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Investigators
Programme Director and Principal Investigator
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Prof. Nikolay I. Zheludev Prof. Zheludev is Deputy Director of the Optoelectronics Research Centre and directs the EPSRC Centre for Nanostructured Photonic Metamaterials. He received PhD and DSc degrees from Moscow State University and joined the faculty at Southampton in 1991. His awards include a Senior Research Fellowship with the Leverhulme Trust, a Senior Research Professorship of the EPSRC and a Royal Society Wolfson Fellowship. Prof. Zheludev is a major grant holder in the UK photonics community, and an international leader in the research field of nanophotonics and metamaterials. Professor Zheludev is Fellow of the Institute of Physics (London) and the Optical Society of America and the Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Optics. |
Co-Investigators
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Prof. Peter Ashburn Prof. Ashburn is head of the Southampton Nanofabrication Centre (SNC). He is a leading international expert in planar silicon and silicon-germanium nanodevices and nanofabrication, carrying out pioneering research on polysilicon emitters, silicon-germanium heterojunctions and ultra-high-speed bipolar transistors. His current research interests include silicon and germanium nano-wire and nano-pillar devices, biosensing and carbon nanotube electronics. Prof Ashburn plays a key role in managing the Southampton Nanofabrication Centre and had a pivotal role in designing and equipping the new clean room. |
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Prof. Peter de Groot Prof. de Groot is a member of the university’s School of Physics and Astronomy, where he leads internationally visible research on thin film, nanostructured and single crystalline magnetic and superconducting materials. His current research interests include the applications of ordered superconducting and magnetic nanostructures in such areas as data-storage, microwave devices, and MEMS. In recent years he has coordinated the EPSRC Network on Magnetic Superlattices and he chairs the Institute of Physics’ Magnetism Group. |
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Prof. Rob Eason Prof. Eason is head of the Nonlinear & Microstructured Optical Materials group and Deputy Head of School (Operations) at the ORC, and a leading international expert in pulsed laser deposition (PLD) and laser induced forward transfer (LIFT). His research interests include optical and nonlinear optical materials, laser-material interactions, the growth and characterisation of optical thin films by PLD, optical waveguides and femtosecond laser technology and applications (particularly direct laser printing). In addition to this Programme, Prof. Eason is a co-investigator on the University of Southampton’s Portfolio Partnership in Photonics. He is a keen advocate of the Public Understanding of Science and received a Royal Society Millennium Award for his work in this area. |
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Prof. Dan Hewak Prof. Hewak leads an ORC research group investigating novel glasses for optoelectronic devices. He obtained his PhD from the University of Waterloo (Canada) in 1989 and spent three years with the National Optics Institute in Quebec City before joining the ORC where he has developed a broad range of experience in new glasses, particularly chalcogenides. His recent activities include research on integrated microsphere circuits, from which the world’s first chalcogenide glass microspheres and microsphere lasers emerged; on optical and electronic phase change memory; and on photonic applications of chalcogenide glass and devices. He holds eleven patents for novel glasses and their applications and works with an extensive network of UK and international collaborators, both in academia and industry. Prof. Hewak serves on the TC20 Committee of the International Congress on Glass; is the editor of a IEE textbook on “Properties, Processing and Applications of Glass and Rare-Earth Doped Glasses for Optical Fibres”; and section editor for Optical Materials in the journal Current Opinion in Solid State Materials. |
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Prof. Janne Ruostekoski Prof. Ruostekoski is head of the Mathematical Optical Physics group at the School of Mathematics, a former EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow and a leading international expert in the theory of light interaction with quantum and many-particle systems, including coherent and collective phenomena and light propagation. His recent work has focused on ultra-cold atoms in periodic optical lattice potentials, atomic superfluidity, topological excitations, atom optics, cooperative optical response of correlated many-particle systems, electromagnetically-induced transparency, ultra-slow and stopped light propagation and on the detection, manipulation and control of ultra-cold atoms by means of electromagnetic fields and quantum optics. |
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Dr. Vassili Fedotov Dr. Fedotov holds a 5-year EPSRC Career Acceleration Fellowship in Nanostructured Metafilms at the ORC and is an expert in the computational modelling, microwave and optical characterization of metamaterials. He is a highly visible member of the international research community and an active contributor to the EU Virtual Institute for Artificial Electromagnetic Materials and Metamaterials (www.metamorphose-eu.org), the largest European Metamaterials Network. Dr. Fedotov was a key designer and coordinator of the University of Southampton's SRIF-funded Metamaterials Test Facility and a co-author of the European FP7 research programme 'ENSEMBLE' on self-organized materials. His current research interests include Novel electromagnetic properties of metamaterials; Optical manifestation of fundamental symmetry breaking (3D- and 2D-chirality); Light-matter interaction at the nano-scale, nanoscale light localization and plasmons; Electrodynamics of supertoroidal current configurations |
Visitors
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Prof. F. Javier García de Abajo Prof. García de Abajo is one of the world's foremost authorities on the theory and modelling of photonic nanostructures. He obtained BSc and PhD degrees in Physics from the University of the Basque Country, Spain before joining the faculty there as an Associate Professor in 1993. From 1997 to 2000 he was a visiting Professor at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California. Since 2000 he has worked for the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain, being appointed as a Research Professor with the Instituto de Óptica, Madrid in 2008. Prof. García de Abajo is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Optical Society of America. His current research interests are plasmons in nanoparticles, the optical response of patterned surfaces, and the interaction of swift electrons with nanostructured materials. |
