Nanostructured Photonic Metamaterials
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Research Staff & Students
Programme Manager
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 Photon-12 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. |
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. |
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
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. 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". In 2010 he was appointed as a Leverhulme Trust Advanced Research Fellow to lead work on active and switchable metamaterials. |
Research Students
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. |
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. |
![Mr. Jun-Yu [Bruce] Ou](jun_yu_ou.jpg)
Vassili received his MPHYS (Physics with Mathematics) at the School of Physics, University of Southampton, in 2010. He is currently a first year student at the Optoelectronics Research Centre (University of Southampton). His research interests are superconducting and toroidal metamaterials. |
Alberto received his BSc in Electronic Engineering in November 2007 from Università degli Studi di Palermo (Italy) and the MSc in Electronic Engineering in March from the same University. In October 2010 he joined the Pulsed Laser Deposition (PLD) research group in the Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) of the Univerity of Southampton as a postgraduate research student. His current research interests are in Ti:sapphire waveguide lasers and in magneto-optical garnets. |
Gavin received his MSci from the School of Physics and Astronomy at University College London in July 2009. In October 2009 joined the Magnetism and Superconductivity research group in Physics and Astronomy, but also works closely with the Optoelectronics research centre. His research interests are magnetic metamaterials and magnetic multilayers. |
Jianfa Zhang is currently a first year PhD student at the University of Southampton. He received his Bachelor's degree in Engineering from National University of Defence Technology (NUDT), China in 2007. After that, he continued to study at NUDT as a Master student and was transferred to be a PhD student in February, 2009. He ceased his studies at NUDT and joined the Optoelectronics Research Centre in October, 2009. |
Visitors
Mr. Wei Ting Chen is currently a Visitor at the Optoelectronics Research Centre at University of Southampton. He received his Master's degree with Dean's Award in Graduated Institute of Physics from National Taiwan University (NTU) in 2011. After that, he continued to study at NTU as a PhD student. His current research interests lie in the fields of metamaterials and nanophotonics. |
Dr. Hsiu-Ming Tsai is currently a Visitor at the Optoelectronics Research Centre at University of Southampton. In 2011, Dr. Tsai received his Ph. D. from National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, on the doctoral thesis "Development for Mueller matrix Imaging Polarimetry". His professional expertise lies in the fields of polarization metrology, especially in system optimization and 2D polarimetric measurement. |
