At this year’s STEM for Britain competition in the UK Houses of Parliament, our Senior Research Laboratory Manager, Dr Graham Bruce, won the Silver award for the excellence of his physics research. Graham presented his…
A team from the Optical Manipulation Group, with colleagues from the Gather Lab and the Brown Group, travelled to Glasgow Science Centre for their Curiosity Live! event on 7th November. The event was attended by over…
A new review article written in collaboration with our colleagues in Chiba University, Japan, has been used as the inside cover image in Advanced Optical Materials issue dated 18th July 2019. The article discusses…
Over 400 visitors to Explorathon 18 at Dundee Science Centre investigated how light is changing the way we look at biology and medicine. The Seeing Life through a New Light activities were delivered by group…
Congratulations go out to all our new graduates, especially to Laura O’Donnell BSc who was awarded the prize for the best BSc physics final year project. Laura’s project in the Optical Manipulation Group was supervised…
Visitors to Science Adventure at Cowdenbeath Leisure Centre on Saturday 2nd June enjoyed activities demonstrating light, microscopes, and optical trapping at our Seeing Life through a New Light event, as part of Fife…
Our recent publication “Light-sheet microscopy with attenuation-compensated propagation-invariant beams” has been highlighted in The Conversation. Dr Jonathan Nylk, the lead author of the study, was invited to write…
Congratulations to group member Adrià Escobet-Montalbán, whose TRAFIX project on imaging deeper within turbid media has been shortlisted for Scotland’s largest entrepeneurship award, the Converge Challenge. Adrià’s…
Our recent publication, “Towards automated cancer screening: Label-free classification of fixed cell samples using wavelength modulated Raman spectroscopy” from Journal of Biophotonics, has been featured in Advanced…
Kishan Dholakia, University of St Andrews, School of Physics & Astronomy, North Haugh, St. Andrews, Fife, is the 2018 winner of the Dennis Gabor Award in recognition of his work in optical beam shaping using dynamic…