Helen joined the group as an RA in June 2021 and is working to develop 3D photonic crystal structures using ultrafast laser microfabrication techniques.
Helen’s track record is multidisciplinary, although she is a physicist by training, having graduated with an MPhys from the University of Southampton in 2015.
She completed her PhD thesis in summer 2019 at the University of Edinburgh (UoE) College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine.
While at UoE, she worked within the EPSRC IRC Proteus group to develop optical diagnostic techniques using bespoke optical fibres specifically for lung disease applications.
After graduating from her PhD, Helen moved to the Department of Applied Physics at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), in Sweden, as a post-doc on a Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation funded project – multifunctional fibre optics.
She worked with collaborators from the Science for Life Laboratory and Karolinska Hospital to develop a benchtop microfluidic fibre device for molecular diagnostics. There, Helen was responsible for micro-structured fibre fabrication and characterisation, and biological assay demonstration.