Professor Adrian Podoleanu, of the School of Physical Sciences, has received a prestigious Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award.
Professor Podoleanu, who is Professor of Biomedical Optics, received the award in recognition of the pioneering research of the Applied Optics Group (AOG), which he leads.
The AOG is home to about fifteen academics, research staff and postgraduate students working on a range of projects. Most of their work is focused on the field of Optical Coherence Tomography, and has fed into both clinical use and industrial applications.
Jointly funded by the Wolfson Foundation and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), the award scheme aims to provide universities with additional support to ‘enable them to attract science talent from overseas and retain respected UK scientists of outstanding achievement and potential’. The Royal Society is the UK’s national academy of science.