What happened at the School today? S2 Madras students visted for a Christmas lecture and demos

A short digital course in astronomy has been developed by our academic staff member, Dr Weijmans. This course explores the Solar System, stars, galaxies and cosmology, and alongside the scientific view on astronomy, also offers historical and cultural insights. www.st-andrews.ac.uk/study/online...

Thank you to everyone for helping the admin team raising funds and toy donations for Families First St Andrews Toy appeal. familiesfirststandrews.org.uk

Message from GOTSUPPORT to our students during Exam season

Many congratulations to our Graduates.

* Christmas Giving Tree * Unwrapped gifts no later than 10th Dec pls. * Wear Something Festive on Friday 28 November * Cash donations to collection pots in Staff Common Room, School Office and Janitor’s desk. Supporting Families First Christmas Appeal 2025. familiesfirststandrews.org.uk

Many congratulations to Elena for passing her viva on her thesis titled 'DEER Measurements of Calmodulin: Novel Spin Labels and Structural Insights.'

Weekly Fashion Friday: Bring a Can. The donations to St Candrews are coming in thick and fast towards this week's theme of Fashion Friday (Food theme clothes). Arranged by our School President, Ellie.

If you missed Dr Graham Bruce's talk on their toxic project, you can get it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=20I6...

The next instalment in the Saints Talk series will be from our very own Dr Graham Bruce. He's will talk about their toxic project. For details on how to register, please click on the link below. @grahamdbruce.bsky.social www.st-andrews.ac.uk/develop-2/sa...

IOP Awards 2025 Professor Peter B. Littlewood, Professor and Chair of Physics at the University of Chicago and Visiting Professor at St Andrews, was awarded the Richard Glazebrook Medal.

IOP Awards 2025. Congratulations to Prof Ifor Samuel and technician Martin McLaren for recieving IOP Awards. Prof Ifor Sameuwl received the Thomas Young Prize. Mr. Martin McLaren received the IOP Technician Award. news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/four...

We would like to congratulate Martin McLaren on receiving the IOP Technician Award. He received this award for his work as technical manager, overseeing operations of the Centre for Designer Quantum Materials since its inception. Congratulations Martin! www.iop.org/about/awards...

The Schools of Chemistry and Physics and Astronomy held an Outreach training day for our 1st Physics and Astronomy, Chemistry, Computer Science and Earth and Environmental Sciences PhD students led by the team of staff Dr Danica Pinto, Dr Neil Keddie, Dr Lethy Jagadamma and Dr Dimali Vithanage.

Several fanstatic seminars at the Wilson Sibbett Memorial Symposium. We welcomed 100 old friends and colleagues with participants travelling from as far as France, Germany and the US to share their memories, and reflect on Wilson‘s incredible scientific legacy.

We are pleased to hear the relaunch of the SU2P, Scottish Universities Partnership in Photonics.

Many congratulations to Cailean Wilkinson for passing his viva on thesis titled: Quantum-enhanced protocols: secure quantum state sharing and noisy field estimation

Memorial Symposium for Prof. Wilson Sibbett CBE FRS FRSE, Wednesday 22nd October 2025 For more information: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/physics-astr... If you would like to attend, please register via the link below: forms.office.com/e/Sb1VbnAyKZ

The year I arrive @physastrostand.bsky.social rises to #1 in the UK for Physics in the Times & Sunday Times University League table. (and we all know that correlation *does* imply causation, right?!) www.thetimes.com/uk-universit...

We welcome applications for consideration for this year's Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship scheme. Internal deadline is 3rd Nov. Please email [email protected] for the UstA Leverhulme ECRF application form. Call details are on: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/early-career...

The little Twin Dome is now on a road trip back to the big Twin Dome in St Andrews. Starting at the shore in Cellardyke

Our recent work showing how a simple substrate pre-sputtering can facilitate layer-by-layer film growth of van der Waals materials published as an Editor's Pick in APL Materials: doi.org/10.1063/5.02...

Congratulations to the authors of the paper “OLED illuminated metasurfaces for holographic image projection” which has just been published with Light: Science & Applications. DOI: doi.org/10.1038/s413...

Today is international day in the school of Physics and Astronomy. It is a great opportunity to celebrate the diversity in the OSC that helps make our research world class.

Many congratulations to Dan on successfully defending his PhD thesis: using LEED-IV to track minute structural distortions at ruthenate surfaces, and understanding their implications on electronic structure. Dan worked jointly with us, @wahlgroup.bsky.social and @diamondlightsource.bsky.social

New #research from @distantworlds.space with @nasawebb.extwitter.link @stsci.edu @umich.edu @cornellupress.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social & MIT identifies signs of atmosphere on TRAPPIST 1e, an Earth-sized #exoplanet located 40 light years away Read more👇 ow.ly/SFOT50WTaHI #EverToExcel

Finally, it's important to highlight that none of this would have been possible without the leadership of Nikole Lewis, who is the PI of this initial TRAPPIST-1e reconnaissance program. I was fortunate enough to be a postdoc at Cornell with Nikole, and she is a truly *fantastic* advisor and mentor!

We have follow-up observations of TRAPPIST-1e ongoing (led by Néstor Espinoza and Natalie Allen), which will provide 15 (!) more transits of TRAPPIST-1e. So if TRAPPIST-1e does indeed have an atmosphere, we will soon have the data to settle the enigma of this world.

We observed the habitable zone planet TRAPPIST-1e with JWST to search for an atmosphere. You've seen the headlines, now let's dive into the science! 🧪 THREAD (1/N) #Exoplanets 🔭

This week we are pleased to welcome Yamini Sharma to the group. She is visiting us from the IPCMS in Strasbourg. During her one month stay she will be researching the photophysics of TADF materials.

Our School of Physics & Astronomy hosted the @univofstandrews first Advanced Materials industry day, bringing together academics and researchers with businesses, funders & government. Check out our video to find out more... 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2NM... #EverToExcel

Welcome to Ferran Aliagas Puigdomènech, who joins us from Universiteit van Amsterdam as a new PhD student in the group, working jointly with us and @wahlgroup.bsky.social

#ThatPublishedFeeling 🥳 What does it feel like to see your research published? IOP Publishing authors share powerful and meaningful stories behind publication— From returning to science after decades to shaping their hometowns’ futures. 👉 Explore their stories: ioppublishing.org/that-publish...

A windy Pier Walk to mark the start of Martinmas Semester. 💨 Welcome back to our returning students and hello to all our new ones - enjoy Orientation Week! #EverToExcel

‪ New paper: We combine computation and synthesis to design and discover intercalated layered hybrid perovskites with tunable structures and optoelectronic properties. With Julia Payne | Grateful to @leverhulme.ac.uk for funding. @physastrostand.bsky.social #2DPerovskites

Congratulations to James and Liam who graduated with their PhD degrees.

New tool to identify ‘toxic’ green books Developed by @physastrostand.bsky.social and the University of St Andrews Libraries and Museum, the new device is transforming how cultural heritage institutions identify toxic pigments in historic books. Read more 👇 ow.ly/WAil50Wflrf #EverToExcel

Congratulations to Dr John Danial from @physastrostand.bsky.social who has been awarded a £1.6 million Career Development Award from the Medical Research Council @ukri.org for his #dementia research. Read more 👇 ow.ly/AirC50WcSGt #EverToExcel

Congratulations to my Master’s project students Jacob, Sam, and Walter on graduating today. Congratulations also to all of our @physastrostand.bsky.social graduates!

Many congratulations to our graduated students. What a glorious day it was for graduation!

I've been blown away by how welcoming and supportive the academics and staff at @physastrostand.bsky.social have been during my first week at St Andrews. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Looks like I'll be teaching an astronomy lab in September, can't wait to introduce the undergraduates to exoplanet observations! 🔭

Don't miss out! The Toxic books exhibit is back on at Warlaw Museum till the 21st July due to popular demand. researchstudio.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2024-poisono...

Looking back to detail of “in the event of always falling back down again”. Installation at the School of Physics and Astronomy. Still looking good.

Internal selection for the STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellowships is now open. Internal deadline is 30th June 17:00. Interested candidates should go to the website and follow the instructions. astronomy.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/stfc-ernest-...

We are taking applications for the URF call (royalsociety.org/grants/unive...). Candidates should submit their application documents (draft for the 4 page proposal (royalsociety.org/-/media/gran...) and an up to date CV) by 1 July to [email protected]. Candidates will be informed by 4th July.

Shoutout to our Angstrom evaporator users and cleanroom techs for teaming up on a quick, thorough glove box clean! Awesome work — efficient, collaborative, and spotless!

You can watch Prof Peter Wahl's inaugural lecture titled 'Delving into the Foundations of Future Technologies, one atom at a time.' www.youtube.com/watch?v=U87-...

What's happening in the building now? Final year project poster session