During the last few years, my research activities have been very varied. Our `main business’ has had a firm anchor in experimental condensed matter physics (topological matter, manybody interactions, spin phenomena, etc), but we have also explored a range of other topics (mostly resulting from student projects) — such as making organic semiconductors from common plant matter (or low cost photovoltaics), understanding chemistry relevant to chemotherapy, developing instrumentation and experimental approaches; for example, for understanding and improving COVID testing.
In this talk, I will introduce our main experimental methods (mostly based on various variants of photoelectron spectroscopy), and illustrate these methods using recent results from our broad range of ongoing projects.
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Prof. Justin Wells studied Physics at Prifysgol Cymru; University of Wales, Aberystwyth. His Masters thesis “Studies of the upper polar atmosphere” was carried out on exchange to UNIS, Svalbard. After working for 2 years as a research assistant at Trinity College, Dublin, Justin moved to Aarhus to carry out his Ph.D. at the synchrotron facility ASTRID. Wells had 3 PostDoc positions, at Aarhus, NTNU and Lund University/MAXlab. Since 2013 he established his own research group at NTNU, moving to UiO in 2021.
This talk is in-person only.