Dept News
75th Diamond Conference
The 75th UK Diamond Research Conference was held at the University of Warwick from 7th to 10th July 2025, bringing together over 120 delegates from academia and industry to explore the latest advancements in diamond science and technology.
Winner of the Royal Astronomical Society Keith Runcorn Thesis Prize
Congratulations to Sihui Zhong who has been awarded the Royal Astronomical Society Keith Runcorn Thesis Prize 2024 for her PhD thesis titled “Decayless Kink Oscillations of Solar Coronal Loops”, completed at CFSA under the supervision of Professor Valery Nakariakov.
The Keith Runcorn Thesis Prize is awarded to the best doctoral thesis in geophysics on an annual basis.
Recent degrees awarded
Congratulations to all those who have formally been awarded Doctor of Philosophy in Physics:
Jorge Fernández Fernández
Stefan Katundi
Billy Shrive
Daniel Swinnock
Congratulations to those who have been awarded a Master of Science (by Research) in Physics:
Adam Counsell
Taf Zivave
PhD student selected to present at House of Commons
Ananya Singh, a third-year PhD student under the supervision of Dr Wing Ying Chow, was selected to present her research at the prestigious STEM for Britain event held at the House of Commons on March 11, 2025. Her research focuses on the 'Development of solid-state NMR approaches for probing fungal and human matrices with relevance to human disease.'