Our research is concerned with the application of laser-based techniques in chemistry and materials science. We study the mechanisms of chemical and photochemical reactions, the spectroscopy and structure of reactive intermediates, atmospheric chemistry, analytical applications of laser spectroscopy, optical properties of aerosol particles, and laser ablation for thin-film deposition. Our work includes processes that occur in the gas phase, in liquids and at the surfaces of materials.
The group is led by Prof Andrew Orr-Ewing FRS, Dr Tom Oliver, and Prof Mike Ashfold FRS, and includes research fellows, postgraduate students and undergraduate students of many nationalities.
Congratulations to former PhD student and post-doc Dr Camilla Gajo for being awarded the 2026 PhD thesis prize by the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Spectroscopy and Dynamics Group. Camilla was advised by Tom Oliver, and her Read More
Welcome to Saira Ghani who joins the Orr-Ewing group and Dr Beatrice Collins’s group as a co-supervised PhD student. Saira recently completed the first phase of her postgraduate training in the EPSRC-funded Technology Enhanced Chemical Read More
Welcome to Dr. Sanjoy Patra, who joins the Oliver research group as a postdoctoral research fellow working on the EPSRC-NSF funded Quantum Information Science grant. Sanjoy completed his MSc-PhD at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Read More
We welcome applications to join our group in the School of Chemistry, which provides an outstanding environment for research in an internationally renowned University.
