Dr Robert Cameron
Lecturer
Physics
Personal statement
Personal statement
I am a Royal Society University Research Fellow and Lecturer at the University of Strathclyde.
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Prize And Awards
- Royal Society University Research Fellowship Renewal
- Recipient
- 10/2024
- Impact DOCS Awards Best Documentary Short
- Recipient
- 2023
- Spotlight Documentary Film Awards Best Documentary Short
- Recipient
- 2022
- New York SCIENCE & NATURE Film Festival Best Science Film
- Recipient
- 2022
- Royal Society Open Science front cover
- Recipient
- 5/8/2020
- Shortlisted in Strathclyde Teaching Excellence Awards
- Recipient
- 2020
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Publications
- Unlocking the hidden dimension : power of chirality in scientific exploration
- Kartouzian Aras, Cameron Robert P
- Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences Vol 382 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2023.0321
- Theory of Rayleigh–Brillouin optical activity light scattering applicable to chiral liquids
- Cameron Robert P, Alexakis Emmanouil I, Arnold Aidan S, McArthur Duncan
- Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics Vol 26, pp. 11641-11648 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1039/D3CP05109A
- Strong chiral optical force for small chiral molecules based on electric-dipole interactions, inspired by the asymmetrical hydrozoan Velella velella
- Cameron Robert P, McArthur Duncan, Yao Alison M
- New Journal of Physics Vol 25 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/ace7ee
- Constraints for electric charge from Maxwell's equations and boundary conditions
- Cameron Robert P
- Physica Scripta Vol 97 (2022)
- https://doi.org/10.1088/1402-4896/ac50c7
- Theoretical proposal for the experimental realisation of a monochromatic electromagnetic knot
- Cameron R P, Löeffler W, Stephan K D
- Journal of Optics (United Kingdom) Vol 23 (2021)
- https://doi.org/10.1088/2040-8986/abfc33
- Interference-contrast optical activity: a new technique for probing the chirality of anisotropic samples and more
- Cameron R P, Vogl U, Trautmann N
- Royal Society Open Science Vol 7 (2020)
- https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.192201
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Teaching
I teach the third-year electromagnetism module and enjoy making short scientific documentaries aimed at a general audience (www.YouTube.com/@TheInvertedStegosaurus).
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Research Interests
I have enjoyed pursuing a wide range of scientific interests in my career, from the fundamentals of electromagnetism to the morphology of the dinosaur Stegosaurus.
My team and I are currently developing the theory of novel chiral light-matter interactions and working with experimental collaborators to see them used as the basis of powerful new methods for the preparation, analysis and exploitation of chiral samples.
Professional Activities
- DPG Spring Meeting of the Atomic, Molecular, Quantum Optics and Photonics Section (SAMOP) 2025
- Speaker
- 9/3/2025
- Royal Society Meeting of Minds 2025
- Speaker
- 6/2/2025
- Royal Society Presentation Skills Training
- Participant
- 22/1/2025
- PQE 2025: 55th Winter Colloquium on the Physics of Quantum Electronics
- Speaker
- 6/1/2025
- Interviewed by Beatrix Kouba for “The Ball Lightning Detectives” article in Science Notes
- Recipient
- 2025
- Snapshot talk at University of Strathclyde
- Speaker
- 19/9/2024
Projects
- Royal Society Presentation Skills Training
- Cameron, Robert (Principal Investigator)
- I attended an online course on presentation skills provided by the Royal Society.
- 22-Jan-2025 - 22-Jan-2025
- Chiral Molecules and their Interaction with Light | Witkowski, Wiktor
- Cameron, Robert (Principal Investigator) McArthur, Duncan (Co-investigator) Witkowski, Wiktor (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 01-Jan-2027
- Royal Society Leadership Effectiveness Training
- Cameron, Robert (Principal Investigator)
- I attended a three day course titled Leadership Effectiveness Training at the Royal Society in London, England.
- 05-Jan-2024 - 07-Jan-2024
- Carnegie Vacation Scholarship
- Cameron, Robert (Principal Investigator)
- Carnegie Vacation Scholarship supervision of Wiktor Witkowski.
- 27-Jan-2024 - 02-Jan-2024
- Doctoral Training Partnership 2018-19 University of Strathclyde | Alexakis, Emmanouil
- Cameron, Robert (Principal Investigator) Arnold, Aidan (Co-investigator) Alexakis, Emmanouil (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2020 - 01-Jan-2024
- Chiral Molecules and their Interaction with Light
- Cameron, Robert (Fellow)
- 01-Jan-2019 - 30-Jan-2027