Congratulations to Dr Laura Russell
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Laura Russell successfully defended her PhD thesis on Characterisation and spectroscopy of laser-cooled atoms with an optical nanofibre before Drs Tim Freegarde (Southampton) and Bob Manning (Tyndall-UCC). Well done, Dr Russell!