6th Event

IEEE Women in Photonics

The "IEEE Women in Photonics" event is organized at the same venue between 16h15 and 17h30 (Auditorium building) in the room Senaatszaal, just before the symposium, and we will have ample time to discuss and enjoy this informal meeting. 

It is a free event, but registration is required via e-mail. You can contact prof. Sonia Garcia Blanco (s.m.garciablanco@utwente.nl) by the 21 st of November.

 

This year Prof. Rachel Oliver, from University of Cambridge, UK, will share her career path and then have an inspirational discussion with the attendees concerning career, work-life balance, how to achieve your goals, obstacles that one might need to watch out for or overcome along the way…..

 

 

Bio: Rachel Oliver received her MEng (2000) and PhD (2003) degrees from the University of Oxford, UK.  She then moved to Cambridge as a Research Fellow at Peterhouse College, and later won a prestigious Royal Society University Research Fellowship. In 2011, she took up her permanent academic position at the University of Cambridge and she is currently Professor of Materials Science and Director of the Cambridge Centre for Gallium Nitride. She held a Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowship in 2015-2016 and delivered the Rank Prize Lecture in Photonics in 2018.  She was one of the Women in Engineering Society’s Top 50 Women in Engineering in 2020 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2021.

Rachel’s research focusses on understanding how the small scale structure of nitride materials effects the performance and properties of devices. She uses expertise in microscopy and materials growth to develop new nanoscale nitride structures which will provide new functionality to the devices of the future.  She was the first to apply atom probe tomography to nitride materials, developed the first InGaN-based single photon source, and most recently has patented novel methods compatible with large scale manufacturing for the porosification of nitride materials.  She is a founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Poro Technologies Ltd, a University spinout company exploiting her group’s research on porous nitrides, and hence developing novel red microLEDs.  

Rachel is also a passionate advocate for increased equality, diversity and inclusion in science and engineering and a founder member of The Inclusion Group for Equity in Research in STEMM (TIGERS).  She is an Equality and Diversity Champion for the University of Cambridge School of Physical Sciences and has addressed the Parliamentary and Scientific Committee on equity issues.