Undergraduates win funding to do research over the summer
Thursday 24 May 2012
Four undergraduates will be doing research projects in research groups in the Department this summer.
Three of the Department's undergraduates, Zoe Bushell, Sean Gillespie and Tom Wilson, have been awarded funds from the UK research council EPSRC, to work over the summer in the Department. This funding is very competitive, the University can only 10 students per year. Zoe and Tom will be working in the group of Stephen Sweeney, while Sean will be working with Richard Sear. Zoe and Tom will be studying photovoltaic cells and infrared lasers while Sean's work will look at how the disease Muscular Dystrophy damages muscles.
The University of Sussex undergraduate Harry Sansom is also working in the Department over the summer. He has been awarded funds from a collaborative network of south-east physics departments called SEPnet. He will be working in the group of Joe Keddie, on making microlenses for solar panels.