Tag: Prizes

Vatshal wins (yet another) Prize!

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… And the 2nd year Postgraduate Research Prize goes to… our own Vatshal Srivastav!

We are very happy to announce that the School of Engineering and Physical Sciences here at Heriot-Watt has recognised Vatshal’s hard work and outstanding achievements by awarding him this year’s 2nd year Postgraduate Research Prize.

This prize is awarded to PhD students who have completed approximately 2 years of study and have made excellent progress in their research. The judging criteria included: quality, originality, awareness of wider literature, and output in terms of publications and presentations.

You can check out some of this great output in Vatshal’s recent publication in PRL: “Genuine High-Dimensional Quantum Steering”, and in his upcoming Physical Review Applied: “Characterising and Tailoring Spatial Correlations in Multi-Mode Parametric Downconversion“.

Another one for the wall!

BBQLab @ ICOAM2022

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Tampere, Finland at 11:30 PM!

Natalia and Mehul recently represented BBQLab at the 6th International Conference on Optical Angular Momentum in Tampere, Finland. It was a fantastic event, bringing together a diverse group of researchers from around the world working on structured photons, electrons, ions, and neutrons! Natalia won the second prize in the hotly contested ICOAM poster competition for her submission on entangled ripples and twists of light. Mehul presented an invited talk on our recent work on programming high-dimensional quantum optical circuits inside a complex medium. We are looking forward to ICOAM2024 in South Africa!

Congratulations to Natalia for winning 2nd prize in the ICOAM poster competition!
One of the many beautiful lakes around Tampere (photo taken from the Viikinsaari island, venue for the ICOAM conference dinner)

BBQLab @ BQIT:22

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BBQLab descended on Bristol for Bristol Quantum Information Technologies Workshop 2022 to enjoy a fantastic week of seminars, poster sessions, networking events and engagement with the scientific community – and beautiful Bristol.

Congratulations to Vatshal Srivastav (left) and Suraj Goel (right) for winning the People’s Choice Poster Prize, gaining over 50% of peoples votes! Brilliant follow-up to Vatshal’s win in BQIT: 2021.

As well as an inspiring Equality, Diveristy and Inclusion session on imposter syndrome in academia and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic featuring our group leader Prof Mehul Malik, and co-chaired by our Sophie Engineer.

All in all, a wonderful opportunity for all nine of our team to step out of the virtual and into real life. Bring on more conferences, workshops and prizes!

Congratulations Natalia!

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We are very proud to announce a major achievement of our PhD student Natalia Herrera. She won the 2nd-year prize and the best talk award at the annual Postgraduate Research Conference in the School of Engineering and Physical Sciences at Heriot-Watt University. This acknowledges the fantastic talks she gives to a wide range of audiences and her passion to share her expertise.


Natalia has made outstanding achievements in the lab during her PhD as is shown by her latest Nature Physics paper titled “Unscrambling entanglement through a complex medium.” Our proud winner felt very honoured by taking home two prizes and will spend the prize money on time with her friends and family in 2022.

Mehul wins a Royal Society of Edinburgh Medal!

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BBQ Lab has a medallist!

We are very proud to share that Mehul has been awarded the Royal Society of Edinburgh Early Career Medal in the Physical, Engineering & Informatic Sciences for the session 2021-22!

He was awarded the RSE Medal for his work in pushing the boundaries of our understanding of quantum mechanics and its use in modern technologies such as quantum cryptography and communications. He was recognised as having made world-leading contributions to the understanding of high-dimensional entanglement and the development of techniques for quantum communications and cryptography that are currently adopted in labs worldwide.

Congratulations to Mehul!