Gavin Dalton

Professor of Astrophysics

I am working on wide‐field imaging and fibre‐fed spectroscopy instrumentation in visible and near‐infrared astronomy, both in instrument construction and science exploitation. My interests additionally include Cosmology, Galaxy Evolution, Instrument Design, Instrument Technologies, Applied Optics and Detector Design.

The widest-field spectroscopic instruments in astronomy are all fibre-fed, to allow multiple sight-lines on the sky to be reformatted to a single spectrograph entrance slit. Some of my current interests lie in photonics technology allowing for the suppression of the bright sky lines which dominate the observed background in the red and near-infrared parts of the spectrum at high spectral resolution. I am heavily involved in the FMOS instrument at Japan's Subaru 8.3m telescope, which is the only facility instrument in astronomy that implements direct suppression of the OH‐emission lines at near‐infrared wavelengths. My research is also applied to the ESO's 42m European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) and the William Herschel Telescope in La Palma.

For more information please visit my research pages.

Research area Materials and Devices Optical Physics

Research interests Astrophysics NIR detectors Photonic spectrographs

Department Physics

Yvonne Jones

Professor of Protein Crystallography

Yvonne Jones is director of the Cancer Research UK Receptor Structure Research Group which is primarily focused on the structural biology of cell surface recognition and signalling complexes.

Achillefs Kapanidis

Professor of Biological Physics

My group studies mechanisms and machines of gene expression using single-molecule biophysical methods and biochemistry.

Ji-Seon Kim

Professor of Electronic Materials

My research primarily focuses on sustainable molecular semiconductors, expanding into new classes of electronic materials such as mixed electronic/ionic conductors and organic/inorganic hybrids

Adam Kirrander

Professor of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry

My research interests are ultrafast imaging, quantum dynamics, and photochemistry.

Madhavi Krishnan

Professor of Physical Chemistry

Madhavi Krishnan is Associate Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Oxford.

Axel Kuhn

Associate Professor and Reader in Physics

I run the Atom-Photon Connection group, working on quantum optics and control, applied in particular to light-matter interactions at the single-quantum level.

Philipp Kukura

Professor of Physical Chemistry

My research is concerned with the development and application of spectroscopic and imaging tools designed to visualise, study and eventually control dynamic processes in chemistry and biology.

Christoffer Lagerholm

Facility Manager

I am the facility manager of the Wolfson Imaging Centre, based in the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine. We specialise in methods of fluorescence imaging, including single molecule and super-resolution (STED, STORM/PALM).

David Lucas

Professor of Physics

I am an experimental atomic physicist working in the field of trapped-ion quantum computing. Previously I worked on cold atoms in optical lattices, and precision measurements for tests of fundamental physics.

Alexander (Alex) Lvovsky

Professor

My research interests are quantum optics, quantum information, and optical computing