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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.

Group members sat around a table tasting wine and cheese.

Wine and Cheese

Last Friday some of the members of the OSC got together to taste some excellent wine and cheese.

Merry Christmas from the OSO group

The group recently had our annual Christmas dinner to celebrate another year of research. The evening also featured the unveiling of the OLED Christmas jumper! Happy holidays everyone!  

Group birthday celebrations

Today we celebrated Graham and David’s birthdays with a special group coffee and cake. Happy birthday!

Goodbye Ramakant!

Today we had a special group coffee to say farewell to Ramakant. We are very grateful to have worked with him and wish him the best of luck with his new job at Quantum Science ltd in Daresbury.

PhD graduations 2023

Congratulations to Dr Stefan Diesing (pictured) and Dr Junyi Gong for completing their PhDs in the OSC and graduating today.