Category: General

PhD viva – Dr Thomas Sayner

Congratulations to Dr Thomas Sayner for completing his PhD viva earlier this week! After the viva there were some celebrations and parting gifts from the group. We wish him all the best with his new position in Spain!

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…

Photonics West 2026

Ifor attended Photonics West in San Francisco last week, the world’s largest photonics conference. He gave a talk on the groups advancements on Visible Light Communication, some of which are linked to the HISOPE…

IOP Technician Award

We would like to congratulate Martin McLaren on receiving the IOP Technician Award. He received this award for his work as technical manager, overseeing operations of the Centre for Designer Quantum Materials since its…

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…

Final year project students 2025

We are pleased to have a new cohort of final year project students join the group this year. Pictured here are two of our students, Angus Johnson (left), and Yichen Wang (right), and their respective supervisors Prof…

New project students

We are once again delighted that students from the school of Physics and Astronomy are joining us for their final year projects. We have five students this year who will be researching a range of topics from “photon…