Michael Heynck will be at International Conference on Ultrahigh Intensity Lasers (ICUIL 2026), on 13 October, in St Andrews, UK. St Andrews is only 2 hours from Edinburgh, where LUPO is located at Heriot-Watt University. He’ll be at home. Come and see his presentation.

Our very welcome to the new PhD Joselyn Guerrero Cabrera!

Joselyn joins us from the CFEL-ATTO group in Hamburg, where she completed her Master in Physics and Photonics through the LASCALA Erasmus Mundus Joint Master program. She will be part of the team on the ERC Starting Grant project FASTER led by Christian Brahms.

Our LUPO team members Deepjyoti Satpathy and Nikoleta Kotsina will be at Optica Laser Congress 2026, High-Intensity Lasers and High-Field Phenomena (HILAS), on 14-15 October, in Vilnius, Lithuania. Come along to see their presentations.

Next week, our LUPO team member Mohammed Sabbah will be at Europhoton 2026, on Wednesday, 23 September, in Arcachon, France. Come along to see his presentation. You can also check Mohammed’s recent work here.

On Wednesday, 9 September 2026, we held the EPS PGR Day, an event to showcase the postgraduate research (PGR) of the School of Engineering and Physical Sciences (EPS). We are glad to see our LUPO member, Deepjyoti Satpathy, win the 2nd Year Prize in recognition of his performance during the postgraduate study.