FLEET’s Mitko Oldfield is competing in the International Visualise Your Thesis competition. Today (14 October) at 4:30pm (AEDST) they announce the winners and you can watch the event online.
Mitko won the Monash University Visualise your thesis competition last month and is now competing against finalists from 25 participating universities around the world.
The Visualise Your Thesis competition provides an opportunity for universities to showcase their graduate research and for the Visualise Your Thesis competitors to build essential digital communication skills to effectively communicate complex research to a general audience.
Mitko Oldfield is an experimental physicist specialising in terahertz time-domain spectroscopy and exciton-polariton condensation, working with A/Prof Agustin Schiffrin and Dr Gary Beane at Monash University within FLEET’s research theme 2 and research theme 3.
Mikto’s research focuses on forming a polariton condensate in high Q-factor microcavities through the use of a terahertz pumping beam generated via optical rectification. The aim is a polariton condensate that is coherent both spatially and temporally in the cryogenic regime, with the potential of translating this to room temperature through the use of perovskite-based microcavities.
Mitko’s entry that won the Monash University Visualise Your Thesis competition