--- title: Chris Dawson surname: Dawson role: PhD 2020 alumnus: true weight: 70 links: - name: LinkedIn url: https://www.linkedin.com/in/c-j-dawson/ --- **PhD student, to 2020** {{< links >}} Chris completed his PhD in the group in 2020, [*Spectral Analysis and Parameter Estimation in Levitated Optomechanics*](/publications/theses/2020_Chris_Dawson.pdf), with work on spectral estimation for levitated optomechanics (Dawson & Bateman, *J. Opt. Soc. Am. B* **36**, 1565 (2018)).