About us

We are an interdisciplinary team of experimental physicists, chemists and material scientists.

What unifies us is an interest in probing the excited state dynamics and spin physics of emerging material systems.

We are looking to hire enthusiastic PhD students, Summer Interns, Masters and Postdocs to join in 2025/6. Contact hannah.stern@materials.ox.ac.uk to learn more.

Prof. Hannah Stern

Associate Professor, Royal Society URF

Dr. Jeannine Grüne (starting Oct 2025)

1851 Research Fellow

Toby Mitchell

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Finlay Campbell, PhD Student

finlay.campbell@materials.ox.ac.uk

Sivasruthi Kesavan, PhD Student

sivasruthi.kesavan@materials.ox.ac.uk

Jin Zhou, PhD Student

jin.zhou@materials.ox.ac.uk

Jenna Pirazzi

PhD Student (starting Sep 2025)

Co-supervised PhD students with Professor Mete Atatüre at the University of Cambridge: Oliver Powell, Stephanie Fraser and Catherine Curtin.

Alumni

Dillon Lewis (PhD Student, UCL)

Tianyi Fu (Undergraduate, University of Cambridge)

Dr. Simone Eizagirre Barker (Nu Quantum)

Shichao Wang (MPhil, University of Cambridge)

Xiaoxi Deng (PhD student, Oxford)

Collaborators

A non-exhaustive list of our collaborators:

  • Professor Mete Atatüre (University of Cambridge, UK)

  • Professor Jason Smith (University of Oxford, UK)

  • Dr. Carmem M. Gilardoni (Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas, Brazil)

  • Professor Hoe Tan (Australian National University, Canberra, Australia)

  • Dr. Viktor Ivady (Budapest, Hungary)

  • Dr. Joseph Prentice (University of Manchester, UK)

  • Professor Igor Aharonovich (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia)

  • Dr Andrew Ramsey (Hitachi, Cambridge)

  • Professor Sir Richard Friend (Department of Physics, University of Cambridge)

  • Professor Akshay Rao (Department of Physics, University of Cambridge)