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Members

Prof. Phil Jones

Sandrine Heijnen

Cigdem Boz

Shiyi (Ed) Chen

Nina O'Toole

Collaborators

Onofrio Marago; NanoSoft Lab, IPCF-CNR, Messina, Sicily

Giovanni Volpe; Soft Matter Lab, Gothenburg University, Sweden

Burcin Unlu; Medical Physics Group, Bogazici University, Istanbul

Yuval Elani; Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College

Dario Carugo; Pharmaceutics, UCL School of Pharmacy

Eleanor Stride; Biomedical Ultrasonics & Biotherapy Lab, Oxford University

Ferruccio Renzoni; Department of Physics & Astronomy, UCL

MSC-ITN ActiveMatter

NOIs Collaboration; UC Cork, TU Wien, U Innsbruck & Institute of Spectroscopy, Moscow

Jixiong Pu; Huaqiao University

An experimental research group, based in the Biological Physics (BioP) section of the Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCL.

The UCL Optical Tweezers Group, autumn 2013
(L-R) Chris F, Tom, Chris R, Alessandro

OPTICAL TWEEZERS: PRINCIPLES & APPLICATIONS
P H Jones, O M Marago & G Volpe




"...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 - 13 Dec 2021
to start PhD in September 2022

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

Optical trapping and manipulation of nanostructures Nat. Nanotech. 8 807-819 (2013) reaches 700 citations (Scopus)

Welcome to Nina O'Toole, who has joined the group for a PhD, working on a collaborative project with Yuval Elani

Welcome back to Shiyi Chen, who after completing his MSci project with us, has re-joined us for a PhD

Welcome to Cigdem Boz, who has joined the group to study for a PhD

Congratulations to Riccardo Tognato for successfully defending his thesis

Our paper 'Assessment of red blood cell deformability in type 2 diabetes mellitus and diabetic retinopathy by dual optical tweezers stretching technique', Scientific Reports 6 15873 (2016) reaches 100 citations (Scopus)

Paper H. Chen et al, 'Influence of slow light effect on trapping force in optical tweezers', Optics Letters 47 710-713 (2022) is published

Congratulations to Riccardo Tognato for submitting his thesis

A warm welcome to David Bronte Ciriza, who is visiting the group as part of the MSC-ITN ActiveMatter.

PhD studentship on collaborative project with Yuval Elani (Imperial) and Guido Bolognesi (U Loughborough) on 'Characterisation of interfacial biological materials' as part of the ACM-CDT. Contact Phil for more details.

Phil is giving a seminar for the SPIE Student Chapter of IISER Kolkata, Wed 08 Dec 21

Welcome to Anna Jorgensen, who has joined the group for a TransPharmTech CDT MRes project, jointly supervised by Dr Dario Carugo (UCL School of Pharmacy)

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