Chris Goodwin, a postdoc researcher in our group, recently won the IOP Low Temperature Thesis Prize for 2024. The prize is awarded for the PhD thesis that makes the strongest contribution to the development of low temperature physics and technology that year. Chris was awarded the prize for developing a sub-Kelvin imaging system to observe quantum turbulence in superfluid helium, the first apparatus of its kind capable of operating in the zero temperature limit. The system uses observations of micron-sized tracer particles, interacting with quantized vortices in a sample of pure superfluid, to extend our understanding of the dynamics of quantum turbulence.
