Many congratulations to Dr Failla, who was recently awarded one of the Faculty of Science doctoral thesis prizes. Well done, Michele!

We welcome Arturo to the group, where he has just started a postdoc with Emma. Arturo recently completed his PhD in Enrique Castro Camus's group at CIO, Mexico.

We'd like to welcome Qiushao (Sarah) Sun to the group in Warwick. She is completing her PhD at CU Hong Kong, in Emma's group, and will be visiting the department for a year.

Our work on the conductivity of double-walled carbon nanotubes wrapped in xylan, a type of hemicellulose, has recently been published in Nanotechnology. Importantly the tubes were efficiently dispersed in water, and had excellent conductive properties. The hemicellulose was shown to not seriously interfere with the inter-tube conductance. This work was led by our collaborators in Finland at Jyvaskyla. Thanks to Maria & Connor for their efforts on our FTIR and THz-TDS results.

Congratulations to Connor on the publication of his recent work in a special issue of J. Phys. D: Applied Physics devoted to the applications of ultrafast spectroscopy. In this work we demonstrate that terahertz electromagnons can be used to directly probe the nature of a phase transition between magnetically ordered phases in the improper ferroelectric CuO.

Funded PhD positions are available to work with Emma MacPherson on "Fast Terahertz Imaging and Spectroscopy", and with James Lloyd-Hughes on "Ultrafast terahertz spectroscopy of novel perovskite photovoltaics". Please get in touch if you are interested in a PhD or MSc by Research in the group. These are funded studentships lasting 3.5 years, and are available to UK and EU students.

Welcome to Emma MacPherson, who has just joined the Physics Department. Emma has moved from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where she has led her terahertz group for 9 years, and is setting up her new labs and group in Warwick. She was also awarded recently a prestigeous Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit award.

Our recent work on creating a terahertz time-domain spectrometer with an arbitrarily rotatable, linear polarisation state has just been published in Scientific Reports. Congratulations to Connor and Michele on their work on this article. Read more here.

Many congratulations to Michele, who successfully defended his PhD thesis recently. He will start a postdoc at TU Delft in October, working with Prof. Laurens Siebbles.

Well done to Michele & to Connor for presenting posters at this year's Optical Terahertz Science and Technology conference.