What's happening in the School today? It's the Graduation lunch.

CELEBRATION FOR DR BRUCE SINCLAIR After four decades of teaching, many of you will know and have been inspired by Dr Bruce Sinclair. To mark Bruce's achievement, a celebration will take place from 10.00am to 6.30pm on Friday 26 June 2026. Register - ow.ly/N2MR50Z6JJl

The UPDATES cafe has installed some new vending machines at the School.

Congratulations to Sahyadri Krishna for passing his viva on his thesis titled 'The host galaxies of luminous quasars: a spectrum decomposition view.'

Ryan, Zoe and Cameron, from our Planetarium team had recently been at the Guardbridge Primary School and Strathkinness Primary School.

The STFC ERF call is now open. www.ukri.org/opportunity/.... Internal deadline is 23rd June 2026. You can find more information on how to submit at our website, astronomy.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/stfc-ernest-....

St Andrews is ranked as the top university in Scotland and fourth in the UK in the 2027 Complete University Guide. Our School of Mathematics & Statistics is top in UK, with a further 10 subjects in the top three. 👏 Read more 👇 https://ow.ly/SxmT50Z7b0Y #EverToExcel

Many congratulations to Zoe Harvey for passing her viva on her thesis titled 'The Cool Circumgalactic Medium of Massive Galaxies.'

Dr Henry Legg was on the Radio 4 Today programme this morning to talk about problems with Microsoft Quantum’s latest claims. You can listen to it here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/..., at point 1:20:55.

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News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.

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Congratulations to Harry Mullineauxsanders who passed his viva on his thesis titled 'A Theoretical Study of Static, Time-Periodic and Quasi-Periodic Mixed Dimensional Topological Phases of Matter'

What is happening at the School today? PGR assessment

Congratulations to Prof. Kishan Dholakia who has been elected as a Fellow of Australian Academy science.org.au/news-events/...

We are advertising for Lecturer in Advanced/ Photonic Materials. Please see for further details www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Physics & Astronomy Photography Competition 2026 The aim of this competition was to celebrate creativity, diverse perspectives, and our shared interest in PandA Congratulations to the winner Aravind Binukumar with Structures of Perception: The Art of Pareidolia (1st image below) and the runner ups

Congrats to @ritatojeiro.bsky.social & colleagues from @physastrostand.bsky.social on their huge collab with >70 institutions on a 3D universe map exploring dark energy 🌃🔭 tinyurl.com/3dunimap 🎉 Check out the #OpenResearch: data.desi.lbl.gov/doc/releases/ #DESI #DarkEnergy @desisurvey.bsky.social

Royal Society URF in Physics and Astronomy @ St Andrews? Send outline application by 1st July 2026. www.st-andrews.ac.uk/physics-astr... to learn about our research focus and our outstanding experimental facilities, and contact physres@st-andrews.ac.uk for details of the required documents.

🎉Congratulations to Mina Riahi and Ifor Samuel for their recent #OpenAccess work on antibiotic alternatives using #OLED technology💡🧫 Check out their publication below! 💥⬇️ @uniofstandrews.bsky.social @physastrostand.bsky.social #OpenResearch

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Congratulations to the authors of "OLED-based photodynamic therapy treats bacterial infection in a preclinical ex vivo burn wound model", just accepted to Oxford's Burns and Trauma journal. This work was done in collaboration with KU Leuven in Belgium. DOI: doi.org/10.1093/burn...

Many congratulations to: Dr Lucy Hadfield awarded for "Outstanding Academic Mentorship". Holly Seo awarded for "Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant or Demonstrator (Science/Medicine)". Dr Bruce Sinclair awarded for "University's 1413 teaching prizes".

Our first year PhD students, Daniel and Meg, did their first planetarium show at St Mary's RC primary school in Dundee for their Careers day.

Congratulations to Prof Phil King on being elected RSE fellowship. rse.org.uk/fellowship/f...

Professor Phil King

Phil King is an experimental condensed matter physicist at the University of St Andrews. His research interests focus on investigating the electronic properties at surfaces, interfaces, and in atomic-...

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Congratulations to the authors of "A trade‐off between efficiency and stability in a class of sky‐blue organic light‐emitting diodes" just published in FlexMat. This work was done in collaboration with @ezc-group.bsky.social, and Fluxim AG in Switzerland. DOI: doi.org/10.1002%2Ffl...

A trade‐off between efficiency and stability in a class of sky‐blue organic light‐emitting diodes

OLED efficiency and stability are correlated with device structure using combined experimental and simulation approach. Efficient, but less stable devices suffer mainly from exciton-exciton annihilat...

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What's happening in the School right now? The Undergraduate project poster session.

Last week some members of the group attended the SU2P symposium in Glasgow. Ifor, Olga and Masato can be seen attending the conference dinner. While in Glasgow, they took the opportunity to visit Dr. Gordon Hedley’s (group alumni) lab.

Congratultions to Michael for passing his viva on his thesis titled 'Understanding the Early Stages of Massive Star Formation with ALMA: 1.3 mm Continuum Observations of Young Stellar Protoclusters.'

The University of St Andrews is welcoming early career researchers to register interest for its Light-Matter Interactions summer school from Sunday 7th – Wednesday 10th of June 2026 in St Andrews: quantum-tech-alliance.co.uk/2026/02/12/l...

Last week the group had the pleasure of welcoming Professor Ji-Seon Kim from University of Oxford. She presented the colloquium titled Fascinating Molecular Nature of Organic Semiconductors, where she delved into their different molecular properties and how these can be modified.

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Strong international research collaboration has produced a major new study on blue carbon—and the message is clear: we’re underusing it. Only ~20% of countries include it in reporting, yet it could offset up to 3% of emissions. Read more: https://ow.ly/WEQS50YxXS2 #EverToExcel

The School will be holding a celebration of 40 years of Dr Bruce Sinclair's employment on Friday 26th June. The event is planned to run from 10am-6:30pm, and will involve a number of people speaking describing different aspects of his career. To register to attend: forms.office.com/e/iMeNnN70XM

Our very own Prof Peter Wahl will be giving a talk at the Making Wave Lecture Series. Click the link to register www.st-andrews.ac.uk/development/...