An early-career researcher at Heriot-Watt University, Hollie Wright develops dual-comb based lidars. 

Lidar sensors are already widely adopted for many applications, however, the electronic timing response of photodetectors limits the resolution of time-of-flight (ToF) lidar to ~1cm. To address this limitation, Dr Wright has developed a dual-comb approach, which improves the resolution by a factor of 10,000. She believes this technology will be as broadly applicable in the future as conventional lidar; the current focus is on applications in sustainable manufacturing.