1. Polina Leopoldovna Bayvel is a British engineer and academic.
15 Facts About Polina Bayvel
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Polina Bayvel has made major contributions to the investigation and design of high-bandwidth multiwavelength optical networking.
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Polina Bayvel was educated in England at Hasmonean High School for Girls and University College London where she was awarded a Bachelor of Engineering degree in 1986 followed by a PhD in 1990.
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Polina Bayvel's research has focused on maximising the speed and capacity of optical fibre communication systems, and the fundamental studies of capacity-limiting optical nonlinearities and their mitigation.
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Polina Bayvel has made major contributions to the investigation and design of high-bandwidth, multi-wavelength optical communication networks.
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Polina Bayvel was one of the first to show the feasibility of using the wavelength domain for routing in optical networks over a range of distance- and time-scales.
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Polina Bayvel has established the applicability of these new optical network architecture concepts, which have been widely implemented in commercial systems and networks.
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Polina Bayvel's research has been funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.
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Polina Bayvel won the Institute of Physics Clifford Paterson Medal and Prize in 2002.
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Polina Bayvel was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2002 and was awarded the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Photonic Society Engineering Achievement Award in 2013.
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Polina Bayvel was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Science degree in 2014 by the University of South Wales.
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Polina Bayvel was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2016.
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Polina Bayvel was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to engineering.
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In 2023, Polina Bayvel was awarded the Royal Society Rumford Medal for pioneering contributions to the fundamental physics and nonlinear optics, enabling the realization of high capacity, broad bandwidth, multi-wavelength, optical communication systems that have underpinned the information technology revolution.
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Polina Bayvel is the first woman to be awarded this medal since the medal was instituted in 1800.