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Research Staff & Students
Programme Manager
Dr. MacDonald is a Principal 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 steering committee of the Institute of Physics’ Quantum Electronics & Photonics Group and is a member of the Optical Society of America, the SPIE and the European Physical Society. |
Project Leader: Quantum and Superconducting Metamaterials
Dr. Delfanazari investigated superconducting terahertz (THz) devices during his Ph.D work at the University of Tsukuba, Japan, where he received the Dean’s Award for Excellence in the Ph.D thesis, and the Japanese Government Scholarship, etc. His research interests lie in the areas of superconducting electronics and photonics including Josephson junctions and SQUIDs, Metamaterials, and Plasmonic Devices. |
Project Leader: Optical Data Processing with Metamaterials
Xu Fang completed his undergraduate studies in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering of Tsinghua University in 2004, and his PhD studies in Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2009. Between 2009 and 2012 he was a postdoctoral researcher in RIKEN (The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research), Japan. Since June 2012 he is a research fellow at the Optoelectronics Research Centre. His current research interests are in metamaterials and ultrafast optics. |
Project Leader: Quantum Effects in Nanostructured Photonic Metamaterials
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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. |
Project Leader: Active and Switchable Photonic Metamaterials
Dr. Plum is a Research Track Lecturer and Advanced Leverhulme Trust Fellow leading work on active and switchable metamaterials since 2010. His main research interests lie in the areas of reconfigurable metamaterials and chiral effects in metamaterials. After his undergraduate studies at RWTH Aachen (Germany), University of Southampton (UK) and as a Fulbright Scholar at New Mexico Tech (USA), Dr. Plum joined the metamaterials research group at Southampton's Optoelectronics Research Centre. He is a 2009 Marconi Young Scholar and he was awarded the IOP thesis prize (QEP group) for his PhD thesis on "Chirality and Metamaterials". |
Project Leader: Low-dimensional Carbon Metamaterials
Nikitas Papasimakis completed his undergraduate studies in the Physics Department of the Athens National University, Greece in 2005 and his PhD studies in the Optoelectronics Research Centre at the University of Southampton in 2009. In the same year, he was awarded a PhD Plus fellowship to continue his research as a postdoctoral fellow and in 2010 he was appointed Leverhulme Advanced Research fellow at the same institution. |
Project Leader: Metamaterial Light Nano-sources Driven by Electron Beams
Dr. So obtained a BSc in Physics from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea in 2001. His PhD was on the interaction between metamaterials and convection electrons in the terahertz frequency range and was awarded by the Seoul National University, Korea in 2009. He is now a Research Fellow in the university's Optoelectronics Research Centre. His current research interests are in the interaction between metamaterials and electron beams. |
Researchers & Students
Dr. Ou obtained his MSc in Physics, National Changhua University of Education, Taiwan in 2005. He was a SEM/FIB Specialist in E.B. Tech. Co., LTD. (commercial agent of FEI, Taiwan) from 2008 to 2009. He completed his PhD studies on "Reconfigurable Photonic Metamaterials" in the Optoelectronics Research Centre at the University of Southampton in 2014. He was awarded EPSRC Doctoral Prize fellowship to continue his research as a postdoctoral research fellow and he was awarded the IOP 2015 Doctoral Research Prize (QEP group). |
![Mr. Jun-Yu [Bruce] Ou](jun_yu_ou.jpg)
Dr. Savinov obtained his MPhys (Physics with Mathematics) degree from the University of Southampton in 2010, and his PhD degree on "Novel Toroidal and Superconducting Metamaterials" from the Optoelectronics Research Centre at the University of Southampton in 2013. He was awarded a one-year EPSRC Doctoral Prize fellowship in 2014. His interest lie in the areas of plasmonics, optical metamaterials and toroidal electrodynamics. |
Evangelos Atmatzakis recieved his Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 2010. He is currently a PhD student with the Optoelectronics Research Centre at the University of Southampton. |
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Jonathan Maddock received his Master's (MPhys) from the University of Manchester in 2011, and is now a PhD candidate in both the Novel Glasses and Metamaterials groups at the Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton. |
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Derek received his BSc (Hons) in Mathematics from the Open University in 2008. He received his MSc Mathematics from the University of Leeds in 2011. Presently he is a PhD student at the University of Southampton studying the theoretical and numerical modeling of electromagnetic properties of metamaterials under Prof Janne Ruostekoski in the department of Mathematics. |
João Valente received his MSc degree, in 2010, from University of Aveiro and Technical University of Hamburg Harburg with the aim of an European Masters in Material Science. During this masters program his research was focused on High Dielectric Materials for Microelectronic applications. His previous graduate studies (Diploma) were conducted at New University of Lisbon and his final thesis - "Transparent Conductive Metal Oxides for Microelectronics" - was done in collaboration with Renato Archer Research Center in Campinas, Brazil. Finishing in 2007 his Material Science and Engineering Course with distinctive classification he started his research career being enrolled in different projects, from particle physics to solar cells. So far, his main work has been done in fields of Transparent Conductive Oxides for microelectronics applications, Thin Films Transistors and Sensors development. He started his PhD studies at ORC, University of Southampton in March 2012. |
Tim received his MPhys (Physics with Study in New Zealand) from the University of Exeter in 2012. Over the course of his Masters, he conducted research concerning the use of graphene-based thermoacoustic devices, graphene field-effect transistors and non-linear optics. Tim joined the Optoelectronics Research Centre as a PhD student in September 2012, with research focussing on toroidal metamaterials.He started his PhD studies at ORC, University of Southampton in March 2012. |
Robin Waters is a current PhD student at the ORC. He received his Masters degree in Physics with European Study from the University of Exeter in June 2012. His research there included the development of and programming for modern Kerr microscopes. He joined the Optoelectronics Research Centre in October 2012. |
Visitors
Mr. Shinya Hakuta is currently a Visitor at the Optoelectronics Research Centre at University of Southampton. He received his Master's degree in Applied Physics from the University of Tokyo (Japan). Since 2008, he has been working for Fujifilm Corporation in Japan, where he has been involved in the research of nanophotonic devices and plasmonic metamaterial films. |
Dr. Alexandra Rogacheva received MSc (summa cum laude, 1998) and PhD (2004) from M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russia). In year 2005 she was visiting Metamaterials Group at the University of Southampton's School of Physics and Astronomy as a research assistant. Since 2006 she has been working for EXPRO Wireless Well Solutions (UK) providing analytical support for research and operational activities. In May 2010 Alexandra re-joined Metamaterials Group as a visiting researcher (now at the University of Southampton's Optoelectronics Research Centre). Her current research interests lie in the fields of metamaterials and toroidal electrodynamics. |
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