AiPT is one of the world’s leading photonics research centres, known for its scientific achievements ranging from medical lasers and bio-sensing for healthcare to high-speed optical communications technology that underpins the internet and the digital economy.
We coordinate dozens of national and international research and industrial projects across various areas of science and engineering:
- High-speed optical fibre transmission systems, free-space optical communications, 5G/6G wireless links, and optical signal processing
- Bio-and medical photonics, as well as sensing applications, that improve diagnostic- and sensing technologies in healthcare
- nonlinear photonics and Device technologies such as fibre gratings, optoelectronics and fibre lasers
- Material processing, including UV and femtosecond lasers, THz technology and nano-photonics.
AiPT combines world-class research with cohort-based postgraduate education, translating scientific breakthroughs from the laboratory into real-world impacts. Our network includes over 100 industrial collaborators, from SMEs to major corporations like BT, Airbus, IBM, Infinera, Thales, BAE Systems, Nokia Bell Labs and many others. We have a vibrant team of researchers guided by world-renowned academics with extensive industry expertise.
Our activities extend beyond the laboratory through various outreach efforts, ensuring our research impact is reflected in public awareness and policy making. With collaborations spanning more than 80 major photonics centres worldwide, AiPT has earned international acclaim for research that brings tangible benefits to science, the economy, and society.
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Fellowship (express of interest)
Aston Institute of Photonics Technologies (AiPT) invite ambitious, independently minded, career-driven early career researchers to submit their interest to apply for:
Projects should align with the AiPT scientific themes described (https://www.aston.ac.uk/research/eps/aipt). Please do not contact potential hosts before submitting your proposal. The AiPT team will arrange the matchmaking. You must read the guidance documents related to these schemes to ensure that you are eligible, please follow the links provided above.
Please submit the following to photonics@aston.ac.uk
- One file containing a brief project summary and your academic CV.
- Potential topics for collaboration
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AiPT Deputy Director, Prof David Webb
- A current hot topic in photonics research is developing technology to enable long-distance optical fibre communications links to function as distributed sensors.
- Applications include earthquake detection, structural health monitoring and identification of physical threats to the communication cables.
- The topic brings together a range of fields: optical communications, distributed fibre sensing, digital signal processing and machine learning.
AiPT Deputy Director, Professor Andrew Ellis is looking for candidates willing to submit a proposal to work on:
- Mode-multiplexed free space optical transmission systems for both turbulence resilience and high-capacity performance, or more broadly on DSP techniques from free space optical systems
- Sub photon per bit intersatellite communication systems using a variety of novel transmitters, optical amplifiers and receivers, or more broadly on high-performance laser communications links
- On novel transmitters and receivers for resilience and energy-efficient free space optical communications, or more broadly on novel amplifier free high power optical transceivers
- On ultra-low-cost, cooler-less coherent detection for a variety of optical communications applications, with length scales ranging from room to planet-sized.
AiPT Director, Prof. Sergei Turitsyn is looking for candidates interested in: O
- Optical computing
- Neuromorphic computing theory
- Applications of AI/ML in photonics
- Nonlinear photonics and lasers
Prof Igor Meglinski, Professor in Quantum Biophotonics & Biomedical Engineering, is looking for candidates to work on
- “Mode-multiplexed free space optical transmission systems for both turbulence resilience and high-capacity performance”.
Dr Sonia Boscolo is looking for candidates to submit a proposal for the MSCA-PF on the topics
- “Fibre resonators for sensing; multimode fibre laser sources”
- “ML-enabled design of optical devices and photonic systems”.
Dr Daniel Hill is looking for candidates willing to submit a proposal to work on the development of machine-learning enhanced spectroscopy technologies within a microfluidics format for high-through multimodal analysis of micro and nanoplastics within complex matrices in collaboration with an international company.
Dr Daniel Hill looking for candidates willing to submit a proposal to work:
- The development of state of the art point of site lab-on-a-chip immunodetection technologies through the realisation of novel polymer based optical biosensors.
