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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!

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…

St Andrews Industry Day 2026

Light for Life: Optical Innovations in Health Imaging, Sensing and Spectroscopy, this year’s annual industry day, took place yesterday in the school of physics. It featured talks from Graham and Ifor, as well as Alison…

SPIE Optics and Photonics 2026

Last week Ifor and Eli from the OSC gave invited talks at the SPIE Optics and Photonics meeting in San Diego.  Eli talked about developing new OLED materials, and Ifor showed how organic semiconductors can make very…

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!

ICSM 2026

Members of the OSC recently gave 7 presentations at the ICSM conference, the leading conference in our field.  It was held in Rio de Janeiro and our talks covered LiFi, lasers, new materials and high brightness OLEDs.…

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,…

Graduation Summer 2026

Last week the 2026 Summer graduation ceremony took place for the school of physics and astronomy. Among them were Dr Thomas Sayner, Dr Michele Duarte Tonet and Dr Marianna Leite De Avellar, all of whom received their…

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)…