Sir Professor Michael Berry visit
Last week we were pleased to host St Andrews alumni Sir Professor Michael Berry who gave an interesting and insightful colloquium “A plurality of optical singularities: intensity, phase, polarisation”.
Category: Social
Energy Theme meeting and Solar Power course Dinner
Members of the group enjoyed the Scottish University Physics Alliance (SUPA) Energy Theme meeting and a Solar Power course, followed by dinner with lecturers. We had the pleasure of welcoming Prof. David Cohen, Dr…
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!
PhD viva – Dr Michele Duarte Tonet
Congratulations to Dr Michele Duarte Tonet completing her PhD viva yesterday! Thanks also to her reviewers Prof Carlos Penedo and Dr Gordon Hedley.
Coffee with new group members
This week’s group coffee saw us welcoming two new members to the group, Masato Kato for his PhD and Dr Buddhika Karunathilaka as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Masato brought some green tea chocolates for everyone to enjoy!
Welcome Yamini
This week we are pleased to welcome Yamini Sharma to the group. She is visiting us from the IPCMS in Strasbourg. During her one month stay she will be researching the photophysics of TADF materials. Yamini (third from…
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.
Welcome Shintaro
This week we are pleased to welcome Shintaro Kohata to the group. He is visiting us from the Adachi lab at Kyushu University. During his two month stay he will be investigating photophysics in novel TADF systems. Today…
Happy Birthday Ifor!
Today we celebrated Ifor’s birthday with some cake and pastries. Happy birthday Ifor, we hope you enjoy the presents!
Anthony D’Aléo visit
The OSC are pleased to welcome Anthony D’Aléo, senior researcher at the Institut de Physique et de Chimie des Matériaux de Strasbourg – IPCMS, who is visiting this week. He is second from the left in the picture, taken…