Welcome Yuchen
We are pleased to welcome new PhD student Yuchen Zhang to the group! She will be researching solar cells and photodiodes for communications, supervised by Prof Ifor Samuel.
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New PhD students Maddie and Ben
This week two new PhD students have joined the group! Meet Maddie Fisher and Ben Paulukiewicz. Maddie will be investigating efficiency limitations in organic optoelectronic devices, while Ben will be studying…
International Day 2024
On Monday this week, the School of Physics and Astronomy celebrated international day! Several members of the group joined the celebrations by wearing national dress and bringing food from around the world. Photo…
Happy birthday Prof Ifor Samuel
Today members of the OSC in Physics and Astronomy celebrated Prof Ifor Samuel’s birthday. One of his gifts was a Nature paper style birthday card. Happy birthday Ifor!
PhD viva – Dr Mina Riahi
Congratulations to Dr Mina Riahi for completing her PhD viva yesterday! Thanks also to her reviewers Dr Janet Lovett and Dr Paloma dos Santos.
PhD graduations summer 2024
This week we have celebrated the graduations of Dr Edward Ogugu and Dr Peter Brown who have both completed their PhDs.
A champagne celebration
Yesterday the group celebrated the publication of the new nature paper with a Jeroboam of Champagne!
Peter completes his viva
Congratulations to Dr Peter Brown on completing his PhD viva! We are all very proud of him, especially his supervisors Prof Eli Zysman-Colman and Prof Ifor Samuel. Thanks also to external examiner Prof Ardalan Armin.
Meeting group alumni
Ifor was pleased to meet former group member Guy Whitworth for dinner in Barcelona. Guy has been working at ICFO, a leading optics institute, following his PhD in St Andrews and returns to the UK on a fellowship…
Lithuanian Independence Restoration Day
Today the group is celebrating Lithuanian Independence Restoration day with Arvydas and Eglė. Here they are after independently giving talks at group meeting this morning.