Organisation, our people

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Research management team

• Dr Loyd McKnight . Head of Centre,
• Dr John-Mark Hopkins, Deputy Head of Centre
• Dr David Stothard, Head of Business Unit, Lasers and Laser Systems
• Dr Henry Bookey, Head of Business Unit, Lasers and Laser Systems 
   

Director Emeritus

• Prof Martin Dawson FRS, Director Emeritus (joint appointment with University of Strathclyde, Distinguished Professor at the Institute of Photonics)

 

Senior Research and Engineering staff

• Dr Gerald Bonner, Principal Researcher
• Dr Adam Polak, Principal Researcher
• Dr Matthew Warden. Principal Researcher

• Barry Ferns, CEng, Principal Electronics Design Engineer
• John Leck, CEng,  Principal Mechanical Design Engineer

 

• Dr Ali Anwar Macheri Abdullah, Senior Researcher
• Dr Stuart Bennett, Senior Software Engineer
• Dr James Feehan, Senior Researcher
• Dr Jan-Simon Hennig, Senior Researcher
• Dr Brynmor Jones. Senior Researcher
• Dr Alexander Lagatsky, Senior Researcher
• Dr John MacArthur, CPhys, Senior Researcher
• Dr Vasili Savitski, Senior Researcher
• Dr Peter Schlosser. Senior Researcher
• Dr Adam Selyem, Senior Researcher
• Dr Roman Spesyvtsev, Senior Researcher

 

Research, Development and Engineering staff

• Dr Salman Ahmed, Researcher
• Dr Sia Andersson, Researcher
• Dr Natalie Bruce, Researcher
• Dr Haochang Chen, Researcher
• Rory Pringle, Mechanical Design Engineer
• Dr Rachel Elvin, Researcher
• Dr Emma Le Francois, Researcher
• Dr Craig Hunter, Researcher
• Dr Imogen Morland, Researcher
• Dr Amy McWilliam, Researcher
• Dr Mateusz Mrozowski, Researcher
• Dr Daniel MacLure, Researcher
• Dr Carolyn O'Dwyer, Researcher
• Dr Yingjie Shao, Researcher
• Dr Nicholas Smith, Researcher
• Dr Jagadeeshwar Tabjula, Researcher
• Dr Jack Thomas, Researcher
• Dr Charikleia Troullinou, Researcher
• Dr Dong Xiao, Researcher

 

Administration and support team

• Dr David Armstrong, Business Development Manager
• Paul McCartney, Business Development Manager
• Ewan Mulhern, IT Systems Manager
• John Gillespie, IT Suport Technician
• Sarah Watters, Finance and Admin Manager
• Angela Ward, Administrator
• Kate Morton, Administrative Assitant

Fraunhofer UK Staff

• Simon Andrews, CEng, CPhys, Executive Director
• Iona Dott, CA, Head of Finance and Administration
• Kelly Niven MCIPD, HR Manager
• Malahat Wittmann, Senior Consultant

Renewables

• Loïs  Legendre, Project Manager (renewable energy)
• Fraser Anderson, Researcher, (renewable energy)

EBiSC

• Dr Rachel Steeg, Head of EBiSC (lifescience)
• Ben Robinson, EBiSC Administrative Assistant,

 

University of Strathclyde staff with significant Fraunhofer relations 

• Prof Alan Kemp, RAEng/Fraunhofer Chair in Advanced Lasers
• Prof Michael Strain, RAEng Senior Research Fellowship 
• Dr Lucia Caspani, Fraunhofer Fellow in Quantum Technologies
• Dr Johannes Herrnsdorf, EPSRC Innovation Fellowship
• Dr Jonathan McKendry, Research Fellow

 

Senior Honorary Fellows

• Prof Hans-Joachim Wagner, Fraunhofer IAF.  Our colleague and friend passed away in February 2025. We are eternally grateful for his enthusuaistic support for Fraunhofer CAP, his love of science and his ambition for international collaboration.
• Prof Malcolm Dunn, University of St Andrews, We note with great sadness that Prof Dunn passed away in March 2021.  He was a gentleman and scientist of the highest regard.  

 

Current Students

• Adnan
• Richard Aguiar
• Alex Blanchard
• Elise Burns
• Ross Cassells
• Steve Cohen
• Tom Dickinson
• Kamalpreet Gill
• Harry Hall
• Jordan Hill
• George Ivens
• James Jackson
• Anjana Garesh
• Charli Hamilton
• Ann-Kathrin Holzmann
• Aisha Kanwal
• Ellis Kelly
• Mustafa Anwer Al Khafaji
• Eleni Margariti
• Sarah McCarthy
• Martin Monaghan
• Marek Michalowski
• Dafydd Owen Newns
• Natale Giovanni Pruiti 
• Sean Quinn
• Ruaridh Smith
• Miles Toon
• Nils Wessling
• Paul White
• Zhongyi Xia
• Hichim Zimi

Summer students and interns

• Craig Millar
• Isabel Scott
• Jannik Willms

Former PhD/EngD Students

• Daniel Kane
• Thomas Ewan Bennett
• Julio Rodriguez
• Guiseppe Cantarella
• Lea Herring
• Ricardo Casula
• Paul Hill
• Craig Hunter
• Adam Polak
• James Morris
• James Brooks
• Jamie Coyle
• Jack Thomas
• Neil Stevenson
• Georgios Arvanitakis
• Lukasz Dziechciarczyk
• Francesca Farrell
• Craig Hunter
• Emma Le Francois
• Jack Thomas
• Lewis Walker
• Eilidh Johnston
• Natalie Bruce

 

Former Summer students and interns

• Sandra Enderle
• Ella Hoffman
• Ina Aidam
• Niklas van Kempen
• Severin Ramstoetter
• Simon Hickman
• Christina Lehmann
• Florian Mueller
• Antonello Matteo
• Xan Lei
• Annika Mueller
• Alba Paniagua Diaz
• Craig Millar
• Richard Aguiar