Stuart Mackenzie

Professor of Chemistry, Head of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory

My research in photonics revolves around the development of novel spectroscopic techniques applied to a variety of interesting scientific problems. In particular we are interested in the study of dynamical interfacial phenomena and spectroscopy in the condensed phase.

In the last decade, cavity-based optical techniques such as cavity ring-down and cavity enhanced absorption spectroscopy have revolutionised sensitive gas-phase trace detection. Extension of the technique to the condensed phase has been comparatively slow and yet it is here that such methods could help address important technological problems. We are developing a range of fast condensed phase variants of both cavity ring-down and cavity enhanced absorption spectroscopy including some utilising evanescent fields and supercontinuum sources in order to study dynamical interfacial phenomena. Recent systems studied include the seeding and growth of nanostructured materials, DNA assisted desorption of porphyrins and redox reactions of surface immobilised cytochrome-c.

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Research area Spectroscopy

Research interests Cavity ringdown spectroscopy Cavity-enhanced spectroscopy Ultrasensitive 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.