Awards and Grants

As Co-PI, I applied and won funding for an Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) for 2026. I will work with PI Prof William Wadsworth and a deep tech company to demonstrate innovation in high-power laser delivery through multi-mode hollow-core fibres (HCFs) and produce HCFs for the comparatively unexplored commercialisation areas of laser delivery and instrumentation.

I co-authored and steered an application for funds to purchase cutting edge research infrastructure for our optical fibre fabrication facility.

The Peter Troughton Research Staff Prize is awarded on behalf of Senate by the Peter Troughton Research Staff Prize Committee to a postdoctoral member of research staff for outstanding performance in their duties. I was one of 5 finalists in 2024.

This is a major scientific poster competition and exhibition which has been held in Parliament since 1997. I applied and was awarded the opportunity to present my research as an early career scientist to members of the Houses of Parliament, and other invited policy makers. 

I won funds from the Public Engagement Unit at the University of Bath in order to build an Optical Fibre Chandelier out of our waste preform materials. This project helped seed funding for the preliminary work in order to build towards my first independently supervised undergraduate projected. I worked with fantastic undergraduate students who successfully designed and built the chandelier in order to display it at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition in 2024.

For 3D printing of personal protective equipment for the local community in Southampton. Together with the Southampton Maker's Space, we printed, assembled and delivered 1000 units of face shields to care home and hospital workers in the local community. We also raised £1,700 to run it.