b'Member News November 2021 13The future of engineeringOur 2021 PostgraduateResearch Award Winners Back in June, after a rigorous application and interview process, we presented seven Postgraduate Researchers prizes ranging from 2,500 to 10,000. Each year, winners are awarded for excellence, carrying out innovative research in significant areas of engineering.The awards are open to IET members at universities around the world whove startedtheir research programme, read on to find out more. Congratulations to our winner Daniel Hoare who won the IET Postgraduate Scholarship forPhD student Eva BestelinkUniversity of Cambridge an outstandingis at the AdvancedPhD student Stephanie researcher.Technology Institute,Adeyemo is conducting Daniel is a PhD student atUniversity of Surrey. Priorresearch on utilising terahertz the University of Glasgow,to her BEng degree, shespectroscopy, a contact-free designing and fabricatingwas a mature studentand non-destructive optical nanosensors for integrationundergoing a careercharacterisation technique, into implantable vascularchange. During her MScto study the optoelectronic devices.Bochen Shi, won thein Neuroscience, sheproperties of nanomaterials Hudswell Internationaldiscovered mind-controlledparticularly of tin-based Research Scholarshipprosthetics and decided tometal halide perovskites and is a PhDpursue a career in robotics. and nanowires.candidate at Tsinghua University in China. Kyle Walker is at the University of Edinburgh. He works on the discreteHis research focuses on developing predictive state event-drivencontrol methods for subsea vehicles, with the aim modelling and simulationof improving their ability to operate in adverse of power electronicsconditions around marine renewable devices.systems and the development of DSIMPhD student Chao Gong is at the University software. The scholarshipof York. His research interest is safety of high-will help Bochen share hisvoltage powertrain based electric vehicles.By implanting sensorswork with the world-wide into a patients body,community in power he hopes that this willand energy and supportJennifer Morris, at the University of enable doctors to behis research in real-timeStrathclyde, is focusing on the control of able to remotely monitorsimulation of powerpower electronic converters for connecting conditions without theelectronics. offshore wind farms to weak AC networksneed for them to go intovia HVDC.hospital. Most importantly this will enable earlyIf youre inspired and looking for extra funding to help your studies go further,detection and treatment ofapply now for our 2022 Postgraduate Research Awardsapplications are open!diseases which will lead toGo to theiet.org/postgrad and click apply.better patient outcomes.'