Jul 22: Jochen was elected as a Fellow of The Institute of Physics (FInstP)

May 22: Chris successfully defends his PhD thesis – well done, Dr Ahart!

May 22: Jan wins a prize for his poster entitled “Temperature Dependence of Charge Mobility in Rubrene from Fragment Orbital-Based Surface Hopping” at the Thomas Young Centre student day! Well done, Jan.

Apr 22: Paper accepted in Nature Communication! Sam and Wei-Tao show how quantum delocalization boosts exciton transport in molecular organic semiconductors, thanks also to Lorenzo, Daniele and Antoine for your critical input! https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-30308-5

Mar 22: Our latest paper in the Journal of the American Chemical Society provides new insight into charge transport in hematite – well done Chris!

Mar 22: Big welcome to Yucheng Xu who is visiting from Cambridge. Exciting to have an experimentalist among us!

Mar 22: Upcoming Research Seminar in the beautiful English country side: https://blumberger.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/program-Chicheley-.pdf

Feb 22: Our take on charge transport in organics – the non-adiabatic dynamics perspective: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.accounts.1c00675   

Nov 21: Samuele wins the Marshall Stoneham Prize for his PhD thesis! Well deserved, Samuele!

Nov 21: Big welcome to Nora Gildemeister who joins our group as a guest from the University of Cologne for a couple of months.

Oct 21: Big welcome to Ke Wang who joins our group for an undergraduate project within his Physics degree course.

Sep 21: Matt’s paper on the impact of crystallinity on charge carrier transport is out in Advanced Materials – quantum delocalization even in disordered semiconductors, FOB-SH at its best – well done all!

Sep 21: Our paper on Nanosecond Electron Transfer in Multi-heme Proteins is published – a true tour de force with electrochemistry and spectroscopy collaborators Julea Butt and Steve Meech – well done Xiaojing!

Sep 21: We are slowly returning to UCL – good to see faces, masked but real!

Jul 21: We have another Doctor this year: Congratulations, Matt!

Jun 21: Our IWOM workshop pulls in the crowds – 200 attendees!