Royal Academy of Engineering Fellowship
Published: 30 July 2014
Dr Martin Lavery, School of Physics and Astronomy, has been awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowship. The fellowship is presented to engineering researchers whose projects have the potential to bring radical innovation.
A University of Glasgow scholar has been awarded one of seven Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowships.
The fellowship, awarded to Dr Martin Lavery – of the university’s School of Physics and Astronomy – is presented to engineering researchers whose projects have the potential to bring radical innovation to their fields.
They aim to provide outstanding researchers with financial support and mentoring for five years to enable them to establish independent careers in research
Fellowships are only awarded to research projects which address unresolved or critical issues with the potential to lead to significant breakthroughs, benefiting both the research community and industry.
Dr Lavery's research is focussed on working around the limitations which optical communications technology is approaching.
He hopes to bypass these limitations and develop a higher capacity system, using a currently unutilized property of light.
By using light’s orbital angular momentum, the light can be used to develop high capacity, secure communication networks.
The research hopes to form a new way of communicating using fibre optics which could allow transmission of far more information than is possible today.
Further to this, the research will also develop technology which can transmit and receive signals via open space – bringing the potential for transmitting data, for example, from building to building.
Dr Lavery said: “I feel very honoured to have been award this very prestigious fellowship from the Royal Academy of Engineering.
“This fellowship will support my research interests in both Engineering and Physics at the University of Glasgow over the coming years.
“The University of Glasgow has been a great supporter of my research interests and career development throughout my Doctoral and Post-Doctoratal time at the University.
“I look forward to embarking on this next exciting phase of my career at this world leading institution, with a focus to building a tool kit for higher diminutional communications.”
First published: 30 July 2014
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