Morgan takes Bronze at STEM for Britain
Group member Dr Morgan Facchin has been awarded the Bronze Prize for the excellence of his research at the prestigious national competition STEM for BRITAIN 2025, held at the Houses of Parliament in Westminster.
The Parliamentary and Scientific Committee runs STEM for Britain in collaboration with the Institute of Physics and other learned societies – the Royal Academy of Engineering, Royal Society of Biology, Royal Society of Chemistry Physiological Society, Council for the Mathematical Sciences, and the Nutrition Society.
The event showcases the best of UK scientific research being carried out by early career researchers, and is in the only national competition of its kind. It aims to help politicians understand more about the UK’s thriving science and engineering base, and rewards some of the strongest scientific and engineering research being undertaken in the UK. Finalists present a poster describing their research, and must answer examining questions from a team of judges.
Morgan’s poster described how he uses light to detect the presence of harmful pigments in 19th Century Books, and details the deployment of the technique to collecting institutes around Scotland.
STEM for Britain involves some 200 or so early career scientists and Morgan’s poster was judged against other shortlisted physicists from across Britain, in a competition that also includes categories for researchers who are chemists, biologists, engineers and mathematicians. There are only three winners in each category, so Morgan’s Bronze is a fantastic achievement.
The poster can be found here.