Martha Turvey (Third year postgraduate student in the Ultrasound Group) has been announced as the winner of the best oral presentation prize at the British Liquid Crystal Society conference in April.

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Emma MacPherson showed the BBC team around her lab, showcasing the development of her skin scanner machine.

Congratulations to Professor Steven Brown who has joined the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Physical Sciences Strategic Advisory Team.

Dr James Blake was invited to speak on behalf of the Department's Centre for Space Domain Awareness at the 19th Space Situational Awareness Conference in London.

On Tuesday 16th April, Professor Chapman was presented her award at the annual EGU meeting in Vienna with over 15,000 people in attendance. Sandra also gave a lecture titled ‘Multiscale matters: when coupling across multiple scales drives the dynamics of solar system plasmas.’