A big congratulations to Hannah Hatcher, for successfully defending her thesis on "In Vivo THz Spectroscopy for Quantitative Skin Evaluation". Thanks to Prof. Zach Taylor (Aalto) for acting as the external examiner, and James as internal.

And a further giant congratulations to Daniel Coxon, who also defended his thesis recently, on "A study of the relaxation dynamics of local vibrational modes associated with hydrogen in diamond". We are exceptionally grateful to Prof. Mike Ashfold (Bristol) and Prof. Julie MacPherson (Warwick Chemistry) for acting as the examiners.

We are delighted to welcome three new PhD students to the group! Jacob Young and Hui Liang Ou are working with Emma, while Justas Deveikis is starting with Becky & James. Best of luck for your research.

Many congratulations to Maria, who successfully defended her PhD thesis on 21st October. Maria's thesis on "Ultrafast terahertz and optical spectroscopy of 1D van der Waals nanomaterials" describes her work on carbon nanotubes and transition metal dichalcogenide nanotubes. Thanks to her examiners, Prof. Junichiro Kono @Rice and our own Dr Rebecca Milot. Well done Maria!

A warm welcome to our new postgrad students: Goncalo Costa, Junn Keat and Justas Deveikis, who have just started their research in the group.

Dr Monti has just finished his PhD and completed his IAS Fellowship at Warwick. We wish Maurizio all the best as he leaves Coventry after 4 years to explore pastures new (Denmark). Maurizio was instrumental (pun intended) in setting up the OPTP beamline in WCUS, and made good use of it (plus the TEAS beamline) in his work on carrier cooling in perovskites and InSb, as reported in his thesis. Good luck for your new postdoc post in Aarhus University, Maurizio, we will miss you!

Please get in touch if you are interested in a PhD or MSc by Research in the group. We have two funded PhD studentships available for autumn 2020 start, titled Automation of THz imaging for Medical Diagnosis and An ultrafast shakedown of defects in diamond using intense infrared pulses. A number of other projects are suitable for motivated students looking to complete an MSc or a summer research project.

Many congratulations to Connor, who finished his PhD in style on the 11th December. Connor's work on "Enhanced Polarisation Control and Extreme Electric Fields: Advances in Terahertz Spectroscopy Applied to Anisotropic Materials and Magnetic Phase Transistions" has led to a new beamline at WCUS and a new type of terahertz radiation source.

Fantastic work, Connor, and best of luck for your next steps!

A very warm welcome to Eric Hu, who has started his PhD on carbon nanotubes, supervised by Jeremy Sloan in Microscopy and James.

Congratulations to Daniel Coxon on winning first prize in the poster competition at Warwick Chemistry's ChemContext event. Daniel is working on defects in Diamond at the Warwick Centre for Ultrafast Spectroscopy and presented a poster titled "The Crystal Maze".

A very warm welcome to our 4 new PhD students, who have just started their THz adventures! Hannah and Xavier are working with Emma on THz imaging and biomedical applications, while Helen (supervised by Becky) and Edward (supervised by James) are studying the wonderful world of perovskite semiconductors. Best of luck.