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…
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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…
International Conference on Electroluminescence and Optoelectronic Devices
Four members of the OSC presented work at the International Conference on Electroluminescence and Optoelectronic Devices (ICEL) in Namur, Belgium this week. Ifor and Eli’s talks discussed how to understand and overcome…
SU2P and a Visit
Last week some members of the group attended the SU2P symposium in Glasgow. SU2P was established as partnership between Scottish Universities and Stanford University supporting research exchanges in photonics and the…
ICSM 2026 Call for Abstracts
The 27th International Conference on Science and Technology of Synthetic Electronic Materials (ICSM 2026) is still accepting abstracts, with the submission deadline being extended to March 17th. We encourage every…
Sir Professor Michael Berry visit
Last week we were pleased to host St Andrews alumni Sir Professor Michael Berry who gave an interesting and insightful colloquium “A plurality of optical singularities: intensity, phase, polarisation”. Colloquium…
Energy Theme meeting and Solar Power course Dinner
Members of the group enjoyed the Scottish University Physics Alliance (SUPA) Energy Theme meeting and a Solar Power course, followed by dinner with lecturers. We had the pleasure of welcoming Prof. David Cohen, Dr…
PhD viva – Dr Aswin Sasi
Congratulations to Dr Aswin Sasi for completing his PhD viva! Aswin and Graham celebrating with the group
Visitors from National Taiwan University
This week we have been pleased to welcome Dr Nagarjuna Puvvala and Chu-Hsiang (Allen) Hsu from National Taiwan University as part of our growing collaboration in organic semiconductor optoelectronic research.
PhD viva – Dr Michele Duarte Tonet
Congratulations to Dr Michele Duarte Tonet completing her PhD viva yesterday! Thanks also to her reviewers Prof Carlos Penedo and Dr Gordon Hedley.