Academic staff


Professor Carla Figueira de Morisson Faria

Professor of Physics
E-mail: c.faria@ucl.ac.uk
Office:Wilkins 230 (internal office)


Post-Doctoral Research Fellows

Andy Maxwell

Dr Andrew Maxwell

UCLQ Fellow (this is a competitive position awarded by UCLQuantum)

PhD student
(10/2014 -- 09/2018)


Thesis topic: Coulomb corrected approaches, below-threshold NSDI, quantum interference

Winner of the Europhysical Journal (EPJ) Poster Prize at the
International Conference on Photonic, Electronic and Atomic Collisions(ICPEAC), Toledo, Spain

Runner-up talk at the 2016 IoP AMIG meeting, Dublin, Ireland

Runner-up poster Prize at the Extreme Light Infrastructure Summer
School (ELISS), Romenia

Research students



Heloise

Heloise Chomet

PhD student
(10/2017 -- )

Thesis topic: Novel approaches for matter in strong fields

Visitor (01/2017 - 09/2017)

MSci student
(10/ 2015 - 04/2016)
Thesis topic: Plasmonically enhanced high-order  harmonic generation
Final mark: 79/100

Winner of the best poster competition prize at UCL & ICL Undergraduate Physics Conference (together with Matthew Bonner)


Prizes at CECAM School on New Computational Methods for Attosecond Molecular Processes (Zaragoza, Spain)

Abbie

Abbie Bray

PhD student
(10/2018 -- )

Thesis topic: Photoelectron holography with tailored fields

Prizes at CECAM School on New Computational Methods for Attosecond Molecular Processes (Zaragoza, Spain)

Idris Sardary

MSci student

(10/2018 -- )

Thesis topic: Photoelectron holography with tailored fields NSDI

Dhruva Sarkar

MSci student

(10/2018 -- )

Thesis topic: Wave-packet dynamics in phase space


visitors



Supriya

Supriya Rai

(10/2015 -- 03/2018)
Lovely University, India
Research topic: Macroscopic response
(high-order harmonic generation)

Prof Cherif Matta

(03/2013 - 05/2013)
Department of Chemistry
Mount Saint Vincent University
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Dr Angel S. Sanz Ortiz

(02/2012--08/2013)
Investigador "Ramón y Cajal"
Instituto de Fisica Fundamental
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
Madrid, Spain

Dr Joseph Sanderson

(2016)
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Dr Weifeng Yang

(10/2007 - 12/2007)

Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai


Former members

Jie Wu

Dr Jie Wu


PhD student
(10/2010 - 09/2014)

Thesis title: "Novel orbit-based approaches for matter in strong laser fields"

Winner of an CSC/BIS China-UK Studentship for Excellence


Winner of a UCL Overseas Research Studentship

Toni DasDr Toni Das


Post-Doctoral Research Associate (10/2016 - 12/2016)

PhD student
(10/ 2012 -  09/ 2016)

Thesis title: “Quantum-orbit analysis of laser-matter interactions in intense orthogonally polarised fields"

MSc student (10/2011 -- 09/2012)
Thesis topic: High-order harmonic generation from molecules in elliptically polarized fields
Project mark: 70/100

Xuanyang
                          Lai

Dr Xuanyang Lai





Post-Doctoral Research Associate
(09/2012 - 09/2013 )

Now permanent staff at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan

Carlos

Dr Carlos Zagoya Montiel




Post-Doctoral Research Associate
(09/2013 - 04/2016 )

Ahmed

Ahmed Al Jawahiry

MSc student
(10/2015 -- 09/2017)
Thesis Topic: Interference effects in Coulomb-corrected photoelectron
holography
Final mark: 95/100

Winner of the Harrie Massey Prize for best overall UCL Physics and
Astronomy MSc student

Nominated for the for the UCL Faculty of Mathematical and Physical Sciences Postgraduate Prize



Matt

Matthew Bonner

MSci student
(10/2015 - 04/2016)
Thesis topic: Plasmonically enhanced high-order  harmonic generation
Final mark: 91/100

Winner of the best MSci talk 2016 – UCL Physics and Astronomy

Winner of the best poster competition prize at UCL & ICL
Undergraduate Physics Conference (together with Heloise Chomet)

EmmaSlade

Emma Slade

EPSRC summer student
(07/2015 - 09/2015)

Winner of the 2015 UCL William Bragg Prize for best overall undergraduate

RuthAyers


Ruth Ayers

EPSRC summer student
(07/2013 - 09/2013 )

Winner of the 2015 Burhop prize for best performance in 4th year physics

Rebecca Tenney

MSci student

(10/2016 -- 04/2018 )

Thesis topic: Controlling quantum interference in below-threshold NSDI
Final mark: 90/100

Lewis Ling

Msci student

(10/2017 -- 04/2018 )

Thesis topic: Controlling quantum interference in below-threshold NSDI
Final mark: 70/100

Yuhan Chai


MSci student
(10/2015 - 04/2016)
Topic: Coulomb-corrected photoelectron holography in elliptically polarized fields

Project mark: 62/100

Mohamed (Hadi) Ali


MSci student
(10/2015 - 12/2015)

Topic: Coulomb-corrected photoelectron holography

Neerav Bhansali


MSci student
(10/2015 - 04/2016)

Topic: Nonsequential double ionization with few-cycle laser pulses

Project mark: 64/100

Kevin Ngo


MSci student
(10/2016 - 12/2016)

Topic: Quantum Interference in below-threshold nonsequential double ionization

Daniel Gradeci


MSci student
(10/2014 - 04/2015)

Topic: Quantum interference in below-threshold nonsequential double ionization

Project mark: 70/100

Mark Donnelly


MSc student
(10/2011 - 12/2011)

Topic: High-order harmonic generation in heteronuclear molecuels

Brad
                          Augstein

Dr Bradley Bernhard Augstein

Visitor
(03/2013--10/ 2016)

Post-Doctoral Research Associate
(01/2012 - 02/2013)

PhD student
(10/2008 -- 12/2011)
Thesis title: "Orbit-based studies of quantum-interference effects in atomic and molecular high-order harmonic generation"

EPSRC Doctoral Training Prize 2011
Carey Foster Prize for Outstanding Postgraduate Research (AMOPP) (2012)

Tahir Shaaran

Dr Tahir Shaaran

Post-Doctoral Research Associate
(01/2011 - 12/2011)

PhD student
(10/2007 - 12/2010)
Thesis title: "A rigorous treatment of excitation and quantum interference in laser-induced nonsequential double ionization of atoms and molecules"

Carey Foster Prize for Outstanding Postgraduate Research (AMOPP)
EPSRC/UCL PhD+ Award

Tom
                          Nygren

Mikko Tuomas Nygren

Visitor (2009-2010)


EPSRC summer student (06/2009-09/2009)

Part-time BSc student
(10/2008 - 04/2009)
Project  mark: 73/100)

Zhaohe
                          (Flora) Liang

Zhaohe (Flora) Liang

MSc student
(01/2011 - 09/2012)


Thesis topic: Nonsequential double ionization in N2 with few-cycle laser pulses
Project mark: 82/100