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Welcome to Mark Bell, radar PhD student

We’re delighted to welcome Mark Bell to the Group as our newest PhD student. Supported by Leonardo UK and the University, Mark’s PhD will be investigating techniques for terrain mapping and coherent change detection…

JEOL prize success for Yujie Zhao

Many congratulations to Yujie Zhao for coming second in the JEOL prize for best student talk in EPR for her talk “High power chirp inversion pulses increase cross-effect DNP enhancement close to the theoretical limit”.…

Drone detection radar book chapter published!

Samiur Rahman and Duncan Robertson are delighted that their chapter “Applications of millimetre wave radar for UAV detection and classification” has been published in the book “Radar Countermeasures for Unmanned Aerial…

Prof. Graham Smith wins the 2022 Bruker Prize

The Royal Society of Chemistry ESR Group Bruker Prize 2022 has been awarded to Professor Graham Smith for his pioneering contributions to the development and application of high frequency EPR instrumentation. Graham…

Will Harcourt wins the ENVRI Video Competition!

Congratulations to our PhD student, Will Harcourt, who recently won the 2021 ENVRI User Story Video Competition! His video celebrates his recent fieldwork in Svalbard, where he deployed our AVTIS2 94 GHz radar to…

Successful radar summer projects

Two very successful radar summer projects have just concluded. Mark Bell worked on the repair and recommissioning of our solid state 94 GHz FMCW Doppler cloud radar and Fred Gibbs worked on the simulation and analysis…

Congratulations Yujie!

Yujie Zhao was a prizewinner for the best talks at the annual St Andrews Physics and Astronomy postgraduate conference held on the 3rd and 4th June, which featured talks from all 2nd year St Andrews Physics PhD…

Welcome to our 3 summer students!

It is a great pleasure to welcome 3 summer project students to our group! Hugo Karas will be continuing on from his final year Honours project research work with Graham Smith before embarking on his PhD studies at ETH…