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Our LUPO team members Deepjyoti Satpathy and Nikoleta Kotsina will be at Optica Laser Congress 2026, High-Intensity Lasers and High-Field Phenomena (HILAS), on 14-15 October, in Vilnius, Lithuania. Come along to see their presentations.
Next week, our LUPO team member Mohammed Sabbah will be at Europhoton 2026, on Wednesday, 23 September, in Arcachon, France. Come along to see his presentation. You can also check Mohammed’s recent work here.
On Wednesday, 9 September 2026, we held the EPS PGR Day, an event to showcase the postgraduate research (PGR) of the School of Engineering and Physical Sciences (EPS). We are glad to see our LUPO member, Deepjyoti Satpathy, win the 2nd Year Prize in recognition of his performance during the postgraduate study.
LUPO members will give invited talks at two upcoming conferences:
Nikoleta will speak at the Optica Advanced Photonics Congress 2026 in Long Beach, California, USA, on 27 July 2026, introducing our new XSOL beamline for terawatt-scale, self-compressed optical attosecond pulses and gigawatt-level, tunable vacuum- to deep-ultraviolet radiation.
Welcome to our new postdoc Matthieu Guer!
Matthieu joins us from CEA Saclay in Paris, where he completed his PhD under the supervision of Thierry Ruchon and Romain Géneaux. He will be part of the team on the ERC Starting Grant project FASTER led by Christian Brahms.
We are delighted to share a new publication Nature Communications: Decoupling structural molecular dynamics from excited state lifetimes using few-femtosecond ultraviolet resonant dispersive waves. In this collaborative work with the group of Prof Dave Townsend, we exploit the few-femtosecond pulse duration of deep ultraviolet pulses generated via resonant dispersive wave emission to observe previously invisible dynamical processes in the morpholine molecule.
Welcome to our new postdoc Connor Clarke!
Connor graduated with a first-class MSci Chemistry and Mathematics degree at Durham University in 2020. He continued at Durham to obtain a PhD in Chemistry (2024), supervised by Prof. Jan Verlet. Connor’s doctoral studies largely focused on probing microsolvated nucleobase anions with frequency-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy. In 2025, he joined the LUPO group to construct a new ultrafast beamline with spectroscopic applications as part of the ERC Starting Grant project FASTER led by Christian Brahms.
