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Wilson Sibbett memorial symposium

Yesterday the School of Physics and Astronomy held the Wilson Sibbett memorial symposium. The day featured several talks from Wilson’s friends and colleagues who spoke movingly about his impact on their lives,…

Ifor receives the Thomas Young Prize

Congratulations to Ifor Samuel for receiving the IOP Thomas Young Prize for world-leading research into OLEDs, organic lasers and their applications in technology and medicine. We are all very happy for him and this…

Coffee with new group members

This week’s group coffee saw us welcoming two new members to the group, Masato Kato for his PhD and Dr Buddhika Karunathilaka as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Masato brought some green tea chocolates for everyone to enjoy!

Welcome Buddhika

This week we are very happy to welcome Dr Buddhika Karunathilaka to the group. He will be supervised by Prof Ifor Samuel and Prof Graham Turnbull, and his research will focus on developing organic lasers that operate…

Welcome Masato

This week we are pleased to welcome Masato Kato to the group. His PhD, supervised by Dr Jean-Charles Ribierre and Prof Ifor Samuel, will focus on researching Organic Hyperbolic Metamaterials for optoelectronic…

Optical Probes 2025 – Fukuoka

Ifor attended the Optical Probes meeting in Fukuoka last week, together with four former OSC members who now lead their own research groups (Prof John Lupton, Prof P. Rajamalli, Dr Gordon Hedley and Prof Paloma dos…

Welcome Yamini

This week we are pleased to welcome Yamini Sharma to the group. She is visiting us from the IPCMS in Strasbourg. During her one month stay she will be researching the photophysics of TADF materials. Yamini (third from…

International day 2025

Today is international day in the school of Physics and Astronomy. It is a great opportunity to celebrate the diversity in the OSC that helps make our research world class.

Welcome Chico

We are happy to welcome Chico Paulics Bresler to the group for his PhD on the HISOPE project, researching fast organic optoelectronic materials and devices. He is jointly supervised by Prof Ifor Samuel and Prof Graham…