Hearty congratulations to Annie, who has defended her thesis, "Measuring and modeling light scattering in disordered systems for applications in structural color"!

Congrast to Annie for winning 1st place in the Science as Art competition at the 2018 Applied Physics Festival at Harvard!

Her photo shows polystyrene nanospheres in a polycrystalline arrangement that gives rise to iridescent structural color. The image was captured through the eyepiece of a microscope, which is why we see a circular field of view surrounded by darkness, resembling a planet in space. The name of the piece is "Soft Colors from Another Planet", inspired by the album "Soft Sounds from Another Planet" by Japanese Breakfast. 

Annie and Victoria were invited to speak on the Harvard GSAS podcast Veritalk! Make sure to listen to them talk about their work on structural color and and bird feathers.