Team

Jenny Clark

Team Leader. I moved to the University of Sheffield in early 2015 from Cambridge to start an Advanced Vice-Chancellor's Fellowship. You can find me in office D16 (Hicks Building).

James Pidgeon

PDRA (2023–), and previously a PhD (2018–2023). Currently focusing on microscopy setups for energy transfer studies. My earlier work concerned spectroscopy of photosynthetic pigment-protein complexes. Google Scholar | ORCiD

Robert Gordon

PhD student starting in 2021. My work focuses on electronic strong coupling, where I'm exploring its impact on photophysical processes such as singlet fission and triplet fusion. I'm applying this knowledge to fabricate novel up-conversion devices.

Michael 'Mitch' Horbury

PDRA. I joined the team in October 2023, and my project focuses on probing the effects that vibrational strong coupling has on the photorelaxation mechanisms of platinum based donor-acceptor metal complexes

Tom Bradbury

PhD starting in 2023. My research focuses on the excited state dynamics of fluorescent proteins. Within this I am investigating the role of reverse intersystem crossing and testing novel AI designed proteins for lasing and polaritonic applications. Google scholar

Andrea 'Andi' Szloboda

I began my doctoral research in 2024 as part of the LUMOS group. This interdisciplinary project includes exploring photophysical mechanisms of novel near-infrared thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) materials and their integration into organic LEDs (OLEDs). Additionally, the project entails the optimisation of near infrared OLEDs with biomedical applications in mind.

Andrada Cocea

PhD Student starting in 2024. My research focuses on developing energy efficient and long-lasting OLEDs for various applications, ranging from displays (RGB) to biomedical devices (NIR). In particular, my work involves OLED fabrication and testing using novel materials such as TADF materials and radical emitters. Part of the LUMOS group.

Mateja Smitran

PhD Student starting in 2024. My research focuses on understanding and developing a model system using well-studied molecules like Rubrene. Additionally, I am involved in a separate project aimed at characterising and demonstrating operational qubits at room temperature.

Chloe Archer

PhD Student starting in 2025. My research focuses on using triplet fusion to improve the efficiency of solar cells. This project involves using a variety of characterisation techniques to explore how the energetics of different materials affect each of the steps in the upconversion mechanism.

Previous group members

Robert 'Robbie' Oliver

Now a lecturer in Sheffield University's CMBE School. His current group focuses on understanding the interplay between the photophysics, device physics and materials properties of novel semiconducting materials with an emphasis on metal halide perovskites.

Ravi Kumar Venkatraman

Moved on to become Research Assistant Professor at the SRM Institute of Science and Technology in Chennai, India. His current group focuses on ultrafast vibrational spectroscopy.

Samara Medina Rivero

Now a MCSA postdoctoral research fellow in Belgium working on the spin chemistry of biradical/radicaloid materials.

Andrew Musser

Professor at Cornell University, working on organic exciton polaritons, singlet fission and other things.

Daniel Polak

Currently a postdoc at the University of Leicester with Andrew Ellis.

Sandra Korychenska

Technology Development & Project Manager at Cambridge Enterprise.

Jozra Garrido Velasco

Teaching professor, Facultad de Química - UNAM, Mexico.

Branislav Dzurnak

Research Scientist at the Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics in Czech Technical University, Prague.

Markus Arthur Anton

Postdoc in the Molecular Nanophotonics Group, Universität Leipzig.

Mark Wilson

Professor, University of Toronto. Research focuses on Nanostructured materials—conjugated organic molecules, colloidal quantum dots, and other low-dimensional semiconductors.

Simon Gélinas

Lead data scientist at Upwork and founder of SiGe.Ai.

Visitors and Project Students

Wataru Ishii (PhD student, Tokyo University)

Yoichi Sasaki (PhD student, now professor at Kyushu University)

Ni Boonmong (PhD student, Kyushu University)

Alex Bretton (Masters student, now working at Oxford PV)

Daniel Farbowitz (Masters student, now doing a PhD at the Danmarks Tekniske Universitet)

Manmini Gunasekera (SURE student)

Atharva Gadre (SURE student)

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