News
Updates, awards, and milestones from the Optocoulombics Lab.
Sidahmed Abayzeed awarded Wellcome Accelerator Award (£200k) to advance bioelectric sensing research.
Sidahmed Abayzeed gave a public lecture — Seeing the Invisible — as part of the University of Nottingham Science Public Lecture Series.
Sidahmed Abayzeed gave a talk at the Minoritised Life Scientists Future Forum (MLSFF).
New paper published: Plasmonic imaging of living pancreatic beta-cell networks — Abayzeed S, Galvis D, Regules Medel K, Jones CF, Barajas Gonzalez O et al. in Scientific Reports (16, 3993).
New paper published: Untangling cation and anion contributions to refractive index changes in electrical double-layer capacitors — Regules Medel K, Nelson F, Hardiman W, Fuentes Dominguez R, Somekh M, Abayzeed S in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (Royal Society of Chemistry).
New paper published: Bioelectrical interfaces beyond excitable cells: cancer, aging, and gene expression modulation — Cadinu P, Burgess MK, Franco Jones C, Iarossi M, Schröter M, Nakatsuka N, Djamgoz MBA, Gonçalves G, Abayzeed S, Sanjuán-Alberte P in Advanced Materials Interfaces (Wiley).
Subhaan Ahmed awarded EPSRC summer vacation internship.
Tom Brophy awarded Faculty of Engineering PhD scholarship (October 2024).
Andrea Faúndez Quezada received the best MSc student award (December 2023).
George Wadsworth awarded Faculty of Engineering PhD scholarship (October 2023).
Will Hardiman joined the team with interest in optical measurement of electrostatic force (April 2023).
Karen Regules-Medel awarded Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología PhD scholarship — CONACYT (February 2023).
Received UKRI New Horizons award to develop a novel electrostatic force microscopy.
Oscar Barajas Gonzalez awarded Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología PhD scholarship — CONACYT (October 2021).
Finlay Nelson awarded Faculty of Engineering PhD scholarship (October 2021).
Sidahmed Abayzeed awarded Nottingham Research Fellowship (March 2019).