New PhD students Maddie and Ben
This week two new PhD students have joined the group! Meet Maddie Fisher and Ben Paulukiewicz. Maddie will be investigating efficiency limitations in organic optoelectronic devices, while Ben will be studying…
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PhD viva – Dr Mina Riahi
Congratulations to Dr Mina Riahi for completing her PhD viva yesterday! Thanks also to her reviewers Dr Janet Lovett and Dr Paloma dos Santos.
PhD graduations summer 2024
This week we have celebrated the graduations of Dr Edward Ogugu and Dr Peter Brown who have both completed their PhDs.
Dr Toshihiko Tanaka visits the OSC
This week Dr Toshihiko Tanaka visited the OSC from RIKEN, Japan, to discuss recent advances in molecular alignment form organic optoelectronics.
Peter completes his viva
Congratulations to Dr Peter Brown on completing his PhD viva! We are all very proud of him, especially his supervisors Prof Eli Zysman-Colman and Prof Ifor Samuel. Thanks also to external examiner Prof Ardalan Armin.
Meeting group alumni
Ifor was pleased to meet former group member Guy Whitworth for dinner in Barcelona. Guy has been working at ICFO, a leading optics institute, following his PhD in St Andrews and returns to the UK on a fellowship…
PhD graduations 2023
Congratulations to Dr Stefan Diesing (pictured) and Dr Junyi Gong for completing their PhDs in the OSC and graduating today.
Spooky OLED applications
For Halloween the School of Physics and Astronomy held a pumpkin carving event, and we found a spooky application for some of our OLEDs.
New PhD student Liam King
We are pleased that Liam King is now beginning his PhD with us. He is studying ultrafast organic light emitting devices, supervised by Prof Ifor Samuel.
New group member Dr Sagarika Mishra
We are happy to welcome Dr Sagarika Mishra to the St Andrews Organic Semiconductor Centre. She is working with Dr Ross Gillanders at Lightwater sensors developing novel optical sensors for water contaminants including…