Optocoulombics Lab

News

Updates, awards, and milestones from the Optocoulombics Lab.

2026
Funding

Sidahmed Abayzeed awarded Wellcome Accelerator Award (£200k) to advance bioelectric sensing research.

Public Lecture

Sidahmed Abayzeed gave a public lecture — Seeing the Invisible — as part of the University of Nottingham Science Public Lecture Series.

Invited Talk

Sidahmed Abayzeed gave a talk at the Minoritised Life Scientists Future Forum (MLSFF).

Publication

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).

Publication

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).

Publication

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).

2024
Award

Congratulations to Karen Regules Medel for winning the Best Presentation Award at the Celebrating Engineering Research Event, organised by University of Nottingham Faculty of Engineering.

Karen Regules Medel receiving Best Presentation Award
Conference

Will Hardiman presenting the early fruition of his exciting research on a new electrostatic force measuring technique at the European Light Microscopy Initiative (ELMI 2024).

Will Hardiman presenting at ELMI 2024
Award

Subhaan Ahmed awarded EPSRC summer vacation internship.

Award

Tom Brophy awarded Faculty of Engineering PhD scholarship (October 2024).

2023
Award

Karen Regules-Medel received SPIE travel award to participate at Photonics West 2023.

Karen at Photonics West 2023
Conference

Sidahmed, Finlay and Oscar present at Meta-23 Paris (July 2023).

Team at Meta-23 Paris
Award

Andrea Faúndez Quezada received the best MSc student award (December 2023).

Award

George Wadsworth awarded Faculty of Engineering PhD scholarship (October 2023).

Team

Will Hardiman joined the team with interest in optical measurement of electrostatic force (April 2023).

Award

Karen Regules-Medel awarded Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología PhD scholarship — CONACYT (February 2023).

2022
Funding

Received UKRI New Horizons award to develop a novel electrostatic force microscopy.

2021
Award

Oscar Barajas Gonzalez awarded Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología PhD scholarship — CONACYT (October 2021).

Award

Finlay Nelson awarded Faculty of Engineering PhD scholarship (October 2021).

2019
Founding

Sidahmed Abayzeed awarded Nottingham Research Fellowship (March 2019).