Prizes for Imperial College Physics staff

Dr Louise Willingale and Dr Christoph Haselwandter have both been awarded prestigious Physics prizes.

Dr Louise Willingale of the Department of Physics Plasma Physics Group has recently been awarded the Institute of Physics Culham Thesis Prize for significant experimental and numerical work on the acceleration of ions to high energies by laser-plasma interaction, research undertaken whilst a PhD student in the Department. This continues the remarkable success of the group over recent years (In six out of seven years that this prize has been awarded it has gone to a Plasma Physics Group student).

Dr Christoph Haselwandtner of the Department of Physics Condensed Matter Theory Group has won the 2007 Imperial College London Armstrong Medal and Prize, awarded earlier this year for his PhD research on thin film and interface structures undertaken under the supervision of Professor Dimitri Vvedensky. He follows in the steps of Dr Dmitry Poplavskyy (2004, Experimental Solid State Physics Group, supervised by Professor Jenny Nelson) who was the last member of the Department to win the Armstrong Medal and Prize for outstanding research with application to industry.