Organisation, our people

Our key people include:

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Research management team

• Prof Martin Dawson, Head of Centre (joint appointment with University of Strathclyde, Distinguished Professor at the Institute of Photonics)
• Dr John-Mark Hopkins, Deputy Head of Centre
• Dr David Stothard, Head of Department, Lasers and Laser Systems, Theme Leader 
• Dr Henry Bookey, Head of Department, Lasers and Laser Systems, Theme Leader, (Energy and Guided Wave Optics)
• Dr Loyd McKnight Head of Department, Theme Leader (Quantum Technology)

Senior Research and Engineering staff

Dr Alexander Lagatsky, Senior Researcher

Dr Adam Polak, Senior Researcher

Barry Ferns, Senior Electronics Design Engineer

John Leck, CEng, Senior Mechanical Design Engineer

 

• Prof Alan Kemp, RAEng/Fraunhofer Chair in Advanced Lasers
  
  
• Dr Lucia Caspani, Fraunhofer Fellow in Quantum Technologies
   

Research, Development and Engineering staff

• Dr Gerald Bonner, Researcher
• Dr Christopher Carson. Researcher
• Dr Haochang Chen, Researcher
• Ben Fowler, Mechanical Design Engineer
• Dr Jun Guan, Researcher
• Dr Anne-Marie Haughey, CPhys, Researcher
• Craig Hunter, Researcher
• Dr Brynmor Jones. Researcher
• Dr Zhibo Li, Researcher
• Dr Massimiliano Proietti, Researcher
• Dr John MacArthur, Researcher
• Dr Peter Schlosser. Researcher
• Dr Adam Selyem, Researcher
• Dr Vasili Savitski, Researcher
• Dr Mark Scullion. Researcher
• Dr Xiaobin Sun, Researcher
• Dr Jack Thomas, Researcher
• Dr Matt Warden. Researcher

Senior Honorary Fellows

• Prof Hans-Joachim Wagner, Fraunhofer IAF
• Prof Malcolm Dunn, University of St Andrews
   

Administration and support team

• Dr David Armstrong, Business Development Manager
• Paul McCartney, Business Development Manager
• Lisa Flanagan, Centre Administrator
• Ewan Mulhern, IT Systems Manager
• Lisa Shields, Administrative Assistant

Fraunhofer UK Staff

• Simon Andrews, CEng, CPhys, Executive Director
• Iona Dott, CA, Head of Finance and Administration
• Dr Rachel Steeg, Project Manager

 

Current Students

• Lukasz Dziechciarczyk
• Georgios Arvanitakis
• Lewis Walker
• Emma Le Francois
• Miles Toon
• Alex Blanchard
• Daniel Maclure
• Nils Weissling
• Natale Giovanni Pruiti
• Eleni Margarite
• Francesca Farrell
• Nicholas Smith
• Eilidh Johnston
• Natalie Bruce
• Mustafa Anwer Al Khafaji
• Tom Dickinson
• Ellis Kelly
• Paul White
• James Jackson
• Ruaridh Smith
• Paulius Jonasus
• Harry Hall
• Marek Michalowski

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

 

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