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So what does the Dream Fellowship mean to me? I think the answer is opportunity. My
research is in the field of terahertz science and technology. The terahertz frequency range
of the electro magnet spectrum is between the microwave and infrared regions. It hasn't
been very exploited to-date owing to the lack of cheap, compact, sources, detectors and
systems. Yet there is a huge range of applications for terahertz science and technology across
the physical, biological and medical sciences.
Now I'm very fortunate at the University of Leeds to work in a very strong terahertz research
group with excellent facilities. We work with a number of international collaborators from
the States, from Europe and the Far East and we are taking some of our technology and looking
to exploit it with industry.
So you might ask why do I need a Dream Fellowship? What will I do with that Dream Fellowship?
The answer is that I think it will give me time to reflect and to think about what we
are doing, to look at new research directions, to consider how we are doing cross-disciplinary
work and to see how we can do things better.
What will I do during the fellowship? Well, firstly I plan to visit a number of labs in
the States, Europe and Far East and look at how they do their research, particularly focusing
on cross-disciplinary research. I want to see how they do that most effectively and
the procedures they use to do that. I also want to see how they take early research and
look to translate that to industry and see how that can be done in the best possible
way. Moving back to my own research group in Leeds, I'd like to look and think about
how we could do our research more effectively. How we can be more creative with our ideas
and also how we can ensure that the ideas of all the staff in our team can get reflected,
be they're a lecturer or senior academic, be they're a post-doctoral researcher, be
they're a PhD student or one of our under graduate students who is doing a project with
us. How can we ensure that everyone's ideas are heard and that we can make the most of
them? We have got some excellent facilities for doing terahertz science and technology,
can we make more use of them by working with people outside Leeds and through collaborations.
Equally others have got good facilities that we haven't got at Leeds, can we work more
with them to develop the whole field?
So by the end of the fellowship what will I have got? I hope I would have got more effective
research within our team at Leeds, new ways of doing cross-disciplinary research and I
will be helped to know what we should be doing at the terahertz research field at the University
of Leeds over the next decade and perhaps be able to influence the international community
in their research as well. And possibly, I may even have found a new research direction
to work on that is not terahertz science and technology.