New Group Members

Two new members have joined the Optical Tweezers Group at the start of the 2014-15 academic year.  Nick Tidy has joined us as a PhD student.  Nick studied Physics at Birmingham University and graduated in 2014.  He will be working with our collaborators at JAIST on optical trapping of polymer vesicles.  Stefan Siwiak-Jaszek is a fourth year undergraduate at UCL studying Natural Sciences.  Stefan spent the third year of his degree studying at the National University of Singapore, and has retured to UCL for his final year where he will be using optical tweezers to study stochastic thermodynamic processes for his MSci project.

Xiang Han joins the Optical Tweezers Group

Xiang Han has joined the UCL Optical Tweezers Group as a visiting student.   Xiang is a PhD student in the College of Optoelectronic Science & Engineering at the National Defense University, Changsha, Hunan, China.  His visit is funded by an award from the China Scholarship Council.  Xiang will be working with us until 2016 on a number of optical binding experiments.

New Group Members

This year we welcome two final year undergraduate students into the Optical Tweezers Group for their MSci projects.  Chris Richards will be working on light scattering calculations relevant to our optical trapping and optical binding experiments.  Zhi Wong will be investigating the optical and light scattering properties of metallic nanoparticles in his project on Plasmonics.

New Group Members

Chris Fury has joined the UCL Optical Tweezers Group from April 2012 to study for a PhD.  Chris gained a degree in Physics from Exeter University, followed by an MSc in Fusion Energy from York University, which included a research project at the Central Laser Facility at the Rutherford Appleton Lab.

Chris joins the group to work at the National Physical Laboratory on the NPL/UCL optical and acoustic microbubble trapping project.

New Group Members

Kelly Thorneycroft has joined the UCL Optical Tweezers Group for her MSci project.  Kelly is a fourth year undergraduate studying Natural Sciences and will be working on optical trapping and binding experiments and biophysical applications.

New Group Members

Muhammad Abdul Khudus has joined the group for his MSc project.  Muhammad gained his first degree from Imperial College and will be working on a project on nano-optics.

New group members

Agata Pawlikowska is joining the group for a PhD.  Agata studied at Wroclaw University of Technology and at Imperial College where she worked on holographic optical traping and gained an MSc in Optics and Photonics.  She is working for a PhD on the UCL/NPL optical and acoustical microbubble trapping project.  

Also, Radhika Patel is returning to the group.  Radhika worked in our lab over the summer as a Nuffield Foundation Bursary Student, and will be spending the rest of the year with us working on her MSci project.