Well done to Hilary McCarthy who passed her PhD viva voce exam yesterday afternoon. Hilary was jointly supervised by Heather Whitney, Carmen Galan and Tom. Her thesis focused on the effect of carbon nanodots on the photosynthesis of micro algae, and photonic effects in chloroplasts of shade plants. Her PhD was his highly multidisciplinary, coupling ultrafast fluorescence spectroscopy, microscopy, synthetic chemistry and biology!

Since submitting her thesis, Hilary has been part of innovate UK’s ICURe programme, which she has just recently secured follow on funding for.