Research Staff & Students

Dr. Kevin MacDonald
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Dr. MacDonald is a Senior Research Fellow with the Optoelectronics Research Centre’s Nanophotonics & Metamaterials Group and Manager of the University’s interdisciplinary EPSRC Programme on Nanostructured Photonic Metamaterials. He received MPhys and PhD degrees from the University of Southampton’s School of Physics and Astronomy and joined the school as a research fellow in 2001, before moving to the ORC in 2006. His research interests lie in the fields of ultrafast, electron-beam and phase-change nanophotonics, plasmonics and metamaterials. Dr. MacDonald sits on the program committees of the QEP-19 conference and IEEE Photonics Society Annual Meeting (Integrated Optics, Optoelectronics & Interconnects) and on the steering committee of the Institute of Physics’ Quantum Electronics & Photonics Group. He is a member of the Optical Society of America and the European Physical Society and participates in EU COST Actions MP0803 and MP0702.

Dr. Takashi Uchino
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Dr. Uchino is a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Electronics & Computer Science. He received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Materials Science from the Tsukuba University, Japan in 1986 and 1989, respectively. In 1989, he joined the Central Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd., Japan, where he was engaged in the development of high-speed silicon bipolar transistors, BiCMOS, and CMOS for super computers. From 1999 to 2002, he was with the Semiconductor & Integrated Circuits Group, Hitachi, Ltd., Japan where he was engaged in the development of 0.13 μm high speed SRAM. In 2002, he joined the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton where his research interests lie in the technology and physics of novel devices and nanotube devices.

Dr. Stewart Jenkins
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Dr. Stewart Jenkins obtained his Ph.D. in Physics from the Georgia Institute of Technology (USA) in 2006, where he performed research in theoretical quantum and nonlinear optics with applications to quantum information. He has since held research posts at the University of Insubria (Como, Italy) and the Georgia Institute of Technology. He joined the School of Mathematics at the University of Southampton as a Research Fellow in 2010 where his work is focused on the theory of electromagnetic field interactions with metamaterials, including collective phenomena mediated by such interactions and quantum effects that may arise.

Mr. Roger Buckingham
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Mr. Buckingham received an MPhys degree from the University of Southampton’s School of Physics and Astronomy in 2006 and subsequently joined the school’s Magnetism and Superconductivity research group, preparing a doctoral thesis entitled "Modifying the magnetic properties of Laves phase intermetallic multilayers and films by nano-patterning and ion implantation". He was appointed as a Research Fellow in 2010 to lead research on superconducting and magnetic metamaterials within the Programme on Nanostructured Photonic Metamaterials.

Dr. Eric Plum
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After his undergraduate studies at RWTH Aachen (Germany), University of Southampton and as a Fulbright Scholar at New Mexico Tech (USA), Dr. Plum joined the metamaterials research group at Southampton's Optoelectronics Research Centre, preparing his Ph.D. thesis on "Chirality and Metamaterials". He is a 2009 Marconi Young Scholar and in 2010 he was appointed as a Research Fellow to lead work on active and switchable metamaterials.

Mr. Jun Yu [Bruce] Ou
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Jun Yu Ou received his MS from the Department of Physics, National Changhua University of Education, Taiwan in 2005. He worked as a research assistant at the Nanotechnology Research Center in the National Changhua University of Education from 2007 to 2008, then as a Customer Support Specialist for E. B. Tech. Co., LTD. (the commercial agent of FEI Company in Taiwan). Since January 2010 he has been a PhD student with the Optoelectronics Research Centre at the University of Southampton.

Dr. Shufeng Li
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