Group Members

Prof Wolfgang Langbein		Professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy
Prof Paola Borri		Professor in the School of Biosciences
Dr Peter Watson		Reader in the School of Biosciences
Dr Francesco Masia		Ser Cymru Fellow on Project Integrated compound semiconductor lab-on-chip optical biosensor enabling infectious disease diagnostics at the point-of-care
Dr Iestyn Pope		Research Associate & MUSIQ Project Manager
Dr Lukas Payne		Research Associate on EPSRC funded Project 4PI Two-photon Lithography for Isotropic 3D Nanostructure Fabrication
Dr Yisu Wang		was Postgraduate (PhD) Student Novel plasmonic nanoparticles for applications in quantitative biosensing and bioimaging now Research Associate on BBSRC funded project Lipid droplets in oocytes: shedding new light on why fats are good or bad for development
MPhys Dale Boorman		was Postgraduate (PhD) Student Exploring CARS Microscopy as a Tool for Drug Discovery now Research Associate on 3DBioNet project Incorporating deuterium into 3D organoids to identify cell types and track cellular metabolic rates using CARS microscopy
Dr David Regan		was Postgraduate (PhD) Student Quantitative spatio-temporal study of single membrane proteins and lipid domains with label-free super-resolution optical microscopy now Research Associate on EPSRC Imapc acceleration project Optical Nanosizer: Wide-field extinction micro-spectroscopy for accurate analysis of individual nanoparticle sizes and shapes
MPhys Dafydd Sian Harlow		Postgraduate (PhD) Student Sensing local biomolecular environments with coherent optical nanoscopy
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
Vikramdeep Singh		Research associate and PhD student on EU-ITN MUSIQ funded project  2D FWM cryo-microspectroscopy of individual colloidal quantum dots, fluorophores, and biomolecules
Nicole Slesiona		Research associate and PhD student on EU-ITN MUSIQ funded project Development of FWM imaging for biotherapeutic detection and tracking in live cells
Nadhia Monim		Postgraduate (PhD) Student Integrated compound semiconductor lab-on-chip optical biosensor
Rhodri Thomas		Postgraduate (PhD) Student   A novel approach to Biopharm cell line selection using advanced molecular microscopy and chemical profiling
Samuel Hamilton		Postgraduate (PhD) Student Measuring the sp3/sp2 carbon content ratio in a single nanodiamond using quantitative optical microscopy
Dominykas Gudavici		Postgraduate (PhD) Student (external with Light conversion) Development of femtosecond laser source for coherent nonlinear microscopy
Martina Recchia		Research associate and PhD student on EU-ITN MUSIQ funded project Understanding and controlling lipid membranes at the nanoscale through label-free coherent nonlinear optics at membrane-nanoparticle interfaces
Samuel Gavin-Pitt		Postgraduate (PhD) Student Quantum Optics of Giant Rydberg Excitons in Cuprous Oxide
Freya Turley		Postgraduate (PhD) Student in the EPSRC Physics of Life iDTH Unravelling the dynamics of lipid bilayers and membrane proteins and their reaction to toxins and viral infection on the single molecule level using label-free microscopy
Ozan Aksakal		Postgraduate (PhD) Student in the EPSRC Physics of Life iDTH (Lead supervisor Prof Dafydd Jones) Developing and applying genetically encoded proteins as pre-resonant coherent Raman scattering tags for next-generation live-cell imaging
Furqan Kamil		Postgraduate (PhD) Student Laser micro-spectroscopy characterisation of individual colloidal nanoparticles for biomedical applications
Mansur Can		Postgraduate (PhD) Student Nanoparticle characterization combining optical microscopy, image analysis, and simulation
Emily Lewis		Postgraduate (PhD) Student Nanoparticle characterization combining optical microscopy, image analysis, and simulation
Athena Zitti		Postgraduate (PhD) Student Designing super-scattering Raman-active genetically encoded protein probes