Francisco Hernandez-Ledezma awarded SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship

Francisco Ulises Hernandez Ledezma has been awarded a 2016 Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship  by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics for his potential contributions to the field of optics, photonics or related field. He was given the award on 8 June 2016, in Bellingham, Washington, in the USA.

Ulises is currently doing a PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at The University of Nottingham, working on a multidisciplinary research project and supervised by Professor Stephen Morgan (Biomedical Engineering), Dr. Serhiy Korposh (Biophotonics) and Professor Barrie Hayes-Gill (Electronic Systems and Medical Devices). His PhD research aims to develop optical fibre sensors for medical devices mainly used in Anaesthesia, in association with Nottingham University Hospital research groups.

Ulises is right now conducting an academic collaboration between the University of Nottingham and the University of Kitakyushu, working in the human odour biosensing laboratory led by Prof. Seung-Woo Lee.