LUMOS

July 2025

Congratulations to Andi Szloboda for presenting a poster at the modISC 2025 in Düsseldorf  on NIR materials for OLED applications!

July 2025

Congratulations to Andrada Cocea for presenting a poster at the modISC 2025 in Düsseldorf  on radical emitters.

A huge congratulations to Mateja for winning the poster competition at modISC 2025—well deserved! 

The LUMOS group has just completed our very first group trip to Germany! A big thank you to the organizers of modISC for the kind invitation to attend and present our work. It was a fantastic opportunity to connect with such an inspiring and interdisciplinary community. 

We're hiring a 3-year Postdoc to join our team working on cutting-edge OLED research. We're looking for an enthusiastic and motivated researcher with hands-on experience in organic semiconductors materials and devices. Apply here 

We are excited to share that Dr Paloma has received the EPSRC New Investigator Award. The project aims to understand and overcome exciton degradation, driving advances in OLED performance and display technologies. 

Dr Paloma dos Santos is co-guest-editing a Focus Issue on Organic Excitonic Materials in the IOP Journal of Physics Materials, check out https://iopscience.iop.org/collections/jpmater-250305-788

If you're working on anything in this space, we would love to see your work in this collection! 

Andrada Cocea presenting a poster at the EEE Symposium 2025 on efficient materials for OLED applications. Well done, Andra!

Mateja presented a poster at the GRC Quantum Biology Conference 2025 organised in Lucca, Italy, sharing research on singlet exciton fission mechanics in photosynthetic light harvesting complexes.

Dr Paloma is currently on maternity leave. During this period, ongoing projects and communications will continue through the team. We look forward to welcoming her back in October 2025. 

Big thanks to Ossila for inviting us to the Christmas dinner. We had a lovely evening!

Well done to Mateja Smitran for presenting a poster on Magnetic Field Effects in Singlet Fission at the prestigious IOP Quantum Biology conference held in London. 

Congratulations to Ella Branigan, who excelled in her polymer based sensors SURE project conducted with our group over the summer, fantastic work!

We had the pleasure of hosting Dr Carmem Gilardone from the University of Cambridge. Thanks for the inspiring talk on color centers for quantum applications and for sharing your insights and expertise on the topic!

Well done Andi Szloboda for delivering a talk at the Semiconductor Materials and Devices PhD Series in the School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering 

Congratulations to Andi Szloboda for presenting a poster at the RSC Photophysics and Photochemistry Early Career Meeting 2024 on NIR TADF Materials!

Check out our latest paper on the correlation between the photophysical properties of TADF emitters and OLED roll-off. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.jpcc.4c02993 

Dr. Paloma dos Santos was invited to give a talk at the prestigious 21st Brazilian Workshop on Semiconductor Physics. She delivered an insightful presentation on the latest advancements in energy-efficient Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLEDs), highlighting cutting-edge developments in the field.

LUMOS summer lunch to congratulate Ella Branigan for finishing her SURE project and welcome Andrada Cocea who will soon be joining the group.

Thrilled to announce that Dr. Paloma dos Santos has been re-elected as an EPSRC WES ambassador! The team is eager to continue addressing challenges faced by women in engineering and is planning exciting initiatives for the 2024-2025 cohort.

New review paper out! In collaboration with Engineering and Physics at Sheffield and Materials Science at Cambridge, we explore how triplet excited states—typically dark and long-lived—in organic semiconductors can be harnessed in useful ways.