A belated welcome to Seb and farewell to David

Life events took priority in the latter part of 2022, so I failed to post some important news in a timely manner - apologies!

Firstly, a warm welcome to Sebastian Robarts who joined the group in October as a PhD student. Seb graduated from Heriot-Watt University in 2022 with a BSc in Mathematical Physics. His undergraduate project built upon work completed as part of a Carnegie vacation scholarship, in parallelised full-field modelling of OPO cavities, expanding applications of the model to highly dispersive systems and birefringent phase matching. During his PhD he will be working to further enhance computational modelling of devices for ultrafast photonics and quantum optics, with a view to optimising the design process for systems producing bespoke spectra.

Second, we bid farewell to Dr David Bajek who has left Heriot-Watt University to join the University of Strathclyde as a Senior Research Fellow at SCAPA, the Scottish Centre for the Application of Plasma-based Accelerators. We wish David all the best in his future career!