Keywords
Ultrafast Lasers, Nonlinear Optics, Coherent Spectroscopy,
Semiconductor Nanostructures, Biophotonics
Funded Research Projects
Current
- 2018 EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account "Optical Nanosizer:
Wide-field extinction micro-spectroscopy for nanoparticle
analysis"
- 2017 - 2020 EPSRC Research Grant "4PI Two-photon
Lithography for Isotropic 3D Nanostructure Fabrication"
- 2017 - 2018 WAG "Optical nanosizer: Wide-field extinction
micro-spectroscopy for nanoparticle analysis"
- 2017 - 2021 EPSRC "Solid State Superatoms"
- 2017 - 2020 BBSRC "Lipid droplets in oocytes: shedding new
light on why fats are good or bad for development"
- 2016 - 2019 CRUK "Using CARS microscopy to realise the
potential of 3D culture for personalised medicine and drug
discovery"
- 2015 - 2019 EPSRC "Controlled long-range coherent coupling of
solid-state qubits"
- 2015 - 2018 ETN PHONSI "Nanophotonics by Nanocrystals, from
integration to single photon operation" Partner
Previous
- 2017 CU DII "Unsupervised data compression and interpretation
of fluorescence lifetime imaging"
- 2015 EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account "Optical extinction
microscopy for nanoparticle analysis"
- 2015 - 2017 Ser Cymru NRN "Efficient modelling and
optimisation of optical sensors and fibres based on the
resonant-state expansion"
- 2015 - 2017 EPSRC Experimental Equipment Call "‘Third
generation’ multiphoton microscope"
- 2014 - 2015 EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account "Resonant-state
expansion for photonic and electromagnetic modelling, design and
optimisation"
- 2014 - 2017 Ser Cymru NRN "Efficient modelling and
optimisation of advanced nano-plasmonic optical biosensors and
markers (EM PI)"
- 2010 - 2015 EPSRC Leadership Fellowship Grant “Shedding new
light on cells with coherent multiphoton nanscopy"
- 2014 - 2015 Leverhulme / Royal Society Fellowship "Coherent
non-linear micro-spectroscopy of quantum systems and living
matter"
- 2013 - 2015 EPSRC Research Grant "Nonlinear plasmonic
biosensing and functional imaging"
- 2010 - 2013 EPSRC Research Grant “Probing the mechanical
control of stem cell fate through the development of novel,
non-invasive imaging technologies”
- 2010 - 2011 BBSRC Follow-on Fund Grant “Differential CARS for
Commercial Multiphoton Microscopes in the Life Science”
- 2010 - 2013 BBSRC Research Grant “Multiphoton microscopy of
lipid-protein dynamics in living cells using correlative
Coherent Antistokes Raman Scattering and Two-Photon
Fluorescence”
- 2008 - 2012 EPSRC Research Grant “Spin currents and
superfluidity of microcavity polaritons”
- 2007 - 2010 EPSRC Research Grant “InP/AIGainP Quantum dot
lasers for 650-780nm emission”
- DTI Technology Programme Grant (with GE Healthcare
Cardiff) “Nanotether Biochemistry”
- 2008 - 2010 Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow Francesco Masia
“Study of coherent non-linear optical response of nanoparticles
and application to multiphoton imaging in cell biology”
- 2008 - 2010 Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow Jacek Kasprzak
“Coherent Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Manipulation of Excitonic
Q-bits”
- 2007-2009 BBSRC Research Grant “Design of a novel photonic
biosensor based on whispering-gallery modes of dielectric
microspheres for high-throughput immunoassays”
- 2006-2009 BBSRC Research Grant ”Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman
multiplex microscopy for non-invasive imaging of living cells”
- 2006-2008 Dstl-Ministry of Defence Contract “Development of
prototype biosensor based on whispering-gallery technology”
- MRC Discipline Hopping “High sensitivity biophotonic
detection method for in-vitro and in-vivo applications”
- 2006 - 2008 EPSRC Research Grant “Novel Multi-photon
Microscopy for Imaging in Cell Biology based on Resonant
Nonlinear Optics of Quantum Dots“
- 2005 - 2007 EPSRC Research Grant “Coherent optical
manipulation and spectroscopy of single quantum dots for quantum
computing"
Other Research Interests
Ultrafast Dynamics in Quantum Dot Amplifiers, Dephasing Processes in
Quantum Dots, Polariton Dynamics in Microcavities
