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Nicholas Harrigan, a physicist from Imperial College, has won the 2007 NESTA Famelab competition – a national competition supported by RCUK. The postgraduate student in Quantum Optics took to the stage at the Cheltenham Science Festival in full chef's outfit to demonstrate the science of microwaves. After wowing the audience by making a light bulb light up in a microwave oven he went on to enlighten them on how microwaves create heat in food.
One of the runners up in the competition was Jan Schnupp, a Research Council funded Neurobiologist from the University of Oxford. Jan impressed the judges with his witty and enlightening talks on pleasure centres in the brain.
NESTA Famelab is an exciting national competition to find the new voices of UK engineering. It is the brainchild of the Cheltenham Science Festival and NESTA – the National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts. It is supported by Research Councils UK (RCUK), Channel 4, The Daily Telegraph and the British Council.
For more information on Famelab and the Famelab final, please visit the Famelab website