Emma’s award for excellence
Published: 27 March 2013
Emma Wisniewski-Barker, 23, PhD researcher from the Optics Group in the School of Physics and Astronomy won the Bronze Medal at a competition in the House of Commons, for the excellence of her physics research.
Emma Wisniewski-Barker, 23, PhD researcher from the Optics Group in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Glasgow won the Bronze Medal at a competition in the House of Commons, for the excellence of her physics research, walking away with a £1,000 prize at the end of the March.
Emma presented her research on slowing down the speed of light to dozens of politicians and a panel of expert judges, as part of the poster competition SET for Britain.
Her research, which looks to slow and store light in steps towards all-optical processing and much faster and more efficient computing, was judged against 29 other shortlisted researchers’ work.
On winning Bronze, Emma said, “It is a great honour, particularly given how much interesting research we were competing with.”
Emma plans to spend her winnings on a flight home to the United States to visit her family.
SET for Britain aims to help politicians understand more about the UK’s thriving science and engineering base and rewards some of the strongest scientific and engineering research being undertaken in the UK.
First published: 27 March 2013
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