About the group
From LAGWiki
The central theme of our research activities lies in the development of modern laser spectroscopic methods to visualise and quantify dynamic chemical processes in applications ranging from environmental and process sensing to biomedical applications. We have developed tools that allow the fast probing of exothermic chemistry in reactive flows and the research is used, for example, in the design of next generation, low emission aero-engines. On a very different scale we have succeeded in visualising chemical reactions inside single living cells; optical tools that help in the design and testing of novel drugs. You'll find more information on our research under Research. If you would like to get a general overview on the types of techniques we use, and what they allow us to do, take a look at overview on fluorescence.
Our work is strongly collaborative in nature and we work with groups from all over the world including the Max Planck Research Group for Optics and Photonics in Germany, Sandia National Labs in US, the CNRS in France, the Universities of Bielefeld, Germany, Lund, Sweden, and Washington, US. In Cambridge we have active collaborations with the The Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK, Gurdon Institute of Cancer & Developmental Biology, the Hutchison MRC Institute, the departments of Genetics, Engineering, Physics and Physiology Development and Neuroscience.
The group runs two large scale research network activities in Cambridge, the CamBridgeSens initiative, and activities to bridge photonics research with the life sciences, as part of which we organised the International Theodor Foerster Lecture Series.
