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Institute of Photonics Our staff

Institute of Photonics staff

Director
Dr Jennifer Hastie

Deputy Director
Dr Nicolas Laurand

Director of Research
Professor Martin Dawson

Professors
Professor Alan Kemp
Professor Keith Mathieson 
Professor Michael Strain

Reader
Dr Antonio Hurtado

Senior Lecturer
Dr Lucia Caspani

Chancellor's Fellow
Dr Johannes Herrnsdorf
Dr Javier Porte Parera

Research Team Leader
Dr Ian Watson

Research Fellows
Dr Benoit Guilhabert
Dr Niall McAlinden
Dr Jonathan McKendry

Researchers
Dr Zubair Ahmed
Dr Pedro Alves
Sean Bommer
Alex Blanchard
Emma Butt
Dr Yunzhou Cheng
Dr Charlotte Eling
Dr Dimitars Jevtics
Dr Graeme Johnstone
Martin Lee
Dr Paulo Hisao Moriya
Dr Joshua Robertson
Dr Niall Simpson
Dr Jack Smith
Dr Enyuan Xie
Dr Weikang Zhang

KE Fellow
Dr Susan Spesyvtseva

Cleanroom Technician
Ronnie Roger

Mechanical Technician

Lewis Hannah

Administrator
Lorraine Annand

Administrative Assistant
Sharon Kelly

 

Institute of Photonics students

PhD students
James Abbot
Adnan
Steven Anderson
Georgios Arvanitakis
Alexander Blanchard
Sean Bommer
Elise Burns
Emma Butt
Ross Cassells
George Chappell
Bethan Charlton
Steve Cohen
Tom Dickinson
Dillon Downie
Alister Gorrie
Johnathan Gray
Ryan Greer
Charli Hamilton
Matej Hejda
Jordan Hill
Charlotte Hodges
Craig Hunter
Marius Jankauskas
Pierre Julien
Martin Lee
Miguel Leitao
Daniel Maclure
Eleni Margariti
Emma McCormick
Isaac Noman
Dafydd Owen-Newns
Gemma Quinn
Svetoslav Stoyanov
Miles Toon
Nils Wessling
Zhongyi Xia
Hichem Zimi

EngD students
Natalie Bruce
Brendan Hall
Eilidh Johnston
Olivia McGleish
Paul White

 

Visiting Professors

  • Daniel Palanker, Hansen Experimental Physics Lab, Stanford University, USA
  • Thomas Baer, Stanford Photonics Research Centre, Stanford University, USA
  • Erwin Bente, Dept of Electrical Engineering, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
  • Dave Clark, CENSIS
  • Chris Dorman, Coherent Scotland Limited
  • Graeme Malcolm, M Squared Lasers Limited