Dr Bence Bécsy
Postdoc Committee Members and Reps
Meet the Committee and Postdoc Reps.
The Postdoc Development Scheme Committee and Postdoc Reps are here to support postdocs in the school and help create a lively community. We’d love to hear from you! Whether you have ideas for future events, feedback, or would like to speak to a mentor outside your research area, please feel free to reach out to us.
- Email: b.bence@bham.ac.uk
Dr Gregorio Carullo
School of Physics and Astronomy
- Email: g.carullo@bham.ac.uk
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Soumyodeep Dey
- Postdoc Rep for the School of Physics and Astronomy
Soumyodeep is a research fellow at the UK Quantum Technology Research Hub in Sensing, Imaging and Timing (QuSIT), working on the laser system development for new gradiometer sensor. Soumyodeep has over eight years of experience in lasers and optical physics, including continuous and pulsed laser systems and ultracold atomic physics. His current research interest involves the efficient laser system design for the new QuSIT gradiometer sensor, designed for civil engineering and navigation applications.
Email: s.dey.1@bham.ac.uk
Dr Suhail Dhawan
125th Anniversary Fellow
Dr Suhail Dhawan is an Assistant Professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy, a 125th Anniversary Fellow at University of Birmingham, and PI of UKRI/ERC starting grant project NGCOSMO. His research interests are in measuring the expansion rate of the universe using bright explosions (eg Type Ia supernovae in the night sky). Suhail uses time-domain surveys and synergies across different ...
- Email: s.dhawan@bham.ac.uk
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Dimple
- Postdoc Rep for the School of Physics and Astronomy
Dimple is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow specialising in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), the powerful cosmic explosions that occur across the universe. She focuses on understanding what types of stars or compact systems produce these events, using a data-driven approach that applies advanced machine-learning techniques to their earliest flashes of light.
Email: d.dimple@bham.ac.uk
Dr Thomas Hird
Thomas Hird is an experimental physicist working at the intersection of Quantum Optics, Atomic Physics and Quantum Technologies. His research spans atom-light interactions for quantum communication/computation as well as to detect gravitational waves and investigate fundamental particle physics.
- Email: t.m.hird@bham.ac.uk
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Maitreyi Jayaseelan
- Postdoc Rep for the School of Physics and Astronomy
Maitreyi Jayaseelan is a Research Associate in the Cold Atoms group. Her interests are in experimental atomic, molecular and optical physics. She has experience with a variety of systems, from Bose—Einstein condensates and ultracold polar molecules, to warm vapours with Rydberg atoms. At Birmingham she works on developing atomic magnetometers using room-temperature alkali and buffer gas cells for metrological applications and is currently looking at some very interesting non-Hermitian physics in these surprisingly rich systems.
Email: m.jayaseelan@bham.ac.uk
Dr Katja Klobas
Dr Katja Klobas is an Assistant Professor of Theoretical Physics. Her research work is focused on quantum many-body dynamics.
Email: k.klobas@bham.ac.uk
Dr Patrick Ryan Knights
- Email: p.r.knights@bham.ac.uk
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Lachlan Milligan
- Postdoc Rep for the School of Physics and Astronomy
Lachlan is a postdoctoral research fellow working in the particle physics group on dark matter direct detection. Dark matter makes up ~85% of the universe, and whilst its existence has been inferred from astrophysical and cosmological studies, its fundamental particle nature is unknown. The field of direct detection aims to elucidate this nature by measuring dark matter's interaction with highly sensitive particle detectors. Lachlan works on one such detector, the DarkSPHERE detector, which will explore the relatively unprobed region of 'light' dark matter.
Email: l.j.milligan@bham.ac.uk
Dr Anjali A.A. Piette
- Email: a.a.a.piette@bham.ac.uk
Dr Tom Siday
- Email: t.siday@bham.ac.uk
Amalie Stokholm
ECDN Rep for the School of Physics and Astronomy
Amalie is a postdoctoral research fellow in Astronomy whose work explores the structure of stars in the Milky Way to uncover clues about our Galaxy’s turbulent past. She uncovers new insights by applying advanced Bayesian statistical methods to high-quality data on stellar motions, compositions, and ages, essentially treating the stars as time capsules that can reveal the conditions that shaped the Galaxy over cosmic time.
Email: a.l.stokholm@bham.ac.uk
Daniel Thompson
Postdoc Rep for the School of Physics and Astronomy
Dan is a postdoctoral research fellow working in the experimental particle physics group on LHCb, one of the LHC experiments at CERN. His work focuses on the future upgrade to LHCb's inner detector, the "Vertex Locator", which will be the first "4D" detector utilised in particle physics with a novel Silicon Photonics readout system being developed at Birmingham.
Email: d.j.d.thompson@bham.ac.uk
Hannah Turner
Postdoc Rep for the School of Physics and Astronomy
Hannah is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Supernova Cosmology and Galaxy Dynamics. Her work focuses on using supernovae to probe the expansion rate of the Universe, applying gravitational lensing as a tool to study mass distributions, and using kinematic and dynamical models to better understand the structure and evolution of galaxies.
Email: h.c.turner@bham.ac.uk
Martin Völkl
Assistant Professor
School of Physics and Astronomy
Dr Martin Völkl is an Assistant Professor at the University of Birmingham. He investigates the properties of the strong interaction in ultra relativistic heavy-ion collisions at the LHC.
Email: m.a.volkl@bham.ac.uk
Nur Ünal
Proleptic Assistant Professor, Royal Society University Research Fellow
School of Physics and Astronomy
Nur is an assistant professor and Royal Society University Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham. Previously, she held Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Royal Society Newton Fellowships at the University of Cambridge, postdoc positions at the Max-Planck Institute PKS in Germany and has been an exchange student at Cornell University during her PhD obtained from the Bilkent University. Her work revolves around condense matter systems with a specific focus on quantum simulations with ultracold quantum gases, investigating various novel phenomena including topological systems, out-of-equilibrium dynamics, Floquet systems, superconductivity, localisation, synthetic gauge fields, fractional quantum Hall and non-Abelian physics.
Email: f.unal@bham.ac.uk