Congratulations to Arooj Khalid and Diana Galiakhmetova who became runner-up and winner of the PhD Poster Competition at the AiPT Open Labs event!
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Open Research Award 2023 and Aston Three Minute Thesis Competition
Published on Jul 7, 2023
Congratulation to Diana Galiakhmetova as the winner of the Open Research Study 2023 and the winner of the Three Minute Competition!
The Open Research Award judging panel were impressed with the winning case studies, which promoted best Open Research practice across different disciplines, and articulated the motivations and barriers faced.
Also, Diana became a winner of the Three Minute Thesis Competition at Aston University and will present our group, AiPT, EPS, Aston University at the national level.
https://www.aston.ac.uk/graduate-school/three-minute-thesis
BiOS Student 3-Minute Poster Presentations
Published on Jul 7, 2023
Congratulations to Diana Galiakhmetova, the winner of the SPIE BiOS 3-minute poster presentations 2023.
Diana Presented her work "Linear and nonlinear photoconversion of monomeric and dimeric DrBphP bacterial phytochrome variants" and won first place in the conference Photonics West 2023, San Francisco, USA.
https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/bios-3mp?SSO=1
EPSRC grant
Published on Jul 7, 2023
Prof. Edik Rafailov (AIPT) has been awarded a prestigious 3 and half year EPSRC grant worth £957k. This is collaborative work with UCL (Aston part is over £700k). The main target of the project is to develop the clear and simple diagnostic tools for structural brain recognition and investigate the THz radiation treatment properties on bio-materials.
Edik Rafailov will host two MSC fellows, with projects focused on: (i) multimodal hyperspectral system for imaging of biological tissue, and (ii) mid-infrared laser system for high-throughput bio-printing.
Published on Jul 7, 2023
4 year H2020 grant
Published on Jul 7, 2023
Prof. Edik Rafailov (AIPT) as a partner of a large consortium has been awarded a prestigious 4 year H2020 grant worth €5.2M. This is collaborative work with 12 partners (Aston part over €610k). The main target of the project is to develop a world record power 2.5kW laser providing from picosecond down to femtoseconds pulses at repetition rates up to 1GHz with excellent beam quality and brought to the market at highly competitive costs enabling widespread industrial uptake.
Professor Edik Rafailov has been elected as a Fellow of Optica (formerly OSA)
Published on Jul 7, 2023
PLATFORMA - Engineering Peripheral Nervous System
Published on Jul 10, 2020
Prof. Edik Rafailov would be coordinating this new project partnered with groups in Germany and Belgium which aims to produce world's first innervated human skin tissue models to be used for testing screening and therapeutic applications. These models can be requisite for assessing neurotoxicity of of cosmetics, pollutants and various remedial applications like wound healing, transdermal drug delivery etc.