Category: Event

PhD viva – Dr Aswin Sasi

Congratulations to Dr Aswin Sasi for completing his PhD viva! Aswin and Graham celebrating with the group

Festive greetings 2025

Following another year of successful research the OSO group finished the year with a deep clean of the evaporator and our annual Christmas dinner celebration. Happy holidays everyone!

Visitors from National Taiwan University

This week we have been pleased to welcome Dr Nagarjuna Puvvala and Chu-Hsiang (Allen) Hsu from National Taiwan University as part of our growing collaboration in organic semiconductor optoelectronic research.

Welcome Olga

We are happy to welcome Olga Filippova to the group. She will be supervised by Prof Ifor Samuel and Prof Carlos Penedo, and her PhD research will focus on understanding the photophysical properties of conjugated…

Wilson Sibbett memorial symposium

Yesterday the School of Physics and Astronomy held the Wilson Sibbett memorial symposium. The day featured several talks from Wilson’s friends and colleagues who spoke movingly about his impact on their lives,…

Welcome Buddhika

This week we are very happy to welcome Dr Buddhika Karunathilaka to the group. He will be supervised by Prof Ifor Samuel and Prof Graham Turnbull, and his research will focus on developing organic lasers that operate…

Welcome Masato

This week we are pleased to welcome Masato Kato to the group. His PhD, supervised by Dr Jean-Charles Ribierre and Prof Ifor Samuel, will focus on researching Organic Hyperbolic Metamaterials for optoelectronic…

Optical Probes 2025 – Fukuoka

Ifor attended the Optical Probes meeting in Fukuoka last week, together with four former OSC members who now lead their own research groups (Prof John Lupton, Prof P. Rajamalli, Dr Gordon Hedley and Prof Paloma dos…

International day 2025

Today is international day in the school of Physics and Astronomy. It is a great opportunity to celebrate the diversity in the OSC that helps make our research world class.