Institute of PhotonicsOur staff

Institute of Photonics staff

Director
Professor Jennifer Hastie

Deputy Director
Dr Nicolas Laurand

Director of Research
Professor Martin Dawson

Professors
Professor Alan Kemp
Professor Keith Mathieson 
Professor Michael Strain

Technology Exploitation Director (Professor of Practice)
Professor Christopher Leburn

Reader
Dr Antonio Hurtado

Senior Lecturer
Dr Johannes Herrnsdorf
Dr Sujan Rajbhandari

Chancellor's Fellow
Dr Javier Porte Parera

Cleanroom Research Technologist
Dr Benoit Guilhabert

Research Fellows
Dr Niall McAlinden
Dr Jonathan McKendry
Dr Paulo Hisao Moriya

Researchers
Dr Zubair Ahmed
Dr Pedro Alves
Steven Anderson
Sean Bommer
Alex Blanchard
Emma Butt
Dr Yunzhou Cheng
Dr Giovanni Donati
Dr Charlotte Eling

Dr Dimitars Jevtics
Dr Graeme Johnstone
Martin Lee
Dr Eleni Margariti
Dr Joshua Robertson
Dr Jack Smith
Zhongyi Xia
Dr Enyuan Xie

KE Fellow
Dr Susan Spesyvtseva

Cleanroom Technician
Ronnie Roger

Mechanical Technician
Lewis Hannah

Operations Co-ordinator
Lorraine Annand

Administrative Assistant
Sharon Kelly

Institute of Photonics students

PhD students
James Abbot
Adnan
Steven Anderson
Dylan Black
Alexander Blanchard
Sean Bommer
Elise Burns
Emma Butt
Ross Cassells
Bethan Charlton
Steve Cohen
Lewis Coyne
Tom Dickinson
Dillon Downie
Kieran Ferguson
Anjana Ganesh
Alister Gorrie
Johnathan Gray
Ryan Greer
Charli Hamilton
Jordan Hill
Charlotte Hodges
Ann-Kathrin Holzmann
Craig Hunter
Marius Jankauskas
Pierre Julien
Aisha Kanwal
Martin Lee
Daniel Maclure
Emma McCormick
Isaac Noman
Dafydd Owen-Newns
Svetoslav Stoyanov
Miles Toon
Vanesa Vladimirova
Zhongyi Xia
Hichem Zimi

EngD students
Natalie Bruce
Brendan Hall
Eilidh Johnston
Olivia McGleish


 

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