Outreach
The first measurement of amplification from a rotating absorber, the so-called Zel’dovich effect, isnpired by Roger Penrose’s idea that rotating black holes can amplify waves.
Video by Marion Cromb, first author on our Nature Physics paper.
In collaboration with artist Lily Hibberd: fluids of light, time and slow light.
Video conceived for “Contemporary Connections””art exhibit at the Edinburgh Science Festival 2017.
Interview with artist Lily Hibberd and scientist Daniele Faccio, for “Contemporary Connections” art exhibit at the Edinburgh Science Festival 2017.
Learn how to see behind walls in this video (2015).
Museum Exhibition (Paris, Dec 2015)
“First Light”, a collaboration with artist Lily Hibberd
Below: left: exhibition advert, right: video projected at the Musee des Arts et Metiers, Paris, prepared by Lily Hibberd
TEDx video – Imaging at the speed of light (2015).
Discovery Channel documentary “Strip the Cosmos, Black Holes”, featuring interviews and footage from our lab at Heriot-Watt University (premiered January 2015).
Video explaining how to make a black hole in the lab using lasers.
Light in Flight video featured on New Scientist YouTube channel.
Single photon imaging and the Royals Society Summer Science Exhibition (2014).
BBC news interview on black hole experiments (2012).