PhD pages

PhD projects pages

---

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
Paul Marrow	Advanced spatially resolved acousto-spectroscopic imaging	Steve Sharples, Matt Clark and David Wright	Rolls-Royce
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
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 Sergyi 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 Ledezma	Development of optical fibre sensors for novel endotracheal tubes	Steve Morgan, Barrie Hayes-Gill and Sergyi Korposh
Chong Liu	A combined optical and electrical textile for non-invasive physiological monitoring	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, Sergyi 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
Wan Suhaimizan Wan Zaki	Design and Development of textile based fibre optics sensor for biomedical applications	Steve Morgan, Barrie Hayes-Gill, Shen Sun and Sergyi Korposh
Nicholas Wells	Bioinspired nano network signal extraction & insertion	Andy Phillips, Chung See and Melissa Mather
Pieter Smid	Adaptive Optics in Microscopy	Amanda Wright, Chung See
LiangLiang Liu	Fibre Optical Sensor Modified with Metal Organic Frameworks for Biomedical application	Steve Morgan, Sergyi Korposh
Mohammed Al-Badri	Development of a System for High Resolution Doppler Ultrasound Heat rate Monitoring	Roger Light, John Crowe

Previous PhD projects and theses

Student	Project title	Thesis	Year
Jiri Hromadka	Volatile organic compounds sensing with use of fibre optic sensor with long period grating and mesoporous nano-scale coating.	PDF	2016
David Jung	Optical assessment of middle ear inflammation	PDF	2016
Sidahmed Abayzeed	Responsivity of the differential-intensity surface plasmon resonance instrument.	PDF	2016
Victoria Ageeva	Endoscopic CHOTs for On-wing Inspection	PDF	2016
Rohan Nandkumar Kakade	Improved resolution and signal-to-noise ratio performance of a confocal fluorescence microscope	PDF	2016
Qimei Zhang	Ultrasound mediated luminescence tomography using contrast agents	PDF	2016
Son Nguyen	The effects of skin moisturizers using electrical impedance spectroscopy	PDF	2016
Fernando Perez Cota	Opto-acoustic thin-film transducers for imaging of Brillouin oscillations on living cells	PDF	2016
Jethro Coulson	SRAS Technology Development		2016
Jing Wang	Highly Sensitive Real-Time Multipoint Kinetic Detection Using Surface Plasmon Resonance Technique with Custom CMOS Camera	PDF	2014
James Carpenter	Low bandwidth laser doppler blood flowmetry	PDF	2014
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