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Associate Professor in the Department of PhysicsPh231+44 (0) 191 33 43733
Member of the Centre for Materials Physics231+44 (0) 191 33 43733
Dr in the Centre for Molecular and Nanoscale Electronics  

Biography

Departmental Responsabilities

Teaching

Fourth year undergraduate course in Optical Devices; Postgraduate course in Optical Spectroscopy; Level 1 Discovery Labs; Level 1 tutorials;Team Project; Level 4 project supervision.

PhD supervision: Rongjuan Huang and Piotr Pander.

Administration

Chair of the Health & Safety Committee; International Coordinator (Physics); Exchange Coordinator (Physics).

Research Interests

My research is broadly focused on the area of spectroscopy and photophysics of organic molecules for optoelectronic and photonic applications, focusing in particular on NIR emitters; room-temperature phosphorescence, termally activated delayed fluorescence, and energy transfer.

Research groups

Awarded Grants

  • 2018: OCTA: Organic Charge Transfer Applications(£187500.00 from Interreg (ERDF) Europe)
  • 2018: RF040570: Hyper Luminescence OLEDS using Solution Processed TADF Polymers as Energy Funelling Pathways,The Royal Society, £12000, 2018-03-31 - 2020-03-30
  • 2017: Overcoming the Energy Gap Law to Develop Efficient NIR OLED Emitters(£44451.11 from Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology)
  • 2017: Tailoring of Triplet Excited States for the Development of Organic Sensor Materials(£75522.89 from Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd)
  • 2015: EXCILIGHT: Donor-Acceptor light emitting exciplexes as OLED lighting(£369841.88 from European Commission)
  • 2015: Tailoring of triplet excited states for the development of organic sensor materials(£69606.28 from Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd)
  • 2011: Charge Transfer States in D-A Excitonic Solar Cells: Photophysical Characterization and Loss Mechanisms for Charge Generation(£101401.31 from Epsrc)

Publications

Chapter in book

Journal Article

Supervision students