Dirk Aarts

Professor of Chemistry

We are working in soft condensed matter with a focus on the phase, interface and flow behaviour of colloidal particles. Our main experimental technique is optical microscopy, which includes confocal microscopy, fluorescence and simple video-microscopy (homemade and commercial microscopes). We typically combine this with microfluidics and optical tweezers.

Colloidal suspensions and their interfaces are ubiquitous in nature and have attracted the interest of scientists for many centuries. Colloidal systems are highly interesting and relevant, as they find numerous applications in several industrial branches. In addition, colloids are widely accepted as a versatile model system for atoms and molecules as their rich phase behaviour is analogous to that of atomic and molecular systems. The typical colloidal length and time scales make it possible to directly observe colloidal particles in real-space and real-time using video and confocal microscopy. Advanced colloid chemistry techniques are available to tune the chemical and physical properties of the particles or even to develop completely new and unique colloidal model systems.

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Research area Imaging Optical Physics

Research interests Colloids Microfluidics Microscopy Optical trapping

Department Chemistry

Dirk Aarts

Professor of Chemistry

We are working in soft condensed matter with a focus on the phase, interface and flow behaviour of colloidal particles.

Harry Anderson FRS

Professor of Chemistry

Our group does research in the areas of molecular materials synthesis, supramolecular chemistry, molecular recognition, polymers and dyes.

Huriye Atilgan

Postdoctoral Researcher, Henry Wellcome Fellow

Postdoctoral Researcher, Henry Wellcome Fellow Research interests: Auditory neuroscience, Auditory scene analysis, Neural circuit mechanisms of value-based decision making, Role of the claustrum in cognition (modulation, large-scale cortical communication), Use of advanced methods in neuroscience

Abhishek Banerjee

Professor of Neuroscience at Queen Mary University, London and Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellow at University of Oxford

We are interested in studying neural circuit mechanisms underlying the flexibility of decision-making and how circuit dysfunctions arise in animal models of neurological disorders.

Richard Berry

Associate Professor of Physics

My research is focused on rotary molecular motors, in particular the Bacterial Flagellar Motor, which is a rotary molecular engine powered by the flow of ions across the inner, or cytoplasmic, membrane of a bacterial cell envelope.

Harish Bhaskaran

Professor of Applied Nanomaterials

I run the Advanced Nanoscale Engineering Lab.

Ruy Sebastian Bonilla

Associate Professor of Materials

My research aims to understand the interfaces between electronic materials, to develop new processing for advanced nanolayer materials, and to apply them to new and improved electronic, optical, electrochemical, and computing devices.

Martin Booth

Professor of Electrical Engineering

My research interests lie in the theory and practice of dynamic optics, particularly the use of adaptive optical elements in high resolution microscopy and ultrafast laser fabrication.

Randy Bruno

Professor of Neuroscience

My lab investigates the workings of cortical circuitry, using a combination of techniques: anatomy, intracellular recording, two-photon microscopy, optogenetics, and behavior.

Gianfelice Cinque

Diamond Light Source and University of Oxford (honorary)

My main research focus is on IR microspectroscopy in (bio)physics and biomedicine, synchrotron radiation spectroscopy and imaging, and on the development of near field IR imaging and Coherent SR THz spectroscopy techniques.