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Professor Kishan Dholakia, FRSE, OSA Fellow, SPIE Fellow is a Professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy. He has worked here for a number of years as a postdoctoral research fellow, a Royal Society of Edinburgh Research Fellow, and now as a permanent member of staff. His research interests cover pretty much everything related to Optics.

kd1(at)st-andrews.ac.uk

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Research Staff

Michael Mazilu is a post doctoral research fellow at the School of Physics & Astronomy, University of St Andrews (Scotland). His research interests include the foundation of physics and wave-matter interaction. He graduated at the University Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France with the "Magister degree in Materials with Particular Electronic and Mechanic Properties" and a postgraduate diploma on Condensed Matter and Material Physics. Dr. M. Mazilu holds a physics doctoral degree from the University of St Andrews on the subject of Chromatic interaction between light and optoelectronic multilayer structures.

Links to research profiles:

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	Maciej Antkowiak is a Post-doctoral research fellow at the School of Biology, St Andrews. His research interests include development of new techniques for laser manipulation and imaging of live cells. Maciej graduated from the University of Warsaw with an MSc in physics. He then moved to Brussels to obtain a PhD in Photonics from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. After that he worked on digital holography microscopy at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. Maciej joined the Optical Manipulation Group at St Andrews in January 2009 and since October 2009 he is responsible for the development of SULSA (Scottish Universities Life Sciences Alliance) Biophotonics Workstation - a live cell imaging and manipulation facility available for Scottish and international research projects (http://photon.st-andrews.ac.uk/sulsa/). In September 2011 Maciej has been awarded an EPSRC Rising Star Fellowship to work towards application of Optical Transfection to cell selective Optogenetics and Neurophotonics.		ma81(at)st-andrews.ac.uk ext 1655
	Yoshihiko Arita is a Post-doctoral Research Fellow who works on optical photoporation and cell transfection. He obtained his DPhil in physics at Oxford in 2008 then became a PDRA to further his doctoral research on broadband absorption spectroscopy using multi-mode lasers to detect spectral signatures of multiple species. Yoshi also has significant experience in the instrumentation of time-of-flight mass spectrometers (TOF-MS) from working at Kore Technology Ltd in Cambridge and Horiba Ltd in Kyoto for seven years before his PhD.		This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ext 1655
	Heather Dalgarno graduated in 2002 with an MPhys in Laser Engineering and Optoelectronics from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. Heather's PhD studies were a CASE studentship sponsored by the UK Astronomy Technology Centre in Edinburgh. She obtained her PhD in 2006, also from Heriot-Watt, in wavefront sensing for adaptive optics in astronomy and metrology. Heather's post-doctoral work at Heriot-Watt involved adapting technology developed for wavefront sensing and astronomy and applying it to the biosciences. She worked with biology and medical research groups across the UK to design, build and support 'bolt on' optical systems for commercial microscopes to provide real-time 3D imaging and particle tracking. Heather joined the Optical Trapping Group in January 2010 on the new Biophotonics Platform Grant and will be working to apply spatial light modulators and acousto-optics devices in holographic optical tweezers systems to novel biophotonics applications.		This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ext 1658
	Tom Vettenburg received a master degree in computing science engineering in 2002, and the masters in artificial intelligence degree in 2003, from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. Since graduation and until early 2008 he has been working in industry. In 2011 he completed his PhD at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK under supervision of Professor A.R. Harvey. His main research interests are in computational imaging and Fourier optics.		This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ext 1605
	Leilani Torres obtained her BSc and MSc in Physics from the University of the Philippines and has previously worked with the Photonics Research Laboratory in the Philippines before coming to St. Andrews. Her previous works include the generation of frequency converted laser lines using a Raman shifter with capillary waveguide and Fourier imaging in a Raman shifter. She completed her PhD studies, funded by a SUPA prize studentship, in 2011 which was focusses on photoporation.		This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ext 1654
	Matthieu Robert de Saint Vincent obtained an Engineer degree in materials science from the university of technology of Troyes (France) in 2006, then a PhD in physics from the university of Bordeaux (France) in 2010. His research focused on laser-induced manipulation of droplets in microfluidic channels, and spread over several related areas like jet breakup, dynamic interfacial tension effects, and droplet flow characterization. Currently he is a post-doctoral research fellow in St Andrews, working on droplet microfluidics for biophotonics.		This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ext 1658
	Praveen Cheriyan Ashok completed his M.Sc. in Photonics (with distinction) at the Cochin University of Science and Technology (India) in 2008. He completed his PhD in 2011 where he worked in a collaborative project of the Optical Manipulation Group and Microphotonics Group of University of St Andrews. His primary research interest is to develop optofluidic devices enabled with optical manipulation and spectroscopy for bio-medical and chemical applications (Microfluidics, Raman spectroscopy, optical manipulation). Since October 2011, he is working as a post-doctoral research fellow on the project ARAKNES, where he is responsible for developing fiber based Raman sensor for surgical Robot. Links to research profiles: Scopus ID: 35255997700 ResearcherID : C-5235-2008 Academia.edu		pca7(at)st-andrews.ac.uk ext 1656 (Web content manager)
	Svetlana Zolotovskaya received her BSc (Hons) in Optical Engineering & Laser Technology from Belarus National Technical University (Belarus). She then joined the Institute for Optical Materials & Technology as a research assistant to work on the development of novel optical materials for passive Q-switching and mode-locking of various solid-state lasers operating in the near infrared spectral region. In December 2009 she was awarded a PhD degree in Physics from the University of Dundee (UK) for her work on novel semiconductor-based laser systems and their applications. Svetlana is currently a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of St-Andrews. Her research interests include wide-field Raman imaging for biomedical applications.		sz27(at)st-andrews.ac.uk ext 1658
	Caroline Thomson		clt6(at)st-andrews.ac.uk ext: 1619

	24%	Europe
	16%	United Kingdom
	14%	United States
	9%	China
	6%	Germany
	5%	Korea (South)
	4%	India
	3%	France
	2%	Russia
	2%	Japan

06/05/2012 - 5 urgent post-doctoral openings in the group

27/03/2012 - Article in Nano Letters

03/12/2011 - - Top download in OE

Research Staff