2019 Latest News
Professor Lewys Jones awarded prestigious Royal Society-SFI University Research Fellowship
School of Physics Professor Lewys Jones awarded €722,939 for his project Retrofitting small-scale, high-impact, modular innovations for next-generation transmission electron microscopy (RetroTEM)......
Researchers uncover new indicator to help in the selection of 2D materials for nanotechnology
This may have significant consequences for the viability and roll-out of mass-produced nanotechnology based on these extremely thin, exotic particles. The findings of the research provides new opportunities for rapidly identifying industrially mass-producible 2D materials..........
Opening of the I-LOFAR Education Centre
School of Physics, Trinity College Dublin, Birr Scientific & Heritage Foundation, and Offaly County Council announce the opening of the I-LOFAR Education Centre and launch of the Astronomical Midlands Schools and Public Engagement Programme, with very special guest Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell........
Dr. Eoin Carley leads international team in breakthrough on how plasma behaves in the suns atmosphere
The scientists used large radio telescopes and ultraviolet cameras on a NASA spacecraft to better understand the exotic but poorly understood “fourth state of matter”. Known as plasma, this matter could hold the key to developing safe, clean and efficient nuclear energy generators on Earth.......
School of Physics Professor Jonathan Coleman features on TCD Talks Podcast
Check out the latest TCD Talks podcast, a fascinating chat with award-winning Professor Jonathan Coleman who talks all things nanomaterials and how they make things better, faster, stronger and cheaper......
Prof. Igor Shvets and Prof. Stefano Sanvito receive Irish Research Council Advanced Laureate Awards
The IRC Advanced Laureate Awards scheme was launched in 2018 to support exceptional researchers in conducting frontier basic (blue-sky) research that pushes the boundaries of our current knowledge..........
Professor John Michael David (Mike) Coey, FRS, is awarded the Prestigious Max Born Medal and Prize
The School of Physics, Trinity College Dublin, congratulates Mike Coey on the Max Born Medal and Prize. This is a prestigious award by the Institute of Physics and the German Physical Society (DPG) made on alternate years to a physicist working either in Germany or in Great Britain or Ireland.........
School of Physics spin-out Electrical Analytics have been featured in this year’s Sunday Business Post list of 100 Hot Start-ups
Trinity College Dublin spinout Electrical Analytics maps the energy consumption within large campus settings using AI and data analytics together with its custom monitoring hardware. ........
Helium Ion Beam Causes Sheets of MoS2 to Twist
A team of researchers in the Schools of Physics and Chemistry, together with the Advanced Microscopy Laboratory in CRANN and AMBER, have published a paper in the Journal of Applied Physics showing that a high energy helium ion beam can be used to cause twisting of two adjacent layers of MoS2.. .......
LOFAR Radio Telescope Reveals Secrets of Solar Storms
This week, an international team of scientists from Trinity College Dublin, the University of Helsinki, and the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies announced a major discovery on the very nature of solar storms in the journal Nature Astronomy.........
Quantum research heating up at TCD
Dr. Francesca Pietracaprina was awarded a prestigous Marie Curie Fellowship to work in Prof. John Goold QuSys group on the topic of statistical mechanics of disordered systems. The award worth 185,000 euro brings valuable expertise to the group focusing on the theory of quantum technologies in Dublin which is currently expanding at rapid pace. .......
Prof. Stephen Dooley awarded SFI/EI Technology Innovation Development Award (TIDA)
Professor Stephen Dooley has been awarded €122,213 for his research, which attempts to create petrol and diesel from household and plant waste. .......
Light Pollution Project Win at BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition
Two students from Kenmare brought home two prizes from the BT Young Scientist competition for a light pollution project this weekend. Prof. Brian Espey of the School of Physics provided advice and encouragement for the project which encompassed both measurements in the centre of every major Munster town as well as a model of the light emission based on population estimates........
Scutoid cells discovered in soap bubbles
News of the scutoid discovery came to foam physicists Stefan Hutzler of Trinity College Dublin and Adil Mughal at Aberystwyth University just as they were both leaving for an annual scientific get-together in Northern Ireland........
Dr. Ramesh Babu and Prof. Jonathan Coleman from School of Physics both awarded Inventors of the year at the Trinity Innovation Awards 2018
The Inventors award is presented to those academics whose innovative research has led to the creation of intellectual property and has subsequently licensed to Industry.......
School of Physics Principal Investigator, Professor Jonathan Coleman, features twice on Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited 2018 researcher list
This list recognizes world-class researchers selected for their exceptional research performance, demonstrated by production of multiple highly cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in Web of Science.......
Prof Aline Vidotto has won prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant awards valued at €2 million.
Project ASTROFLOW will see Dr Vidotto use her expertise in stellar wind theory and 3D simulations to produce next-gen models that account for the major underlying physical processes of atmospheric losses in exoplanets.......