Meet our 2024 Postgraduate Research Award winners
Our Postgraduate Research Awards help researchers share their knowledge throughout the global science, engineering and technology community, with the aim of improving people’s lives around the world.
IET Postgraduate Scholarship for an Outstanding Researcher
Christopher Hull
Chris is a PhD candidate in the Energy and Power Group in the Department of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford. He is passionate about electrification and decarbonisation, and his research focuses on developing tools and knowledge to accelerate the electrification of public road transport in sub-Saharan Africa.
This award will enable him to continue further research, travel to conferences, and present his work to a wider audience, hopefully attracting further interest and investment in his research.
Hudswell International Research Scholarship
Yuezhou Luo
Yuezhou is a PhD candidate in the Electrical Engineering Division at the University of Cambridge. His research investigates novel electronic devices based on amorphous semiconductors. Yuezhou established a systematic theory and a computationally tractable model that links material structure with electrical properties relevant to localised band tail states.
Being awarded this scholarship will facilitate the dissemination of his research and allow Yuezhou to explore further ideas in the rest of his PhD.
Leslie H Paddle Scholarship
Peiqian Guo
Peiqian is a chartered engineer and a PhD student at the Department of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering, within the School of Engineering at the University of Birmingham. Peiqian specialises in VSCbased DC technologies for power systems, renewable energy integration, and traction power supply systems. His research focuses on developing high-power density and flexible interconnection strategies for urban distribution networks in load-centred cities.
This scholarship will motivate his future research within the global power, energy and transport community, enabling further engagement in industry and academic collaborations.
IET Postgraduate Prize
Junluo Li
Junluo is a PhD candidate in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. Her research focuses on high-energy density and high-temperature film capacitor dielectrics. Junluo has developed a high-temperature capacitor film designed for industrial applications, which if widely adopted, could significantly cut CO2 emissions and broaden the application field of film capacitors.
This prize will provide additional motivation for Junluo’s work. She also plans to use the award to attend more international scientific conferences.
Mohamed Elzeadani
Mohamed is a PhD candidate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Imperial College London. His research focuses on developing sustainable rubberised concrete materials for use in buildings subjected to extreme loads.
This prize will enable Mohamed to expand his PhD work to consider other loading scenarios and member configurations, which will enhance the depth of his research findings.
Lisa Alazraki
Lisa is a PhD student at the Department of Computing at Imperial College London, and her research interests lie in large foundation models and large language models. Lisa’s work attempts to enhance these models’ reasoning and planning capabilities to improve their performance in complex and challenging tasks.
Working with large-scale models is a data and compute-intensive endeavour, so receiving this prize will help Lisa with the costs of collecting a new dataset and accessing additional GPUs.
Kae Nicolson
Kae is a PhD candidate in the Tissue Engineering Group in the Department of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford. Their research focuses on the development of cell-free tissue engineered scaffolds for skin wound healing. Kae was inspired to pursue tissue engineering approaches for skin wound healing after suffering serious burns in 2015. Kae is investigating the use of extracellular vesicles (EVs) released from cells which carry molecular instructions for biological processes involved in wound healing.
This award will allow Kae to continue the exploration of this project and to attend scientific conferences.