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Next Career Move
March 2021
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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Review of Biosensing with Whispering Gallery Mode Lasers
February 2021
New cornerstone review article published in Nature. Click here to read the full paper.
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G22 Physics Lab
Novemeber 2020
We officially opened our new G22 lab in physics… including ribbon, new ideas and exceptional researchers!
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Successful PhD viva
September 2020
Congratulations to Serge, who just passed the viva and became the first graduated PhD in the Vollmerlab Exeter!
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Paper accepted by Nature Communications
April 2020
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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Collaboration with A*STAR Singapore
August 2019
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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IONS Conference
July 2019
Katya was presented with an award for the best contributed talk at the IONS 2019 conference. Well done, Katya!
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Another successful PhD viva
February 2021
After a 3 hour examination online via Zoom, Siva successfully defended his thesis. Well done Siva!
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LSI Christmassy Desk Competition
December 2020
Monika is the winner of the 2020 LSI Christmassy desk competition with her inventive optics lab themed xmas tree.
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Optical Whispering Gallery Modes for Biosensing
Septemeber 2020
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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JADE High Performance Computing Resources
July 2020
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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Engage@Turing
April 2020
Katya's research proposal for the Alan Turing Enrichment Scheme was successful! She will be joining the Alan Turing Institute virtually from January 2021.
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Exeter-NTU studentship
September 2019
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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