Ludmilla Steier

Associate Professor of Inorganic Chemistry

Professor Ludmilla Steier is Associate Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at Oxford whose research addresses solar-driven conversion of small molecules (CO₂, water) into fuels and chemicals using photo- and electrocatalysts. Her work emphasizes designing and controlling catalyst surfaces and interfaces, particularly focusing on defect chemistry to enhance activity, selectivity, and long-term stability. She is developing atomic layer deposition (ALD) methods to grow catalysts with clean, controlled surfaces, and investigating how dopants affect photocatalytic performance. Her group explores a range of oxide materials including oxide perovskites and increasingly also sulfide photocatalysts.

https://steiergroup.web.ox.ac.uk/

Matthew Fuchter

Professor of Chemistry

My research group focus is on functional molecules, chiral materials, and photoswitchable systems with applications across materials science, medicine and sustainable technologies

Gianluca Gregori

Professor of Physics

My research interests are: Laboratory Astrophysics; Fusion energy; Quantum plasmas; Fundamental physics with high-power lasers

Chao He

Associate Professor of Engineering Science

My research interests include polarisation optics, biomedical microscopy and vectorial imaging

Laura Herz

Professor of Physics

My research is focused on investigating nanostructured molecular and inorganic semiconducting materials

Doug Higgs

Emeritus Professor, Consultant Physician

We use state-of-the-art laboratory and computational approaches to understand how mammalian genes are switched on and off during development and differentiation and how this goes awry in human genetic diseases.

Felix Hofmann

Professor of Engineering Science

I’m interested in the effect of defects on material properties, ranging from single atom defects, such as vacancies and interstitials, to extended defects, such as dislocations, to macroscopic defects, for example cracks and voids.