Chris Finlayson
Aberystwyth University
Welsh Crucible 2013
Chris graduated with a degree in Physics from the University of Birmingham in 1998. His PhD research at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge explored aspects of the synthesis, characterisation and applications of colloidal semiconductor nanoparticles. He then moved to the University of Southampton, where as a postdoctoral fellow, he researched in the areas of photonic crystals and optical fibre based metamaterials. In 2007, he was awarded a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship, again working at the Cavendish Laboratory, in the interdisciplinary area of molecular optoelectronics. Recently, Chris has also developed an interest in soft nanophotonics and polymeric photonic materials. He moved to Aberystwyth in April 2011, to take up his appointment as Lecturer in the Department of Physics.