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Accessibility & LanguageNews Archive 2019
Recent successful PhD viva candidates in the School of Physics
Congratulations on your PhD Adventure!
Mar
01
2019
Posted: 09:47 GMT
Congratulations to Chunshui Lin, Martin Sharkey and Kai Neuhaus who successfully defended their PhD theses recently.
Chunshui Lin's PhD thesis was titled: Chemical Nature and Sources of Particulate Matter in Urban Areas.
Pictured from the left are: Dr Jurgita Ovadnevaite, NUI Galway (co-supervisor), Prof. Roy M. Harrison OBE, FRS, University of Birmingham (external examiner), Chunshui Lin (PhD candidate), Dr Chaosheng Zhang, NUI Galway (internal examiner) and Prof. Colin O’Dowd, NUI Galway (co-supervisor).
Martin Sharkey's PhD thesis was titled: Sources, concentrations, and remediation of hazardous brominated flame retardants from waste streams in Ireland.
Pictured from the left are: Crispin Halsall CChem FRSC, Professor of Environmental Organic Chemistry at Lancaster University (external examiner), Dr Marie Coggins, NUI Galway (internal examiner), Martin Sharkey (PhD candidate) and Dr Harald Berresheim, NUI Galway (supervisor).
Kai Neuhaus's PhD thesis was titled: The multispectral properties of multiple reference optical coherence tomography.
Pictured from the left are: Prof. Martin Leahy, NUI Galway (supervisor), Kai Neuhaus (PhD candidate), Dr Nicholas Devaney, NUI Galway (internal examiner) and Prof. Rainer Leitgeb, Medical University of Vienna (external examiner).
