Well done to Daniel, Alex, Gui and Olivia’s for having their paper exploring the complex photophysics of diphenyloctatetraene in 10 different solvents accepted for publication in the Journal of Physical Chemistry B. The manuscript represents Tom’s contribution to the Emerging Researchers in Physical Chemistry Volume 2 special issue of JPC. The article can be read here.
Hilary McCarthy has won a poster prize at the 2023 GRC conference on Photosynthesis for her work on carbon dots and algae. Very well done Hilary!
Work led by Ross Anderson’s group to create a family of heme containing redox de novo maquette proteins has been published in PNAS. The paper entitled “An expandable, modular de novo protein platform for precision redox engineering” details the modular protein design and characterisation of the 4D2 family of proteins which will be used to explore long-range photoinduced electron transfer, and is one of the cornerstones of the Circuits of Life BBSRC sLoLa project. A news article from the University can be found here.
Well done to Dr Teo Garcia Milan (jointly supervised with Carmen Galan) who passed his viva exam with flying colours on 5th June! His PhD thesis focussed on the synthesis and characterisation of fluorescent carbon nanodots used in bioimaging and biosensing. He is now CEO of CDdotbio.
Caleb Jordan has joined the Oliver group as a postdoctoral research associate working on the EPSRC programme grant Ultrafast Photochemical Dynamics in Complex Environments. He will use novel multidimensional optical spectroscopies to how probe chromophore-environment interactions alter photophysical dynamics in an array of different systems. Caleb was previously a PhD student in the group of Prof Jan Verlet at Durham.
A synchronised dual-Pharos laser system with two OPAs was recently installed in the Oliver labs at the University of Bristol by Light Conversion as part of BBSRC sLoLa grant The Circuits of Life (BB/W003449/1). The dual-amplified laser system is capable of seamlessly interrogating dynamics between 100 fs to 1 ms and will be used to track the long-range energy and electron transfer in novel photoactive proteins.
Daniel’s paper detailing the excited state dynamics of three TDPP molecules in solution has been accepted in Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.. The paper includes wavepacket signatures that remarkably originate from nuclear motions created at conical intersections on the excited state potential energy surface.
Welcome to Alex Hannon who joins the group as a summer project student funded by the Royal Society.
Congratulations to Fabiola Cardoso Delgado who passed her PhD viva voce exam. In her PhD studies, Fabiola used reflectance microscopy and time-correlated single photon counting to investigate the response of iridescent chloroplasts in Phyllagathis rotundifolia to different light conditions. Fabiola is now a post-doc at the University of Southern California with Steve Bradforth.
Teo’s paper which demonstrates very small changes in reaction conditions can tune carbon dot fluorescence from the blue to the green has been accepted for publication in Nanoscale, and can be accessed here. Well done Teo!
The Oliver Research Group 