensitivity, high spatial resolution 3D imaging	Steve Morgan and Melissa Mather
Victoria Ciampani	-	Matt Clark and Kevin Webb
Jethro Coulson	SRAS Technology Development	Steve Sharples, Mike Somekh and Chung See
Tiva Eftekhar Khansari	Research into the optimisation of spectral quality to improve plant growth and development	Barrie Hayes-Gill, John Crowe and Erik Murchie
Rafael Fuentes	Nanoparticle acoustic transducers	Matt Clark, Richard Smith and Steve Sharples
David Gomez	Fibre optic sensing in intelligent textiles	Steve Morgan, Barrie Hayes-Gill and Sergiy Korposh
Anas Hashmi	Differential ultrasonic calorimeter for accurate measurement of thermal losses in machinery	Alexander Kalashnikov and Roger Light
Mohamad Anas Helal	Simulation and design of external cavity lasere diodes for industrial applications	Eric Larkins, Andy Philips and Steve Bull
Francisco Ulises Hernandez	Development of optical fibre sensors for novel endotracheal tubes	Steve Morgan, Barrie Hayes-Gill and Sergiy Korposh
Nitzan Herzog	Fast neurmodulatory switching in neuronal culture	Noah Russell and Mark Fromhold
Colin Horne	Modelling of the electrically stimulated ANF	Alexander Kalashnikov, Bernhard Seeber and Chris Sumner
Carmel Howe	Novel sensor technology for detecting neural activity	Noah Russell and Mark Fromhold
Rohan Nandkumar Kakade	Noise analysis of advance microscopy	Andy Phillips, Mike Somekh and John Walker
Chong Liu	A combined optical and electrical textile for non-invasive physiological monitoring	Barrie Hayes-Gill
Mohammed Hossein Mani	Synchronisation of vascular ultrasonic scans with heart activity using ECG signals	Alexander Kalashnikov and Barrie Hayes-Gill
Afamefuna Maduka Mbah	Novel and hybrid fibre and wireless optical access networks performance evaluation	Andy Phillips and John Walker
Shiemaa Sidahmed Sidahmed	Heart rate monitoring on babies who need to be resuscitated	Barrie Hayes-Gill, Alexander Kalashnikov and Roger Light
Mitra Soorani	Needle size diagnostic tool	Matt Clark, Kevin Webb, Sergiy Korposh and Jon Aylott
Nutthawut Suchato	Ultrasonic instrumentations for automated assessment of corrosion in sea vessels	Alexander Kalashnikov and Steve Sharples
Bo Tan	Non-destructive testing for thermal barrier coating	Steve Sharples, Matt Clark and Xianghui Hou
Ross Thomson	Human Factor Medical Devices	Jennifer Martin and Sarah Sharples
Sinead Tobin	Nano ultrasonics ...	Matt Clark and Richard Smith
Wan Suhaimizan Wan Zaki	Design and Development of textile based fibre optics sensor for biomedical applications	Steve Morgan, Barrie Hayes-Gill, Shen Sun and Sergiy Korposh
Nicholas Wells	Bioinspired nano network signal extraction & insertion	Andy Phillips, Chung See and Melissa Mather
Zhuge Yan	-	John Walker
Fan Zhang	Modelling of ultrasound modulated optical tomography	Steve Morgan and John Crowe
Pieter Smid	Adaptive Optics in Microscopy	Amanda Wright, Melissa Mather

Previous PhD projects

Student	Project title	Thesis	Year
Rikesh Patel	Ultrastable heterodyne interferometry using a modulated light camera	PDF	2014