Moritz Riede

Professor of Soft Functional Nanomaterials

Professor Moritz Riede (Oxford) leads the Advanced Functional Materials and Devices (AFMD) group, focusing on organic semiconductor materials and organic photovoltaics. He and his team fabricate and characterise thin-film devices using vacuum thermal evaporation, molecular doping, and multilayer architectures to optimise charge transport and energy conversion. Their work addresses efficiency, stability, and interface energetics challenges in organic solar cells. Beyond lab devices, Riede engages with renewable energy policy, open science, and co-founded companies in the clean energy space.

For further information: https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/research/afmd-group),

Matthew Fuchter

Professor of Chemistry

My research group focus is on functional molecules, chiral materials, and photoswitchable systems with applications across materials science, medicine and sustainable technologies

Gianluca Gregori

Professor of Physics

My research interests are: Laboratory Astrophysics; Fusion energy; Quantum plasmas; Fundamental physics with high-power lasers

Chao He

Associate Professor of Engineering Science

My research interests include polarisation optics, biomedical microscopy and vectorial imaging

Laura Herz

Professor of Physics

My research is focused on investigating nanostructured molecular and inorganic semiconducting materials

Doug Higgs

Emeritus Professor, Consultant Physician

We use state-of-the-art laboratory and computational approaches to understand how mammalian genes are switched on and off during development and differentiation and how this goes awry in human genetic diseases.

Felix Hofmann

Professor of Engineering Science

I’m interested in the effect of defects on material properties, ranging from single atom defects, such as vacancies and interstitials, to extended defects, such as dislocations, to macroscopic defects, for example cracks and voids.