| March 2000: Collaboration with Dr. Ulf Peschel on optical photonic crystal
issues, Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat Jena Institut fur Festkorpertheorie
und Theoretische Optik, Jena, Germany. |
| June 1999- Novmber 1999: Further collaboration with the European
Space Research and Technology Centre, ESTEC, working with Dr. Peter
DeMaagt on photonic crystals for millimetre wave applications. |
| October 1998- March 1999: Collaboration with the photonic band gap
research group in the University
of Montpellier in France where I was for six months working on the
theoretical modelling of Opal Colloidal Crystals. I was working with Dr.
David Cassagne and Professor
Christian Jouanin on the European Phobos funded project. |
| I spent one year working in the European
Space Agency's Research & Technology Centre (ESTEC) as a Young
Graduate Trainee on the theoretical modelling of the photonic band gap
crystal known as the woodpile system. Since returning to Glasgow in October
of 1997 I continue my work in modelling the electro-magnetic
properties of novel photonic band gap structures. This is done under the
supervision of Prof.J.M.
Arnold, B.Eng., Ph.D., in conjunction with a studentship grant
awarded by the E.P.S.R.C. |
| I obtained a first class undergraduate European Masters Degree M.Eng in
Electronics and Opto Electronics here in the Electronics
& Electrical Engineering Department in 1996. |
| As part of my Under-Graduate syllabus I also spent six months previous to
the one year working in ESTEC on a stagiare placement. The placement
involved the study of Passive Intermodulation Products, an interference
problem that can arise in satellite communication systems. |