Job Title:
PhD ResearcherFormal Position Within the Project:
Research StudentPrimary Activities on the Project:
Daniel has primarily been involved with developing a metasurface that can accomplish all the necessary optical manipulations to perform as an ultra-compact confocal sensor. He is also involved in designing and characterising new multi-metasurface designs for tunable metasurface and optical alignment applications.Professional Bio:
Daniel J. Townend is currently a PhD Researcher at the Centre for Precision Technologies, University of Huddersfield. He received his MPhys degree in Physics, 1st (Hons), from the University of Hull, graduating in 2020. His primary academic interests include metrology, metamaterials, nanofabrication, and microscopy. He has expertise in the design of metasurfaces, particularly designs involving the interleaving of multiple functions into a single metasurface, as well as their subsequent optical characterisation using bespoke designed optical setups. Daniel was the recipient of a scholarship from the Worshipful Company of Scientific Instrument Makers in 2022.
