Congratulations to Madeleine Morris and Phil Calado on winning best talks at the Physics Postgraduate Researcher Symposium.

Madeleine and Phil are both final year students in the Plastic Electronics Centre for Doctoral Training (Cohort 5).  Their PhD projects are focused on new systems for solar energy conversion.

Solar Energy Conversion

Phil Calado is supervised by Dr Piers Barnes and Prof Jenny Nelson (Department of Physics). His project is based on charge and ionic transport in organic-inorganic perovskite semiconductors.

Madeleine Morris is supervised by Prof James Durrant (Department of Chemistry) and Prof Steve Dunn.  Madeleine's project focuses on using organic-inorganic systems to probe performance enhancement of solar energy systems due to the piezoelectric effect.

Phil and Madeleine both won prizes for their talks on the PhD work at the 2017 Physics Postgraduate Symposium.

Phil says, "I thought all the talks were excellent so it was a real surprise and honour to find out that I had won the best talk for my session. It’s taken two years of a constantly evolving presentation involving multiple cartoons and narratives but hopefully now people can understand what it is that we actually do."