• Question: Do you have a PhD? If so, what is it in? If not, would you like to get one and what in?

    Asked by Lottie to Rob, Rebecca, Josh, Chris on 17 Jun 2015.
    • Photo: Rebecca Dewey

      Rebecca Dewey answered on 17 Jun 2015:

      Yes, I finished my PhD 3 years ago. It’s in developing and improving techniques that an MRI scanner uses to make measurements of the brain. I tried out some new ideas, improved some old ones and then put it all together to run a study looking at how a medicine can change brain activity.

    • Photo: Rob Temperton

      Rob Temperton answered on 17 Jun 2015:

      I’m working on mine at the moment!

      My PhD is based around developing a technique called electrospray deposition which we use to deposit molecules onto our samples in a vacuum chamber. The more broad research topic of our group is studying molecules on surfaces with the aim to better understand novel electrical devices like organic solar cells.

      Rob

    • Photo: Chris Armstrong

      Chris Armstrong answered on 22 Jun 2015:

      I’m currently working on mine, its looking into developing laser driven x-ray sources for use in industrial applications.

      This ranges from the spectrum of emitted x-rays to their size of the source point, to detector technology, to better understanding the physics behind coupling laser energy to the electrons in a target. Its a fairly vague theme that allow me to specalise into exactly the area of interest I have.

      Which at the moment is source characteristics, I want to make that point of emission smaller and less divergent!

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