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…
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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…
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)…
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…
2026 Biophotonics Summer School
Olga recently attended the Summer Biophotonics School organised by Professor Carlos Penedo and Dr Paolo Annibale at the University of St Andrews. The programme combined theoretical lectures on a range of experimental…
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,…