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18 March 2015
Professor Hywel Morgan receives prestigious Wolfson Merit Award
Professor Hywel Morgan
Related Links:
• Bio-devices case study
• Nanoelectronics and Nanotechnology Research Group
The Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of science, has awarded Professor Hywel Morgan the Wolfson Research Merit Award for his outstanding research work.Jointly funded by the Wolfson Foundation and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), the scheme aims to provide...
13 March 2015
Optical fibres light the way for brain-like computing
Chalcogenide glass sample
Related Links:
• Chalcogenide Advanced Manufacturing Partnership website
• Optoelectronics Research Centre website
• Centre for Disruptive Photonic Technologies, NTU, website
Researchers from the Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC), part of the University of Southampton's Zepler Institute, and Centre for Disruptive Photonic Technologies (CDPT) at Nanyang...
16 February 2015
Roadshow engages with advanced materials
The ChAMP team are are advancing the applications of speciality glasses. Come along and meet them and a host of advanced materials suppliers.
Related Links:
• Photonex Southampton website
• ChAMP project website
The Photonex Southampton/ChAMP event on 9 March 2015 will bring together the Photonex photonics technology roadshow, a commercial exhibition of 30 companies, with a one-day conference to launch...
16 February 2015
Director named in Debrett's 500 most influential people
Professor Sir David Payne
Announced on Sunday 25th January 2015 in The Sunday Times, the Debrett’s 500 recognises the most influential and inspiring people living and working in Britain today. ‘It acknowledges power, talent, hard work, brilliance, originality, persistence, courage and, occasionally, luck: in short, achievement.’Sir David has been described in the list as 'a colossus in the science behind internet development' and listed among physicists and engineers such as: Sir Andre Geim at the...
06 February 2015
Prof Vlatko Vedral opens our Quantum Science Distinguished Lecture Series
Professor Vlatko Vedral gives a distinguished lecture on 11 February 2015.
Related Links:
• Find out more about the lecture series
• Professor Vlatko Vedral's website
• Reserve your place at Prof Vedral's lecture
We are pleased to announce Professor Vlatko Vedral as our first speaker in the Zepler Institute’s Quantum Science Distinguished Lecture Series. Professor Vedral will present ‘Probes...
19 December 2014
Zepler Institute researchers to share in £20 million to advance the UK’s manufacturing capability
Chalcogenides being produced in the Zepler Institute Cleanroom Complex.
Related Links:
• Optoelectronics Research Centre website
• Electronics and Computer Science website
• Printed electronics case study
• Novel and Compound Glass Cleanrooms
Researchers at the University of Southampton’s Zepler Institute are to share in £20 million of funding to advance the UK’s manufacturing...

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