Frank presented the Quantum Life Science Moonshot. What are the major global challenges that will drive the future of research and innovation for the next few decades? Where is the UK best placed to lead groundbreaking innovation that will have truly significant impact? UKRI is looking to identify bold, ambitious, and transformative ideas for moonshots across the research and innovation landscape.

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Katya recently presented her work on decoding biosensor signals using supercomputers at the ISC 2023 conference in Hamburg. She discussed parallelization strategies in computational chemistry code and how these simulations can be helpful in the life sciences.

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A paper written by members of the Vollmerlab, titled Review of biosensing with whispering-gallery mode lasers, made it onto the 2022 list of outstanding papers in the Nature Light: Science and Applications journal.

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Matt received an award at the SWBio Annual Student Conference for his research poster on probing conformational thermodynamics of enzyme turnover by optoplasmonics. Congratulations, Matt!

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Deshui will lead his own research group at the NTSC – National Time Service Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences! Congratulations to our theory grandmaster on this wonderful position!

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Kalani received an award for the best research poster at the WOMA 2022 conference! Congratulations, Kalani!

An outstanding review paper with Deshui from the Vollmerlab as leading author was published on 09 Dec 2021. Read the paper here. 

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Siva’s work is featured on the front cover of ACS journal!

Read the full article here. 

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Vollmerlab PhD student, Callum Jones, recently won the 2nd prize for his presentation at the university postgraduate research conference. Congratulations, Callum!

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After a 3 hour examination online via Zoom, Siva successfully defended his thesis. Well done Siva!

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Monika is the winner of the 2020 LSI Christmassy desk competition with her inventive optics lab themed xmas tree.

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New book written by Frank Vollmer and Deshui Yu, explaining the fundamentals of optical whispering gallery modes. It is suitable for an interdisciplinary readership comprised of physicists, bioengineers and medical professionals. 

Click here to purchase a copy!​​

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Our research group has been granted access to JADE (a Tier 2 supercomputer) for the new BooLeaN project, which aims to understand the Biophysics of Life at the Nanoscale using AI computer vision techniques. 

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Katya will be joining the Alan Turing Institute virtually from January 2021, following a successful research proposal for the Alan Turing Enrichment Scheme.

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NTU and Exeter are working in partnership to deliver six split-site Biomedical PhD studentships. Aneeth has started his studentship in Exeter now and will move to Singapore soon.

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Vollmerlab received a BBSRC Pioneer Award titled Optical single-molecule dynamometer that measures work and force of active enzymes.

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Frank Vollmer recently received a prestigious award from the Institute of Physics for his distinguished contributions to biosensing with optical microcavities. The single-molecule technique enables groundbreaking advances in how we use light to study biomolecules and their biochemical reactions. 

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Katya and her team from the A*STAR scholars network received a merit prize and an award for the best presentation for their competitive performance in the annual APAC HPC-AI Competition, organized by the HPC-AI advisory council and sponsored by NSCC and NCI Australia.

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Samir won the award for best poster at the CES 2022 conference. CES (Cavity Enhanced Spectroscopy) is a biennial international meeting that brings together the community of physicists, chemists, atmospheric scientists, and engineers who work in the broad area of cavity enhanced spectroscopy and its many applications. Congratulations, Samir!

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A recently published review paper, with Nikita as first author, was formally recognized as one of the top downloaded papers of Light: Science & Applications. 

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Our Woma co defence had a record turnout of 263 online attendees around the world. Next Woma 2024 will be held in New Zealand. See you there!

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This month we had a highly successful Physics of Life workshop, which brought together early career researchers to discuss everything molecular mechanics!

Image credit: Mathis Riehle. 

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Jolly is making a quantum jump after more than 5 years in the Vollmerlab! Congratulations Prof Xavier for the career progression to the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

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PhD alumna from the Vollmerlab will become a Max Planck Research Group Leader at the MPI in Frankfurt.

Congratulations Eugene Kim!

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New cornerstone review article published in Nature. Click here to read the full paper.

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We officially opened our new G22 lab in physics… including ribbon, new ideas and exceptional researchers!

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Congratulations to Serge, who just passed the viva and became the first graduated PhD in the Vollmerlab Exeter!

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Serge's paper on reversible disulphide interactions was recently published in Nature communications. What  a great achievement! Click here to read the full paper. 

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Katya has recently moved to Singapore as part of a collaboration with the A*STAR Institute of High Performance Computing. Click below to find out more about her postgraduate life in Singapore!

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Katya was presented with an award for the best contributed talk at the IONS 2019 conference. Well done, Katya!

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