2019 Latest News
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.......