NEWS

2025

• Nov'25   Emma Keel wins poster competition at SPEERI Annual Conference

• Nov'25   Novosound wins Excellence in Innovation award at the Technology Scotland Annual Dinner and awards Ceremony   

• Sep'25    ITFSI takes part on the Science and Technology Facilities Council

• Aug'25    Research published in IEEE Sensors Letters

• Aug'25    ITFSI becomes part of Sustainable reversal of metallic adhesive connections

• Aug'25    Visit from colleagues at Wroclaw University of Science and Tehnology

• Aug'25    Sam Ahmadzadeh, Des Gibson, Ashwini Konanahalli and Dr Li Sun have their paper "Exploring Net-Zerio solutions for High Density Building Retrofits" accepted at the international Retrofit Conference

• Jun'25    ITFSI attend the Optica Optical Interference Coating Conference in Tuscon, Airzona

• Jun'25    Dr Sam Ahmadzadeh, Dr Li Sun and PhD student Adebowale Osanyingbe attend All-Energy 2025

• Jun'25    ITFSI members attend the launch event for the Centre for Net Zero High Density Buildings (CeNZ-HighDB)

• Apr'25    Professor Des Gibson gives a talk at the 2025 Symposium on Sustainable Energy and Power Systems at Sharjah University

• Apr'25    Manu Muhiyudin successfully defends his PhD thesis 'Micro Infrared Spectrophotometer Design for Broadband Gas Sensing Applications'.

• Mar'25    Visit to ITFSI facilities by Dr Malavika Chandrasekhar and Dr Karthik V.Raman from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Hyderbad.

• Mar'25    Connor Lindsay presents a poster at the Scottish Universities Physics Alliance

• Feb'25    ITFSI becomes a part of the newly launched Green Economy Centre

• Feb'25    Emma Keel and Connor Lindsay both successfully complete overseas secondments

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2022

• Nov'22    Our PhD student, Emma Keels, will present her work on 3D graphene at SRPe annual conference. 

• Nov’22   2 papers accepted for publication in Applied Optics.

• Nov'22   Our PhD student, Manuel Pelayo, attends the Technology Scotland Annual Dinner invited by CENSIS.

• Nov'22   Our PhD student, Manuel Pelayo, presents his work during the secondment at Team Saltire Meeting & Awards.

• Oct’22    1 Submitted Paper to Optics Continuum.

• Oct’22    ITFSI welcomes our new PhD students, Connor Lindsay (project funded by STFC). 

• Oct’22    ITFSI welcomes our new PhD student, Michael Mckinlay (project funded by UWS VC studentships)

• Oct’22    5 papers have been submitted to Applied Optics journal. 

• Sep'22    Our PhD student, Manuel Pelayo, presents his work on Ultrasound Sensors at the 7th CENSIS tech summit. 

• Sep’22    ITFSI welcomes our new PhD student, Emma Keels (project funded by SRPe and Integrated Graphene)

• Sep’22    ITFSI welcomes our new visiting researcher, Laura Mazon (project funded by Eramus+)

• Sep’22    ITFSI welcomes our new visiting researcher, Marco Cuenca (project funded by Erasmus+)

• Sep’22    ITFSI welcomes our new visiting researcher, Lucia Nieto (project funded by Erasmus+)

• Jun'22    7 papers presented as oral presentations and posters at OIC Optica (former OSA) in Whistler (Canada).

• Jun'22    1 paper presented as an oral presentation at KTP associate Conference. 

• May’22    Post-doctoral Researcher, Ammara Ejaz orally presented ‘’The Role of Nitrogen intercalation on the electrooxidation of H2O2 Sensor’’ at WOCSDICE EXMATEC 2022 Conference at Ponta-Delgada, Azores, Portugal 

• May’22    Post-doctoral Researcher, Ammara Ejaz represented ITFSI, in a national workshop and interactive session on Self-powered Energy storage systems, in Islamabad, Pakistan. 

• May’22 Post-doctoral Researcher, Ammara Ejaz commenced her 2-months secondment to Islamic International University, Islamabad, Pakistan to learn supercapacitor device fabrication and its electrical characterization 

• May'22   Our PhD student, Manuel Pelayo, is awarded the SUPA Saltire Exchange funding to carry out a secondment for 3 months during summer at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain).

• Apr’22    Our PhD student, Manuel Pelayo, successfully completes his PhD Transfer Event.

• Mar’22    ITFSI PDRF Dr Lewis Fleming presents a poster at UK Optical Designers’ Meeting 2022 (project funded by Innovate UK).

• Mar’22    Post-doctoral Researcher, Ammara Ejaz’s paper titled, ’The Role of Nitrogen intercalation on the electrooxidation of H2O2 Sensor’’ accepted in WOCSDICE EXMATEC 2022 Conference in Ponta-Delgada, Azores, Portugal 

• Feb’22    Post-doctoral Researcher, Ammara Ejaz was awarded SUPA short-term travel grant, £2500 for her secondment in Pakistan 

• Feb’22    ITFSI welcomes our new PhD student, James Rogers (project funded by Intellemetrics Ltd., Shanghai Jason Vacuum (JAVAC), and SRPe)