Month: September 2026

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…