Dr Jack Dalton

Dr Jack Dalton

School of Chemistry
FASTCHEM Facility Manager

Contact details

Address
Molecular Sciences Building
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Jack Dalton received his BSc, MSci by Research and PhD (with Vas Stavros) from the University of Warwick. Following his PhD, he was a research fellow at University of Birmingham. Jack now manages FASTCHEM, University of Birmingham’s ultrafast laser facility.

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Qualifications

  • PhD in Analytical Science, University of Warwick, 2025
  • MSc by Research in Chemistry, University of Warwick, 2021
  • BSc in Chemistry, University of Warwick, 2020

Biography

Jack graduated from the University of Warwick with a BSc degree in chemistry in 2020. He then completed a MSc by Research with Professor Vasilios Stavros at the University of Warwick on “Investigating the Ultrafast Photodynamics of Nature Inspired Chromophores”. Jack’s research in ultrafast spectroscopy continued into his PhD with Vas at the University of Warwick on “Employing Ultrafast Laser Spectroscopy Techniques to Identify and Design Nature-Inspired Chromophores for Photoprotection Applications”.

Jack joined the School of Chemistry at University of Birmingham in 2025, conducting a short post-doctoral research fellowship to establish a new ultrafast laser lab with Professor Stavros. Following the successful acquisition of funding for a laser facility through the EPSRC, Jack now manages FASTCHEM, University of Birmingham’s ultrafast laser facility.

Research

Jack’s research has focused on using ultrafast pump-probe laser spectroscopy to study nature-inspired UV chromophores for the application of photoprotection and molecular heaters. Specifically, gas-phase time-resolved velocity map imaging to study the light-matter interactions of isolated molecules, and transient electronic absorption spectroscopy to study these systems in the solution phase and on surfaces. He now applies these techniques, through FASTCHEM, to all areas of photophysics and photochemistry.