"...it is quite simply excellent..."
"...exemplary..."
"...a fantastic resource..."

Visit the book website at
opticaltweezers.org
for supplementary material

Available from CUP or Amazon from 03 Dec 2015

Optical Biology PhD Programme
Open for applications
01 Oct - 09 Jan 2023
to start PhD in September 2023

OPTICAL TRAPPING SUMMER SCHOOL 2018
Hosted by the Soft Matter Group, U Gothenburg
29 May - 01 June 2018

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2023 Darwin Lectures
'Isolation'

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Optical trapping and manipulation of nanostructures Nat. Nanotech. 8 807-819 (2013) reaches 1000 citations (Scopus)

Welcome to Alex Stamov, who has joined us for his Physics MSci project

Welcome to Defne Aydin, who has joined us with a Brian Duff Memorial Scholarship for an undergraduate summer project on microfluidics

We have a PhD studentship for a project on Optical Skyrmions available to start in October 2026 (deadline for applications 05 Jan 26). Contact Phil to find out more about the project and the application process.

Welcome to our new project students for 2025-26: Zhaoyang Li, Isaac Dennis, Ashton Elder and Ellen Tong

Optical trapping and manipulation of nanostructures Nat. Nanotech. 8 807-819 (2013) reaches 900 citations (Scopus)

Our paper Optical tweezers and their applications, J Quant Spectr Rad Transf 218 131-150 (2018) reaches 100 citations (Scopus)

Two PhD studentships available for start in September 2025: One on optical trapping of nanomaterials with Prof Chris Howard, one on using optical tweezers to probe mechanics of the basal membrane with Prof Franck Pichaud. Deadline for applications is 31 Jan 25. Contact Phil for details and informal enquiries.

The book of the 2023 Darwin Lectures "Isolation" is now available as Open Access

The QAA Subject Benchmark Statement for Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics is open for consultation

Our paper M. Rashid et al, Focusing of high order cylindrical vector beams reaches 100 citations (Scopus)

Rotation projects and PhD project available for Optical Biology CDT students to measure mechanical forces in the basement membrane, co-supervised with Franck Pichaud

Welcome to Roshan Mehta and Isaac Dennis who have joined the group for projects this year

Paper 'Patchy landscapes promote stability of small groups' published as G. Jacucci et al, Communications Physics 7 245 (2024)

Optical trapping and manipulation of nanostructures Nat. Nanotech. 8 807-819 (2013) reaches 800 citations (Scopus)

The Feature Issue of Biomedical Optics Express presenting papers from the Optical Manipulation and its Applications conference (2023) is now published

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