Chris is an Associate Professor and Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow at Heriot-Watt University.
Chris received his M.Sci degree in Physics from Imperial College London in 2014. After finishing his PhD with Prof Jon Marangos at Imperial in 2018, Chris joined LUPO as a postdoctoral research associate. He spent the next three years on the HISOL project, developing and extending soliton-based light-source technology. He then joined the u-Care project and built a first-generation compact soliton-based DUV laser source for biomedical applications. In 2022, Chris was awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowship to develop high-performance vacuum ultraviolet laser sources for science, industry and healthcare. In 2024 he won a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant to support the FASTER project. He was promoted to Assistant Professor in 2023 and to Associate Professor in 2024.
Chris is interested in ultrafast nonlinear optics for the creation of new kinds of light sources and in the application of these new sources to challenging problems in science and technology. His focus is on ultrafast spectroscopy and imaging as well as technological and industrial applications of far-UV light. He leads several international collaborations to exploit soliton-based light sources for ultrafast science, and is the lead developer of Luna.jl, our open-source numerical simulation code.
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PhD in Physics, 2018
Imperial College London
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M.Sci in Physics, 2014
Imperial College London