Former Group Members

Dr Nadhia Monim		Postgraduate (PhD) Student Integrated compound semiconductor lab-on-chip optical biosensor Completed PhD in 2024.
Dr Barbara Santos Gomes		Research Associate on Ser Cymru funded Project Integrated compound semiconductor lab-on-chip optical biosensor enabling infectious disease diagnostics at the point-of-care Left in 2023
Dr Samuel Hamilton		Postgraduate (PhD) Student Measuring the sp3/sp2 carbon content ratio in a single nanodiamond using quantitative optical microscopy Completed PhD in 2023, Moved to CoolLED, Andover, UK
Dr Dafydd Sian Harlow		was Postgraduate (PhD) Student Sensing local biomolecular environments with coherent optical nanoscopy Completed PhD in 2022. Moved to Lightcast Discovery Ltd in Cambridge, UK
Dr Yisu Wang		was Postgraduate (PhD) Student Novel plasmonic nanoparticles for applications in quantitative biosensing and bioimaging Completed PhD in 2020.Then Research Associate on BBSRC funded project Lipid droplets in oocytes: shedding new light on why fats are good or bad for development Moved 2021 to Bristol
MSc Mansur Can		Postgraduate (PhD) Student Nanoparticle characterization combining optical microscopy, image analysis, and simulation Left in 2022
Dr Dale Boorman		was Postgraduate (PhD) Student Exploring CARS Microscopy as a Tool for Drug Discovery Completed PhD in 2020. Then Research Associate on 3DBioNet project Incorporating deuterium into 3D organoids to identify cell types and track cellular metabolic rates using CARS microscopy Moved 2020 to the public sector UK BBSRC
Dr. Sumanth Kumar. D		Research Associate on the EPSRC funded project Controlled long-range coherent coupling of solid-state qubits Moved in 2020 to India
Dr Alexander Nahmad-Rohen		Postgraduate (PhD) Student Multiplex coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering microscopy and its application to living cells Completed PhD in 2020.
Dr Joseph Bleddyn Williams		Postgraduate (PhD) Student Quantitative spatio-temporal study of single membrane proteins and lipid domains with label-free super-resolution optical microscopy Completed PhD in 2020.
Dr Tual Monfort		Research Associate on BBSRC funded Project A label-free tool to unravel the dynamics of lipid bilayers containing single membrane proteins: iGOR microscopy Moved in 2020 to ESPCI Paris
MBio Jacob Robert Pope		Postgraduate (PhD) Student Quantitative spatio-temporal dynamics of membrane proteins and lipid domains measured by label-free optical microscopy Moved in 2019 to the public sector UK
Dr Ioannis Pitsios		Research Associate on EPSRC funded Project 4PI Two-photon Lithography for Isotropic 3D Nanostructure Fabrication Moved in 2019 to VitreaLab GmbH
Dr Evgeniia Lobanova		Postgraduate (PhD) Student Quantitative imaging of lipid domains with label-free optical microscopy in Alzheimer's disease Completed PhD in 2020
MChem Ryan Lewis		Postgraduate (PhD) Student Novel multiphoton microscopy of living cells using nanodiamonds Left in 2019
Dr Lorenzo Scarpelli		Postgraduate (PhD) Student Multidimensional non-linear spectroscopy and coherent manipulation of single and coupled quantum dots Completed PhD in 2019, moved to Sydney Australia, Centre of Excellence Engineered Quantum Systems (Macquarie University)
Dr Robin Islam		Postgraduate (PhD) Student Optical biosensors based on imaging of whispering-gallery modes in microsphere resonators Completed PhD in 2019, moved to Sweden to work in private sector.
Dr Josephine Bradley		Was a Postgraduate (PhD) Student and then Research Associate on BBSRC funded project Lipid droplets in oocytes: shedding new light on why fats are good or bad for development Moved in 2019 to the University of South Wales onto a Lecturer appointment
Dr Attilio Zilli		Was a Postgraduate (PhD) Student within the EU ITN FINON Phase-sensitive four-wave mixing heterodyne interferometry for fundamental studies of metallic nanoparticles Received his PhD in 2018, then Research Associate on a EPSRC funded project Optical nanosizer: Wide-field extinction micro-spectroscopy for nanoparticle analysis moved to a researcher position at the Politechnico di Milano, Italy in 2019
Dr Sergey Lobanov		Was a Research Associate on EPSRC funded Project Resonant-state expansion for photonic and electromagnetic modelling, design and optimisation moved 2018 to a position at the School of Medicine, Cardiff, University
Dr Naya Giannakopoulou		Was a Postgraduate (PhD) Student within the EU ITN FINON Four-wave-mixing heterdyne interferometry of nanoparticle endocytic routes in cells Received her PhD in 2019, moved to London to work in the private sector
Dr Craig McPhee		Was Postgraduate (PhD) Student Shedding new light on cell membranes with coherent multiphoton nanoscopy received his PhD in 2018, moved into the private sector
Dr Arnica Karuna		Was a Postgraduate (PhD) Student Coherent Antistokes Raman Scattering microscopy for label-free imaging: From technology development to cell biology applications Received the PhD in 2016, moved to the KU Leuven as a postdoctoral researcher.
Dr Kez Cleal		Was a Postgraduate (PhD) Student  Unravelling metallic nanoparticle endocytosis and endosomal escape using four-wave mixing microscopy Received his PhD in 2015
Dr Ali Naeem		Was a Postgraduate (PhD) Student Optical and Scanning probe imaging and manipulation of single colloidal quantum dots: Correlation between fluorescence and local environment Received his PhD in 2015 and moved to work as patent attorney
Dr George Zorinyants		Was a Research Associate in the School of Biosciences Shedding new light on cells with coherent multiphoton nanoscopy Moved 2017 to a post as government data analyst
Dr Richard Lewis		Temporary Lecturer in the School of Biosciences 2015-2016 teaching on the MSc Biophotonics
MPhys Tariq Salahuddin		Postgraduate (MPhil) Student Carrier dynamics in QD optical amplifiers & saturable absorbers
Dr Claudia DiNapoli		Was a postgraduate (PhD) student on a Presidents Scholarship on the prject Label-free multiphoton microscopy of intracellular lipids using CARS received her PhD in 2014, moved to Italy in the private sector
Dr Joanna Zajac		Was a postgraduate (PhD) Student on the EPSRC funded project Spin currents and superfluidity of microcavity polaritons received her PhD in 2012, moved to the School of Engineering & Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh
Dr Richard Perrins		Was a research Associate on DTI funded project Nanotether Biochemistry
Dr Elisabetta Canetta		Was a lecturer in the School of Biosciences teaching on the MSc Biophotonics Moved 2014 to St Mary’s University College, Twickenham
Dr Bei Li		Was a Research Associate on BBSRC funded Project Differential CARS for Commercial Multiphoton Microscopes in the Life Science moved 2012 to Brunel University, to the project working in the “3D-VIVANT” EU project
MPhil Richard Everson		Was a Postgraduate Student together with the Nanophysics Group Scanning probe microscopy & spectroscopy Received his Mphil in 2012 and moved into a career as Science teacher
MPhil Nicolo Accanto		Was a Postgraduate Erasmus Trainee Dephasing in CdSe colloidal quantum dots 10/2011 Started a PhD at ICFO  Barcelona
Dr Julie Lutti		Was a Research Associate on EPSRC funded Platform Grant Moved 2011 to Florida, USA
Dr Valentina Cesari		Was a Research Associate on EPSRC funded Project InP/AIGainP Quantum dot lasers for 650-780nm emission Received her PhD in 2010
BSc Michael Garhard		Was a Postgraduate (MSc Biophotonics) Student CARS on DNA Received his MSc in 2010
Dr Jacek Kasprzak		Was a Marie Curie Fellow on the project Coherent ultrafast spectroscopy of single excitonic states Moved 02/2010 to France, Grenoble, Institut Neel
Dr Amal Kasry		Was a Research Associate on DTI funded project Nanotether Biochemistry Moved 2009 to the Egypt IBM Nanotechnology research Center (EGNC)
Dr Israel Rocha-Mendoza		Was working on Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman multiplex microscopy for non-invasive imaging of living cells Moved to Mexico 2009, to the Departamento de Óptica, CICESE
Dr Laura Chantada		Was working as Research Associate on the BBSRC funded project Design a novel photonic biosensor based on whispering-gallery modes of directric microspheres for high-throughput immunoassays Moved 01/04/08 to the Soft Condensed Matter Physics Group at the University Friburg, Switzerland
Dr Ye Sun		Was working as Research Associate on the MRC funded project High sensitivity biophotonic detection method for in-vitro and in-vivo applications Moved 01/02/2008 to the Inorganic Group at the University of Aarhus, Denmark
Dr Brian Patton		Was working as Research Associate on the EPSRC funded project Coherent optical manipulation and spectroscopy of single quantum dots for quantum computing Moved 05/01/07 to the University of Oxford, Department of Materials, working in the Quantum Information Processing Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration (QIPIRC)