Dr Nicolas Laurand
Principal Research Fellow
Institute of Photonics
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Prize And Awards
- Leverhulme Trust Research Leadership Award
- Recipient
- 2020
- Scottish Universities Physics Alliance (SUPA), Physics and Life Sciences fellowship
- Recipient
- 2010
- Best Young Researcher
- Recipient
- 2006
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Publications
- Camera‑based detection of sub‑threshold WGM signatures in supraparticle microlasers
- Alves Pedro Urbano, Laurand Nicolas
- 2026 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC) 2026 IEEE Photonics Conference IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC) (2026)
- Correlating synthesis conditions with structural evolution and near-infrared emission in glutathione-capped gold nanoclusters
- Wang Bowen, Laurand Nicolas, Jachimska Barbara, Sandhu Sanjay, Doveiko Daniel, Sankar Amrutha, Kelly Christopher, Ivaturi Aruna, Chen Yu
- ACS Omega (2026)
- https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.6c03255
- Quantum dot supraparticle photocatalysts for photodegradation of rhodamine B
- Eling Charlotte J, Laurand Nicolas
- ACS Omega Vol 11, pp. 23125-23137 (2026)
- https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.5c13184
- Multiexcitonic lasing in thin-shell colloidal quantum dot supraparticles
- Alves Pedro Urbano, Laurand Nicolas
- ACS Photonics Vol 13, pp. 739-744 (2026)
- https://doi.org/10.1021/acsphotonics.5c02304
- Hybrid upconversion-nanocrystal/quantum-dot supraparticles for Stokes and anti-Stokes Emission
- McCormick Emma, Laurand Nicolas, Eling Charlotte
- 2024 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC) IEEE Photonics Conference 2025 2025 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC) (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1109/IPC65510.2025.11282207
- Reduced laser thresholds in colloidal quantum dot supraparticles via ligand engineering
- Eling C J, Laurand N
- 2025 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC) IEEE Photonics Conference 2025 2025 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC), pp. 1-2 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1109/ipc65510.2025.11282264
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Professional Activities
- Colloidal Quantum Dots, Supraparticles and Microlasers
- Presenter
- 1/2026
- Lightstalk - Microscopic ‘Lasers in a Jar’
- Speaker
- 12/2024
- Strategic Themes - IEEE Distinguished Lecture Series – GE Gas Measurement Sensor Technologies
- Participant
- 26/11/2024
- High yield and accuracy transfer printing of micron-scale optoelectronic devices for volume manufacturing
- Examiner
- 21/8/2024
- Miniaturised components for next generation cold-atom quantum sensors
- Examiner
- 2024
- IEEE Photonics Society (External organisation)
- Advisor
- 2024
Projects
- UDLA 2527 University of Strathclyde | Kaur, Tanshpreet
- Laurand, Nicolas (Principal Investigator) Strain, Michael (Co-investigator) Kaur, Tanshpreet (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2026 - 01-Jan-2030
- Wound Management and Microbiota Control using Light: Harnessing Advanced Research in Quantum Dot Materials for Health Tech (HARQDOT
- Laurand, Nicolas (Principal Investigator) Eling, Charlotte (Research Co-investigator) dos Santos Alves, Pedro (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2025 - 30-Jan-2027
- Two-factor authentication” sensor for Pathogen Monitoring
- dos Santos Alves, Pedro (Principal Investigator) Lasserre, Perrine (CoPI) Corrigan, Damion (Administrator) Laurand, Nicolas (Administrator)
- StrathWide 2024 funding award (£5000.00).
- 01-Jan-2024 - 30-Jan-2025
- CHEETOS - on-CHip chEmical sEnsors for TOxic gaSes detection
- Laurand, Nicolas (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2025
- Lasers and photonics of the future: self-assembled optically active resonators (Research Leadership) | McCormick, Emma
- Laurand, Nicolas (Principal Investigator) Mathieson, Keith (Co-investigator) McCormick, Emma (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 01-Jan-2026
- Lasers and photonics of the future: self-assembled optically active resonators (Research Leadership)
- Laurand, Nicolas (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2020 - 30-Jan-2025
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Contact
Dr
Nicolas
Laurand
Principal Research Fellow
Institute of Photonics
Email: nicolas.laurand@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 4109