Madhavi Krishnan

Professor of Physical Chemistry

Madhavi Krishnan is a Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Oxford. She did her undergraduate work at Anna University, Madras, India followed by a PhD at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Supported by Alexander von Humboldt and Marie Curie Fellowships she carried out postdoctoral work in single molecule biophysics and nano-optics at Technical University Dresden and ETH Zurich respectively. In 2012, following a brief stint as a Visiting Scholar at Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences she was appointed Assistant Professor in Physical Chemistry at the University of Zurich and received a Professorship of the Swiss National Science Foundation. She was awarded the 2016 Nernst-Haber-Bodenstein prize in Physical Chemistry for her current research which examines molecular electrostatics in the fluid phase, including both experiment and theory. The group has recently pioneered an optical measurement technique that reads out molecular electrical charge with unprecedentedly high precision, and is also exploring the use of single molecules as probes for highly accurate measurements of interaction potentials in solution.

Her research group can be found here: https://krishnan.chem.ox.ac.uk/

Research area Imaging Materials and Devices Optical Physics

Research interests Molecular electrostatics in the fluid phase Optical measurement techniques

Department Chemistry

Dirk Aarts

Professor of Chemistry

We are working in soft condensed matter with a focus on the phase, interface and flow behaviour of colloidal particles.

Harry Anderson FRS

Professor of Chemistry

Our group does research in the areas of molecular materials synthesis, supramolecular chemistry, molecular recognition, polymers and dyes.

Huriye Atilgan

Postdoctoral Researcher, Henry Wellcome Fellow

Postdoctoral Researcher, Henry Wellcome Fellow Research interests: Auditory neuroscience, Auditory scene analysis, Neural circuit mechanisms of value-based decision making, Role of the claustrum in cognition (modulation, large-scale cortical communication), Use of advanced methods in neuroscience

Abhishek Banerjee

Professor of Neuroscience at Queen Mary University, London and Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellow at University of Oxford

We are interested in studying neural circuit mechanisms underlying the flexibility of decision-making and how circuit dysfunctions arise in animal models of neurological disorders.

Richard Berry

Associate Professor of Physics

My research is focused on rotary molecular motors, in particular the Bacterial Flagellar Motor, which is a rotary molecular engine powered by the flow of ions across the inner, or cytoplasmic, membrane of a bacterial cell envelope.

Harish Bhaskaran

Professor of Applied Nanomaterials

I run the Advanced Nanoscale Engineering Lab.

Ruy Sebastian Bonilla

Associate Professor of Materials

My research aims to understand the interfaces between electronic materials, to develop new processing for advanced nanolayer materials, and to apply them to new and improved electronic, optical, electrochemical, and computing devices.

Martin Booth

Professor of Electrical Engineering

My research interests lie in the theory and practice of dynamic optics, particularly the use of adaptive optical elements in high resolution microscopy and ultrafast laser fabrication.

Randy Bruno

Professor of Neuroscience

My lab investigates the workings of cortical circuitry, using a combination of techniques: anatomy, intracellular recording, two-photon microscopy, optogenetics, and behavior.

Gianfelice Cinque

Diamond Light Source and University of Oxford (honorary)

My main research focus is on IR microspectroscopy in (bio)physics and biomedicine, synchrotron radiation spectroscopy and imaging, and on the development of near field IR imaging and Coherent SR THz spectroscopy techniques.