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	Rolls-Royce
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
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
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	Measurement modelling and meta-coordination in cellular communities employing optogenetics tools	Matt Clark, Kevin Webb and Jamie Twycross
Jethro Coulson	SRAS Technology Development	Steve Sharples, Mike Somekh and Chung See	Renishaw
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	Roger Light and Steve Sharples
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]
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	Steve Sharples and Roger Light
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 and theses

Student	Project title	Thesis	Year
Rikesh Patel	Ultrastable heterodyne interferometry using a modulated light camera	PDF	2014
Sheikh Mohammod Ali	Ultrasonic and thermo-kinetic characterization of curing epoxy resin	PDF	2013
Bei Zhang	Confocal surface plasmon microscopic sensing	PDF	2013
Samuel Osei Achamfuo-Yeboah	Design and implementation of a CMOS modulated light camera	PDF	2012
Rob Ellwood	The effect of microstructure and fatigue on the acoustoelastic response of aerospace materials	PDF	2012
Audrey Kah Ching Huong	Spectroscopic analysis of scattering media via different quantification techniques	PDF	2012
Wenqi Li	Laser ultrasonic method for determination of crystallographic orientation of large grain metals by spatially resolved acoustic spectroscopy (SRAS)	PDF	2012
Suejit Pechprasarn	Analysis of sensitivity and resolution in plasmonic microscopes	PDF	2012
Chin-Jung Chuang	Proximity projection grating structured illumination microscopy	PDF	2011
John Himsworth	Linear array CMOS detectors for laser doppler blood flow imaging	PDF	2011
Ahmet Arca	The design and optimisation of nanophotonic devices using the Finite Element Method	PDF	2010
Martin Mienczakowski	Advanced ultrasonic NDE of composite airframe components: physics, modelling and technology	PDF	2010
Lin Wang	High-resolution structured illumination solid immersion fluorescence microscopy	PDF	2010
Christopher Ward	Novel NDE techniques in the power generation industry (EngD thesis)	PDF	2010
Yu Huang	Morphology dependent voltage sensitivity of gold nanostructures	PDF	2010
Gerard Byrne	Total internal reflection microscopy studies on colloidal particle endocytosis by living cells	PDF	2009
Peiliang Dong	On-chip ultra-fast data acquisition system for optical scanning acoustic microscopy using 0.35um CMOS technology	PDF	2009
Qun Zhu	Rotating orthogonal polarization imaging	PDF	2009
Ian Collison	Measurement of material nonlinearity using laser ultrasound	PDF	2008
Roger Light	Design and implementation of an integrating modulated light camera	PDF	2008
José Hernández	Statistics of aberrations in polycrystalline materials	PDF	2007
Mengxiong Li	5 GHz optical front end in 0.35um CMOS	PDF	2007
Richard Smith	Optical measurement of ultra fine linewidths using artificial neural networks	PDF	2006
Shihong Jiang	Non-scanning fluorescence confocal microscopy using laser speckle illumination	PDF	2005
Graham Stabler	High resolution wide field surface plasmon microscopy	PDF	2005
Boon Hean Pui	CMOS optical centroid processor for an integrated Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor	PDF	2004
Ian Stockford	Characterisation of layered scattering media using polarized light	PDF	2004
Steve Sharples	All-optical scanning acoustic microscope	PDF	2003