News - Awards

  • 1st Prize Student Poster for Ann-Marie

    Congratulations to Ann-Marie, one of our third-year PhD students. Ann-Marie was awarded first prize for the Best Student Poster Competition at the High Power Laser (HPL) Christmas Conference held 18th...

  • Editor-in-Chief Choice Award winner

    Congratulations to Phil Bradford who has been awarded the Editor-in-Chief Choice Award in the High Power Laser Science and Engineering journal, for the paper titled “EMP control and characterization on high-power...

  • PhD Showcase Poster Prize Winners

    Congratulations to Sam Gibson and to Michail Anastopoulos Tzanis who both won prizes for their posters at the Culham PhD Showcase event which took place on 22 and 23 July...

  • Three Minute Thesis Winner

    Congratulations to Will Trickey who recently won the University of York Three Minute Thesis competition with his talk titled ‘Harnessing the Power of the Sun with High Power Lasers’. Will...

  • Rutherford Plasma Physics Communication Prize

    In April, the Fusion CDT supported ‘A Glass of Seawater’ podcast won the Rutherford Plasma Physics Communication Prize for its success in bringing plasma physics to new audiences. The prize...

  • First annual prizes awarded during Fusion Frontiers Week 2019

    The annual Fusion Frontiers and Interfaces workshop took place at York Plasma Institute from 29 April to 3 May 2019. This workshop explores the frontiers of fusion research and the...

  • Poster Prize for Will

    Congratulations to Will Trickey, a third year Fusion CDT student based at University of York, who won the student poster prize at the High Power Laser Users annual christmas meeting...

  • 2018 TWP Poster prize winner

    Greg Smith was awarded the poster prize at the 16th Technological Plasma Workshop held in Coventry in October 2018. Greg is a third year Fusion CDT student based at University...

  • Nuclear Photonics 2018 – poster award for Chris Underwood

    Christopher Underwood attended the Nuclear Photonics 2018 conference in Brasov, Romania in June 2018 and was awarded a Second Prize in their Best Poster Awards. Chris is a second year...

  • Poster prize winner – Jack Haley

    Congratulations to Jack Haley, a 4th year Fusion CDT student, who recently won first prize in the ‘Scientific Conference’ category in the University of Oxford, Department of Materials annual poster...