Marsden Fund success 2024

Congratulations to Otago Physics awardees of the 2024 Marsden round:

• Professor Niels Kjaergaard and Dr Matthew Chilcott, Physics, $941,000, Modifying the transmission of light through quantum-controlled light scattering
• Associate Professor Harald Schwefel and Dr Nicholas Lambert, Physics, $941,000, Exceptional control of quantum states: non-Hermitan physics and magnon-polaristons near exceptional points
• Dr Michael Taylor, Physics,$942,000, Improving the technology used to measure abnormal stiffness in cells by using sculpted light at a microscopic scale
• Dr Florian Sedlmeir, Physics, $360,000, Using frequency-comb spectroscopy to transform an optical spectrum into the digital domain in near real-time

The University of Otago press release has more information

https://www.otago.ac.nz/news/newsroom/funding-for-healthy-start-to-school-study