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
- Journal of Physical Chemistry A front cover
- Recipient
- 12/2025
- Royal Society University Research Fellowship Renewal
- Recipient
- 10/2024
- Impact DOCS Awards Best Documentary Short
- Recipient
- 2023
- New York SCIENCE & NATURE Film Festival Best Science Film
- Recipient
- 2022
- Spotlight Documentary Film Awards Best Documentary Short
- Recipient
- 2022
- Royal Society Open Science front cover
- Recipient
- 5/8/2020
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Publications
- Investigation of the robustness of Rayleigh optical activity for the assignment of absolute configurations of chiral molecules
- Puente Andrew R, McArthur Duncan, Alexakis Emmanouil I, MacKenzie Lewis E, Cameron Robert P, Barron Laurence D, Polavarapu Prasad L
- Journal of Physical Chemistry A Vol 130, pp. 2238-2251 (2026)
- https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpca.5c08390
- Observation of Rayleigh optical activity for chiral molecules : a new chiroptical tool
- McArthur Duncan, Alexakis Emmanouil I, Puente Andrew R, McGonigle Rebecca, Love Andrew J, Polavarapu Prasad L, Barron Laurence D, MacKenzie Lewis E, Arnold Aidan S, Cameron Robert P
- Journal of Physical Chemistry A Vol 129, pp. 11884-11887 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpca.5c05516
- Investigation of the robustness of Rayleigh optical activity for the assignment of absolute configurations of chiral molecules
- Puente Andrew, McArthur Duncan, Alexakis Emmanouil, MacKenzie Lewis, Cameron Robert P, Barron Laurence, Polavarapu Prasad
- (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv-2025-r972r
- Chiral supramolecular assembly to enhance the magneto-optical rotation of organic materials
- Delage-Laurin Leo, Reger David, Suleymanov Abdusalom A, Nelson Zachary, Minion Louis, Kooi Steven E, Brandt Jochen R, Siligardi Giuliano, Cameron Robert P, Wade Jessica, Swager Timothy M, Fuchter Matthew J
- Nature Communications Vol 16 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-64663-w
- Observation of Rayleigh optical activity for chiral molecules : a new chiroptical tool
- McArthur Duncan, Alexakis Emmanouil I, Puente Andrew R, McGonigle Rebecca, Love Andrew J, Polavarapu Prasad, Barron Laurence D, MacKenzie Lewis E, Arnold Aidan S, Cameron Robert P
- (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2508.02696
- Robust chiral optical force via electric dipole interactions, inspired by a sea creature
- Cameron Robert P, McArthur Duncan, Yao Alison M, Vogeley Nick, Wang Daqing
- (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2412.13206
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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 collaborators and I are currently developing the theory of novel chiral light-matter interactions and working with experimentalists to see them used as the basis of powerful new methods for the preparation, analysis and exploitation of chiral samples.
Professional Activities
- CHIRALFORCE symposium
- Speaker
- 18/5/2026
- SYLC Symposium Light and Chirality: From Fundamentals to Applications
- Participant
- 4/3/2026
- Seminar at King's College London
- Speaker
- 25/2/2026
- External PhD viva examiner at Imperial College for Dr Joshua D T Vogwell
- Examiner
- 10/12/2025
- CD 2025: 20th International Conference on Chiroptical Spectroscopy
- Participant
- 25/8/2025
- 1st Year Postgraduate Conference
- Participant
- 21/8/2025
Projects
- QEPNT A UK Hub for Quantum Enabled Position, Navigation and Timing - Full Stage
- Hastie, Jennifer (Principal Investigator) Arnold, Aidan (Co-investigator) Cameron, Robert (Co-investigator) Griffin, Paul (Co-investigator) Ingleby, Stuart (Co-investigator) McGilligan, James Patrick (Co-investigator) Riis, Erling (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 30-Jan-2029
- 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
- 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
- EPSRC Vacation Internship
- Cameron, Robert (Principal Investigator) Alexakis, Emmanouil (Research Co-investigator)
- 24-Jan-2019 - 30-Jan-2019