The winners have now been selected for IOM3’s Young Persons’ Lecture Competition, of which Royce is a key sponsor, alongside the Worshipful Company of Armourers & Brasiers, Lucideon and East Midlands Materials Society.
Organised by the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3) the Young Persons’ Lecture Competition invites students and early career professionals (between ages 18 to 28) to deliver a short lecture on a materials, minerals, mining, packaging, clay technology, wood science or engineering related subject.
First place goes to Dr Hamish Dow, a Research Associate at the University of Strathclyde’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. His research investigates novel AI-based imaging methods for detecting and quantifying concrete structure defects.
Hamish’s winning lecture explained how AI can be used for visual inspections, highlighted innovative concrete inspection methods developed at the University of Strathclyde, and presented real-world, Strathclyde-led, case studies demonstrating AI-driven inspection
The results were announced yesterday 8th May at The Armourers Hall. Among the judging panel was Dr Katie Moore, Royce Research Area Lead for Imaging and Characterisation and Senior Lecturer in Materials Characterisation at the University of Manchester.
The other winners are:
Second place: Samual Ngombe, South West & South Wales – Samual is a third-year EngD student at Swansea University, working on scaling up the commercial potential of next-generation perovskite solar cells.
Third place: Emma Bryan, South East – Emma is a PhD student in the Materials department at Imperial College London, researching molecular semiconductors.
Cash prizes were given to the top three places.
Congratulations to Hamish, Samual and Emma, plus all the other finalists!
Find out more about IOM3 here: https://www.iom3.org/
