Category: Social

David completes his viva

We are very proud to announce that yesterday Dr David Webster completed his PhD viva! Well done Dr Webster!

Welcome Kaiyang

We are very pleased to welcome Kaiyang Wei to the group for his PhD project researching TADF organic lasers. He is jointly supervised by Prof Ifor Samuel and Prof Graham Turnbull, as well as Uli Lemmer at the Karlsruhe…

Happy holidays! 2024

Yesterday the group held our annual Christmas dinner, celebrating another year of successful research. This years celebration featured the HO HO HOLED Christmas hat modelled by Thomas. Happy holidays!

Pumpkin Carving – Halloween 2024

Today members of the group entered the Physics and Astronomy department’s annual pumpkin carving competition. Thomas, Edward, Michele, Hassan, and Maddie’s entry was titled “gruesome group meeting” (left), whilst…

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.

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.