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The Optical Manipulation Group specialises in optical physics, particularly:
- Raman and other applied spectroscopy
- speckle metrology
- exotic and structured light fields
- novel bioimaging methods
- optical tweezers and levitated optomechanics
The group is headed by Kishan Dholakia and Graham Bruce, and consists of an international mixture of multi-disciplinary research staff and PhD students.
We are based in the School of Physics & Astronomy, University of St Andrews, and part of the Centre of Biophotonics. Our work has generated several commercial projects, such as the Elliot Scientific Optical Tweezer range and the M-Squared Aurora microscope. We also enjoy a strong partnership with the Centre of Light for Life, University of Adelaide.
We are always delighted to hear from potential new postdoctoral staff, postgraduate students and summer interns – please contact Dr Graham Bruce with informal enquiries. Open PhD projects can be found here.
Latest News
- Raman demonstrations at the 2nd St Andrews Biophotonics Summer School
- ‘Whisky Wizard’ Graham in the Observer
- New tool to identify ‘toxic’ green books
- Morgan takes Bronze at STEM for Britain
- Kishan elected as SPIE Director
- Photonics outreach activities seen by over 1200 attendees in Ghana
Funding
We gratefully acknowledge research funding from:
