London Institute for Advanced Light Studies based at: Imperial College London, UCL, and King's College London

Joined August 2016
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🎂💡Happy birthday, ATTO!💡🎂 It's the 60th birthday of "atto" in the SI system! Our Attosecond Quantum Physics Lab is one of only 2 labs in the UK for experimental attosecond physics based on high harmonic generation. Check out our recent light & atto-activity🧵⬇️ #AttoPhysics
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Loved this demo today by our @KingsNanoOptics students #nanoday2024 #London #light #outreach
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Today we are celebrating nano because it’s 10-9! Did you know that your fingernails grow about one nanometre a second? #nanofact #UKNanoday

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Plasmonics commercialised? Find out more from this meeting report on the 10th London Plasmonics Forum #10LPF24 by @rachelpcwon. @KingsCollegeLon @KingsNanoOptics @imperialcollege @UKCatalysisHub @EPSRC @CPLAS_PG
#Plasmonics continues to show its potential scientific & technological impact as companies exploiting it shine and emerge - my take-home message of the 10th London Plasmonics Forum #10LPF24 @KingsNanoOptics @NaturePhotonics🤗 Plasmonics commercialized? 🤔 rdcu.be/dS5tt
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Come & work with me & our amazing Optical Networks Group! And we have more studentships!! #PhD #phdlife
15 Jul 2024
🌐 Fully-funded 4-year UK home PhD with the Optical Networks Group @ucl Join our world-leading research team under the supervision of Prof @bayvel_p and contribute to pioneering work in optical communications. 👉findaphd.com/phds/project/fu… Apply by 15 August. #PhDOpportunities
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We had a fantastic time @royalsociety #SummerScience Exhibition getting to meet cool researchers and finding out about the science they do! Thank you @FutureBatt @nameprogramme @londonlight_ @QuantumWorkshop 😍 Also, the Florence Nightingale workshop was super interesting!
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An amazing event with @KCL_Physics showcasing their @royalsociety @TranscendInvis project to celebrate @IDLofficial #lightday24 #nanophotonics #nanotechnolgy
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Our @royalsociety project is pairing artists and members of the photonics & nanotechnology group at @KCL_Physics to Transcend the Invisible and bring the unseeable into focus. #nanophotonics
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Join #LondonLight researchers at @KCL_Physics on 17 May to celebrate the International Day of Light @IDLofficial Transcend the Invisible learn how light plays a part in our lives. All are welcome! 👉 IDL-KCL-2024.eventbrite.co.u… #nanomaterials #light #lightday2024
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3 May 2024
Thomas Ebbesen from @unistra will deliver the 10th London Plasmonics Forum keynote 'Plasmons and other Species in the Polariton Tool Box - Past and Present" ECRs can also apply to give a talk or present a poster👇 londonplamsmonicsforum24.eve… #10LPF24 #Plasmonics #metamaterials
8 Apr 2024
Sign up for the 10th London Plasmonics Forum! 📅 12 June 2024 Register ⬇️ cplas.org/london-plasmonics-… Are you a PhD student or an early career researcher? Apply to give a talk or present a poster! #PlasForum24 #plasmonics #metamaterials #plasmocatalysis #10LPF24
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Do you have tickets our #QuantumDay celebration? Join us and @LondonNanotech to discover more about the latest advances in Quantum Engineering, Science and Technology. 📆 Thursday 11 April ⏰ 16:00 - 20:00 Register for your your FREE ticket: ow.ly/bLPt50QWEt6
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23 Feb 2024
CPLAS research associate @by_zaleska explains to to @IMechE how green hydrogen can be produced photo-electrochemically from water using energy from nanomaterials. Read more 👉cplas.org/small-gains-nanote… #plasmocatalysis #nanomaterials #metamaterials #plasmonics #cplas
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Tonight @KCL_Physics will host the Wheatstone Lecture with Nobel laureate Gérard Mourou. The in-person lecture is sold out, but the event will be live-streamed here 👇 youtube.com/watch?v=kvq2zqJv…
Join us at this year's Wheatstone Lecture with Nobel Prize winner Professor Gérard Mourou!🌟 🗓️ 7 Feb 🕔 17.00 – 19.30 📍Strand He will explore ground-breaking concepts for generating attosecond-zeptosecond high-energy pulses and coherent X-ray pulses. loom.ly/hLHVBM4
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.@ProfMarkGreen from @KCL_Physics is delivering a special lecture on quantum dots for students and staff in @KingsNMES following the announcement of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry last week. #quantumdots #nobelprize
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Great to see Dr. James Millen, Reader in Advanced Photonics, delivering an introduction to quantum theory (short course) at @Ri_Science! loom.ly/oU2TGfY The course is sold out but keep an eye out and follow us for future opportunities to learn from our King's academics!
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And light again! 🤩 this time for quantum dots, nanometer electron traps that emit photons!
BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2023 #NobelPrize in Chemistry to Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Alexei I. Ekimov “for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots.”
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Exciting times for #Atto! Congratulations to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier. Read a post from @AttoKings about today’s Nobel Prize announcement. bit.ly/Atto-KCL-Celebrating-… #Nobel2023
BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2023 #NobelPrize in Physics to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier “for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter.”
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Lots of @LondonLight_ researchers will be exhibiting at Nanoday. And keep an eye our for Sasha Rakovich who will be on the panel, talking about the links between nanotechnoly and music! Link to sign up⬇️ bit.ly/LCN-SmallThings

Make sure you sign up for our celebration next week! LCN researchers Andrew Fisher, Sasha Rakovich, and Antonio Lombardo will be discussing nano and its musical connections with @jesswade, hands-on exhibits and the opportunity for some resonance dancing! #UKNanoDay23
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