Postdoctoral Research Associates
Caleb Jordan, 2023-
	Caleb joined the Oliver group as a postdoctoral research associate in spring 2023 as part of EPSRC programme grant Ultrafast Photochemical Dynamics in Complex Environments. His work will focus on the investigation of chromophore-environment interactions by multidimensional femtosecond laser spectroscopy. Previously, Caleb completed his PhD at Durham University under the supervision of Prof. Jan Verlet, using ultrafast electronic sum-frequency generation to probe excited state photodynamics at solution/air interfaces. He received his MSci in Natural Sciences from Durham University, also under the supervision of Prof. Jan Verlet, studying the hydrated electron by ultrafast transient absorption spectroscopy.
Alex Stuart, 2025-
	Alex joined the group in 2025 as part of the BBSRC sLoLa Creating and Comprehending the Circuitry of Life grant. She previously worked as a postdoc at the University of Sydney with Prof. Girish Lakhwani, where she used optical spectroscopy to study the photophysics of organic semiconductors for optoelectronic applications. Prior to this Alex completed a PhD at the University of Adelaide with A/Prof. Tak Kee and A/Prof David Huang, primarily on singlet fission and the photochemistry of polyacenes.
Sanjoy Patra, 2026-
	Sanjoy joined the Oliver group as part of the EPSRC-NSF Quantum Information Science grant, investigating spin-correlation and coherences.  Sanjoy completed his MSc-PhD at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, under the supervision of Dr. Vivek Tiwari, where he focused on the development and optimisation of polarisation-controlled multidimensional electronic spectroscopy to study singlet fission and symmetry-breaking charge separation in molecular dyads. In his MSc, he also developed theoretical frameworks for formulating effective normal modes to describe vibronic effects in molecular dyads.
PhD Students
Meiyue Liu, 2023-
	Meiyue joined the Oliver group after completing an MChem at the University of St Andrews. For her final year project, she investigated the framework lability of zeolites using solid-state NMR in the Ashbrook group. She started her PhD in 2023 and has joined the BBSRC sLoLa Creating and Comprehending the Circuitry of Life grant.
Jacob Jones, 2023-
	Jacob graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a degree in Chemical Physics in 2023. His final year project was based at the Swiss free electron laser, as part of an exchange with EPFL, where he worked on the design and implementation of a prism compressor. He joined the Oliver group in September 2023 as part of EPSRC programme grant Ultrafast Photochemical Dynamics in Complex Environments.
Sam Arrowsmith, 2024-
	Sam completed his MChem at the University of Oxford in 2024. His final year project, with Prof. Claire Vallance, investigated Coulomb explosion imaging as a probe for structural determination of small molecules using a femtosecond laser.

Group alumni can be found here.

Old group photos here.