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Kishan Dholakia finalist for 2025 SA Scientist of the Year

Centre Director Kishan Dholakia is one of three finalists of prestigious the SA Scientist of the Year award 2025, together with Heike Ebendorff-Heidepriem and Matthew Gilliham.
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Centre resesearchers at Science Alive! 2025

Centre researchers participated in the 2025 Science Alive! event, with postdoc Dr Chris Perrella, representing the Australian Institute of Physics, and PhD students Gabriel Britto Monteiro and Zane Peterkovic, representing the Adelaide Optica Chapter.
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Ane Kritzinger finalist for 3 Minute Thesis Competition

Centre PhD student Ané Kritzinger was chosen as one of the finalists in the 3 Minute Thesis Competition, and will go on as one of the representives for the Faculty of Sciences, Engineering, and Technology at the University of Adelaide.
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Structured Light Reveals New Insights Into Radiation Pressure

Researchers from the Centre of Light for life have published a new article titled “Radiation pressure revisited: historical context and the role of structured light,” in the Journal of Optics.
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