I studied at Glasgow and St Andrews Universities before working as a postdoc and education-focused lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. I was awarded a Research into Ageing Fellowship to return to the University of…
Kishan Dholakia (FRSE, OSA Fellow, SPIE Fellow) obtained his PhD in Lasers Physics from Imperial College. He was a Royal Society of Edinburgh Research Fellow at the University of St Andrews (1997-2000) and become…
Following a PhD at the University of Göttingen, Germany, and postdocs in Dundee and Edinburgh, I moved to St Andrews in 2012, where I was promoted to lecturer in 2015. My position is a joint appointment between the…
Mike MacDonald gained a BSc in Laser Physics and Optoelectronics from the University of Strathclyde in 1996 followed by an MSc (1998) and PhD (2000), both from Berne University where he developed high-power solid-state…
Tom Vettenburg joined the University of Dundee in 2018 as a Lecturer in Physics. Recently he was awarded a £1.4M UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship to start his research group on Computational Microscopy. Tom’s research…
I am a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow at the School of Physics and Astronomy. My research ranges from material science to biophotonics and focusses on the development of novel microscopic lasers and their…
Prof. Samuel studied for both his MA and PhD in Physics at Cambridge where he developed his interest in time-resolved fluorescence and light-emitting materials. After finishing his PhD he moved to Paris and worked with…
Dr Michael Mazilu is a Senior Lecturer at the University of St Andrews with a background in semiconductor physics, photonic crystals and biophotonics. He is currently working in the fields of optical micromanipulation,…
I did my undergraduate degree at Colby College, then went on to do a PhD at Brandeis University in the labs of Eve Marder and Leslie Griffith. I completed postdoctoral fellowships at University of Cambridge and Janelia…
Tom undertook a BSc in Physics at Imperial College London graduating in 1993. Following a period of employment for the Defence Research Agency, Tom completed a PhD at the University of Southampton, graduating in 1997.…