About us
We are an interdisciplinary team of experimental physicists, chemists, engineers and material scientists.
What unifies us is an interest in probing the photophysics, excited state dynamics and spin physics of emerging quantum optical material systems.
We are looking to hire enthusiastic PhD students, Summer Interns, Masters and Postdocs to join in 2026/7. Contact hannah.stern@materials.ox.ac.uk to learn more.
Research Fellows
Associate Professor, Department of Materials and Royal Society University Research Fellow
Tutorial Fellow at Trinity College
hannah.stern@materials.ox.ac.uk
Postdoctoral Research Associates
Dr. Toby Mitchell
Postdoctoral Research Associate
toby.mitchell@materials.ox.ac.uk
DPhil Students
Finlay Campbell
DPhil Student
finlay.campbell@materials.ox.ac.uk
Sivasruthi Kesavan
DPhil Student
sivasruthi.kesavan@materials.ox.ac.uk
Jin Zhou
DPhil Student
jin.zhou@materials.ox.ac.uk
Jenna Pirazzi
DPhil Student
jenna.pirazzi@materials.ox.ac.uk
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 (MQTech, University of Oxford)
Dr. Simone Eizagirre Barker (Nu Quantum)
Shichao Wang (MPhil, University of Cambridge)
Xiaoxi Deng (PhD student, Oxford)
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)
Collaborators
A non-exhaustive list of our collaborators: