Funding and Grants
Santander Mobility Awards 2018
Title: Multimode Nonlinear Optics in Photonic Crystal Fibres
Amount: £ 980 (Travel & Subsistence)
Period of award: 6 months (Jun '18 – Dec '18)
The Research Grants Council (RGC) Hong Kong project PolyU 152173/17E (co-PI)
Title: Multimode Nonlinear Optics in Photonic Crystal Fibers
Amount: HK$ 495,846
Period of award: 3 years (Jan '18 – Dec '20)
The Research Grants Council (RGC) Hong Kong project PolyU 152144/15E (co-PI)
Title: Generation of Few-Cycle Pulses in Fiber Lasers by Using Passive Similaritons in Anomalous Dispersion Fibers
Amount: HK$ 696,029
Period of award: 3 years (Jan '16 – Dec '18)
The Research Grants Council (RGC) Hong Kong project PolyU 5263/13E (co-PI)
Title: Frequency Domain Mode-Locked Lasers
Amount: HK$605,300
Period of award: 3 years (Jan '14 – Dec '16)
UK India Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI) Exchange Project (co-PI)
Title: Development of Optical Fibre based devices for Sensing Applications
Amount: £30,010 (Travel & Subsistence)
Period of project: 2 years (July '13 - June '15)
Northern Research Partnership PhD Studentship Project (co-PI)
Title: Development of non-invasive blood glucose monitoring system
Amount: £31,000 (PhD Studentship)
Period of project: 3 years (Dec '12 - Nov '15)
Hydro-Aluminium Consultancy Project (PI)
Title: Non-destructive techniques for identification and quantification of elemental changes in extruded aluminium
Amount: £11,800 (consultancy)
Period of project: 15 March – 30 June 2011
The Royal Society Short Visit (UK-Japan) (PI)
Title: Optical Pulse Compression Using Chirped Solitons
Amount: £2,580 (Travel & Subsistence)
Period of visit: 2 weeks in Jan '10
The Research Grants Council (RGC) Hong Kong project PolyU 5289/07E (co-PI)
Title: Design and Analysis of a Novel Non-uniform Fiber Bragg Grating Pulse Compressor
Amount: HK$462,000
Period of award: 2 years (Jan '08 – Dec '09)
The Research Grants Council (RGC) Hong Kong project HKU 7118/07E (co-PI)
Title: The NLS models with novel nonlinearities: their applications in capillarity and optics
Amount: HK$497,750
Period of award: 2 years (Jan '08 – Dec '09)
The Royal Society International Joint Project Grants Programme (UK-Brazil) (PI)
Title: Design and Simulation of Terrestrial Dispersion-Managed Optical Fibre Systems
Amount: £12,000 (Travel & Subsistence)
Period of award: 3 years (Nov '07 – Oct '10)
Scottish Funding Council (co-PI)
Title: Innovation Instrumentation Technologies for 21st Century Oil and Gas Industries in Scotland
Amount: £57,299
Period of award: 6 months (Jan '07 – June '07)
The Nuffield Foundation Newly Appointed Lecturer Award (PI)
Title: Design and simulation of DM optical fibre transmission systems
Amount: £5000 (Computer, Software, Travel & Subsistence)
Period of award: 2 years (May '06 – Apr '08)
The Libyan Cultural Affairs studentship & project (PI)
Title: Analytical design of WDM-DM optical fibre transmission systems
Amount: £2650 (Computer, Software & Subsistence) + PhD studentship
Period of award: 3 years (May '06 – Apr '09)
The Royal Society of Edinburgh International Exchange Programme (PI)
Title: Optical fibre communications
Amount: £800 (Travel)
Period of visit: 27 Mar '06 – 07 Apr '06
The Royal Society International Joint Project Grants Programme (UK-HK) (PI)
Title: Dynamics of optical pulses in averaged, dispersion-managed fibres
Amount: £6,000 (Travel & Subsistence)
Period of award: 2 years (Oct '05 – Sep '07)
The Sixth Century Studentship (University of Aberdeen) (PI)
Title: Transmission performance improvement of DM fibre systems using NOLM
Amount: PhD studentship
Period of Award: 3 years (Dec '05 – Nov '08)
