Welcome Lara!
Lara McCallion-gow is joining our group as a PhD student! She is supervised by Graham and her research project is titled “Optical sensors for trace chemical detection”. Welcome to the group!
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Welcome Mengjin!
Mengjin Dong is joining our group as a PhD student. She is co-supervised by Prof. Ifor Samuel, Dr Julia Payne and Dr Jean-Charles Ribierre. Her research focuses on lead-free perovskite lasers, particularly the…
New Group Photo
Today the group took the favourable weather as an opportunity to take a new group photo; the lack of winter jackets meant everyone could fit comfortably in the frame!
RSC collaborator grant
Congratulations! to Abhishek Kumar Gupta on being awarded the Royal Society of Chemisytry (RSC) Collaborator Grants. This prestigious award will support his collaboration with Ajou University, South Korea and IPCMS,…
Welcome Shikha!
Shikha Rani Barik is joining our group as a PhD student! She will work with Ifor and Jean-Charles, researching ‘Organic hyperbolic Metamaterials(OHM)’ for optoelectronic applications. She obtained her BSc (Chemistry)…
Group Potluck Dinner
Last Saturday Ifor hosted a Potluck dinner open to all members of the group, including three alumni Ashu Bansal, Andrew Matheson and Saydulla Persheyev. Everyone enjoyed a varied and delicious selection of foods, as…
Sibbett Memorial Lecture 2026 – Donna Strickland
Last week the school had the pleasure of welcoming Professor Donna Strickland, Nobel Laureate in Physics 2018, for the Sibbett Memorial Lecture 2026. In her talk, “From Nonlinear Optics to High-Intensity Laser…
TayHealthTech Gathering
Last week, Dr Hassan Hafeez and Andrew Docherty participated in the TayHealthTech Gathering at the Apex Hotel in Dundee. Their project, which focuses on the development of a wearable device for photodynamic therapy,…
Pint of Science
Last Wednesday Ifor and Hassan presented some of the research conducted in the group to a wide audience of non-scientists during the Pint of Science event. This was a great event featuring interdisciplinary researchers…
PhD Annual Assessment Conference 2026
Last week the 2026 PhD Annual Assessment Conference was held, and featured presentations from Kaiyang and Yuchen, as well as posters from Liam and Saban. They got the opportunity to present their research to the entire…