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.

There are three mains themes running currently in our work: (i) We use ultrafast spectroscopy to study the role of conical intersections in mediating efficient photochemistry and photophysics in condensed phase reaction dynamics; (ii) real time nanodynamics, we are developing a novel interferometric imaging technique based on light scattering (ISCAT) for fast localisation of single emitters, allowing us to study the mechanisms of molecular motors, dynamics at interfaces and polymer properties; and (iii) we aim to access both ultrashort time and ultrasmall length scales to ultimately study and control coherent phenomena at the nanoparticle and eventually single molecule level.

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Research area Biophotonics Imaging Spectroscopy

Research interests Biophysics Nanoscopy Ultrafast spectroscopy

Department Chemistry

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.