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2022 A F Harvey Prize winner – Professor John C. Travers

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  • Duration: 1 min
  • Publication date: 26 Sep 2025
  • Part of series A F Harvey Prize Lecture Series

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Professor John C. Travers, Director of the Laboratory of Ultrafast Physics and Optics at Heriot-Watt University, is the 12th recipient of the prestigious IET A F Harvey Engineering Research Prize, awarded for his outstanding contributions to lasers and optoelectronics.

In this special lecture, Professor Travers presents his groundbreaking research into a new technique for generating far-ultraviolet (FUV) light pulses—a development that significantly outperforms all previous technologies in this domain.


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    John C. Travers is Professor of Physics at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, and Director of the Laboratory of Ultrafast Physics and Optics. He creates new light sources with tailored, and often extreme, properties, and has made multiple significant contributions to ultrafast nonlinear optics.He is recognised as a pioneer of using gas-filled hollow waveguides for ultrafast frequency conversion, pulse compression and supercontinuum generation, and invented the technique to produce the brightest tuneable source of few-femtosecond vacuum-ultraviolet light pulses worldwide: a foundational technology. The light sources Professor Travers develops range from very small - for advanced industrial applications in the semiconductor industry and healthcare - to very large installations at facilities for fundamental science.Professor Travers received the MSci degree in Mathematics and Physics from Durham University, UK, in 2003 and the MSc and PhD degrees from Imperial College London (UK) in 2004 and 2008. He was an Imperial College Junior Research Fellow from 2009-2010, after which he moved to the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light in Erlangen, Germany, as a research group leader.In 2015 he was awarded the prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant and established his research group within the Institute of Photonics and Quantum Science at Heriot-Watt University, in 2016. He was promoted to full Professor of Physics in 2019 and awarded the ERC Consolidator Grant and elected Fellow of Optica in 2020.The outcomes of his research have been published in over 200 scientific articles, presented in over 100 invited talks, and received attention in a wide range of scientific news outlets.
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