Last week Sagarika Mishra attended SPIE Photonics and presented her work on “Luminescent Organic Nanoaggregates for Pollution Detection in Water” done in the OSC, engaging with talks from the experts in the organic semiconductor community. @ezc-group.bsky.social
Last week while in Strasbourg, Sagarika gave a talk at IPCMS, followed by engaging discussions with Dr Anthony Daleo and his group members. Thank you Dr Daleo for welcoming Sagarika!
Congratulations to the authors of "OLED-based photodynamic therapy treats bacterial infection in a preclinical ex vivo burn wound model", just accepted to Oxford's Burns and Trauma journal. This work was done in collaboration with KU Leuven in Belgium.
DOI: doi.org/10.1093/burn...
Congratulations to the authors of "Photoluminescence Turn-On Method to Determine the Kinetics of Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Materials", just published in Advanced Physics Research. This work was done in collaboration with @ezc-group.bsky.social
DOI: doi.org/10.1002/apxr...
Last week the group held a farewell social event to Dr Ross Gillanders, who will be moving to the Netherlands with Lightwater sensors, a spin-out from from the group. Ross will be leading the company and working closely with investors from there, and we wish him all the best!
Last week the group had the pleasure of welcoming Professor Ji-Seon Kim from University of Oxford. She presented the colloquium titled Fascinating Molecular Nature of Organic Semiconductors, where she delved into their different molecular properties and how these can be modified.
Last week some members of the group attended the SU2P symposium in Glasgow. Ifor, Olga and Masato can be seen attending the conference dinner. While in Glasgow, they took the opportunity to visit Dr. Gordon Hedley’s (group alumni) lab.
Congratulations to the authors of "A trade‐off between efficiency and stability in a class of sky‐blue organic light‐emitting diodes" just published in FlexMat. This work was done in collaboration with @ezc-group.bsky.social, and Fluxim AG in Switzerland.
DOI: doi.org/10.1002%2Ffl...
Congratulations to Dr Thomas Sayner for completing his PhD viva earlier this week! After the viva there were some celebrations and parting gifts from the group. We wish him all the best with his new position in Spain!
Last Friday some members of the group enjoyed a well deserved break from work to catch up over some drinks. Due to the recent closure of St Andrews' Brewdog, the group's social was hosted at Brewco, followed by a hearty dinner at Tulsi!
The 27th International Conference on Science and Technology of Synthetic Electronic Materials (ICSM 2026) is still accepting abstracts, with the submission deadline being extended to March 17th. We encourage applications to ensure a strong and diverse scientific program.
Congratulations to Dr Marianna Leite De Avellar on successfully passing her PhD Viva!
Colloquium speaker Sir Prof Michael Berry (right) and colloquium chair Prof Ifor Samuel (left).
Last week we were pleased to host St Andrews alumni Sir Professor Michael Berry who gave an interesting and insightful colloquium "A plurality of optical singularities: intensity, phase, polarisation".
Ifor attended Photonics West in San Francisco last week, the world's largest photonics conference. He gave a talk on the groups advancements on Visible Light Communication, some of which are linked to the HISOPE project.
Members of the group enjoyed the Scottish University Physics Alliance (SUPA) Energy Theme meeting and a Solar Power course, followed by dinner with lecturers. We had the pleasure of welcoming Prof. David Cohen, Dr Stephen Reynolds andDr Scott Doyle for guest lectures.
Congratulations to Dr Aswin Sasi for completing his PhD viva for his thesis 'Let there be light: Development and modelling of a novel illumination system to improve light availability, biomass production and pigment yield in photobioreactors'.
Following another year of successful research the OSO group finished the year with a deep clean of the evaporator and their annual Christmas dinner celebration. Happy holidays everyone!
This week we have been pleased to welcome Dr Nagarjuna Puvvala and Chu-Hsiang (Allen) Hsu from National Taiwan University as part of our growing collaboration in organic semiconductor optoelectronic research.
Congratulations Dr Michele Duarte Tonet!
We are happy to welcome Olga Filippova to the group. She will be supervised by Prof Ifor Samuel and Prof Carlos Penedo, and her PhD research will focus on understanding the photophysical properties of conjugated polymer chains at the single-molecule level.
Congratulations to the authors of "Exploring the Impact of the Presence of 9,9′-Spirobifluorene Moieties on the Performance of Carbonyl-Based Multiresonant Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Organic Light-Emitting Diodes" published in Advanced Optical Materials.
DOI: doi.org/10.1002/adom....
We would like to congratulate Martin McLaren on receiving the IOP Technician Award. He received this award for his work as technical manager, overseeing operations of the Centre for Designer Quantum Materials since its inception. Congratulations Martin! www.iop.org/about/awards...
Yesterday the School of Physics and Astronomy held the Wilson Sibbett memorial symposium. The day featured several talks from Wilson's friends and colleagues who spoke movingly about his impact on their lives, research, and the field of ultrafast photonics.
Ifor receives the Thomas Young Prize
Congratulations to Ifor on receiving the Thomas Young Prize for world-leading research into OLEDs, organic lasers and their applications in technology and medicine. This prize recognises that he has made distinguished contributions to the field of optics.
Last week's group coffee saw us welcoming two new members to the group, Masato Kato for his PhD and Dr Buddhika Karunathilaka as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Masato brought some green tea chocolates for everyone to enjoy!
This week we are very happy to welcome Dr Buddhika Karunathilaka to the group. He will be supervised by Prof Ifor Samuel and Prof Graham Turnbull, and his research will focus on developing organic lasers that operate under continuous-wave (CW) conditions.
Left to right: Prof Ifor Samuel, Masato Kato, Dr Jean-Charles Ribierre
This week we are pleased to welcome Masato Kato to the group. His PhD, supervised by Dr Jean-Charles Ribierre and Prof Ifor Samuel, will focus on researching Organic Hyperbolic Metamaterials for optoelectronic applications.
Ifor presenting at the Optical probes conference
Ifor with former OSC member Gordon Hedley and his former student Nicola FairBairn
Ifor attended the Optical Probes meeting in Fukuoka last week and gave an invited talk. Also attending were four former OSC members who now lead their own research groups (Prof John Lupton, Prof P. Rajamalli, Dr Gordon Hedley and Prof Paloma dos Santos).
This week we are pleased to welcome Yamini Sharma to the group. She is visiting us from the IPCMS in Strasbourg. During her one month stay she will be researching the photophysics of TADF materials.
Today is international day in the school of Physics and Astronomy. It is a great opportunity to celebrate the diversity in the OSC that helps make our research world class.