Rob Jacobs

Facility Manger

My research interests are focused around applying state of the art instrumentation in surface science to novel problems. This has lead me into a wide range of fields including, amongst others, nanotechnology, electrochemistry and biotechnology.

My role in the Chemistry Department is as the Instrument Scientist and Manager responsible for the Surface Analysis Facility (SAF). This is a suite of equipment housed in several purpose built laboratories in the basement of the Chemistry Research Laboratory. The SAF contains a wide variety of state of the art scientific equipment capable of many experimental methods including: atomic force microscopy, scanning tunnelling microscopy, Fourier transform infra-red spectroscopy (including IRRAS, PMIRRAS and ATR spectroscopy), ellipsometry, X-ray reflectometry, surface characterisation by gas adsorption (surface area, pore size distribution etc.) and dynamic surface tension and contact angle measurements.

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Research area Imaging Spectroscopy

Research interests Microscopy Nanotechnology

Department Chemistry

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