Matthew Fuchter

Professor Matthew Fuchter at Oxford leads a multidisciplinary research group focused on designing functional molecules, chiral materials, and photoswitchable systems with applications across materials science, medicine and sustainable technologies. His team has advanced heteroaromatic photoswitches—particularly azoheteroarenes—surpassing conventional azobenzene systems in performance, stability, and reversibility, enabling fine control in photopharmacology, molecular devices, and energy storage. He is also pioneering chiral optoelectronic materials, exploiting molecular chirality to control light emission, detection, and electron spin in devices such as OLEDs and photodetectors.