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Professor David McGloin

Professor David McGloin
Professor David McGloin
Professor David McGloin

Personal Chair, Head of School

Accepting PhDs

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G05E Meston Building
Old Aberdeen Campus
Meston Walk
AB24 3UE

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Biography

I joined the University of Aberdeen in September 2022 as the Head of School of Natural and Computing Sciences. I am a physicist by training having studied Laser Physics and Optoelectronics at St. Andrews, followed by a PhD in Atomic and Laser Physics, also at St. Andrews. I then briefly left academia to join the UK Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (dstl) working on optical imaging technologies.

I returned to St. Andrews in 2002 as a postdoctoral research fellow working on cold atom physics before being awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship in 2003 to work on holographic optical trapping and beam shaping. 

In 2007 I joined the University of Dundee as a Lecturer, and held a variety of roles, including Head of Physics and Associate Dean Research in the School of Science and Engineering.

In 2018 I moved to Australia to take up a Chair and act as the Director, Research Programs in the Faculty of Engineering and IT at the University of Technology Sydney.

My research work focusses on applications of optics in areas such as optical trapping and microscopy. I am interested in making use of these tools in the biomedical science and in environmental sciences (especially in aerosol analysis). I dabble in areas such as THz beam shaping and microfluidics.

I have taught a range of courses throughout my career from first year to research postgraduate. I have been fortunate to teach across disciplinary boundaries, teaching to students taking degrees in topics such as product design to quantum computing.

 

Qualifications

  • MSci (Hons) Laser Physics and Optoelectronics 
    1997 - University of St. Andrews 
  • PhD Physics 
    2001 - University of St. Andrews 

External Memberships

  • Member of the Institute of Physics (MInstP)
  • Senior Member of the Optica
  • Chartered Physicist (CPhys)
Research

Research Areas

Accepting PhDs

I am currently accepting PhDs in Physics.

Please get in touch if you would like to discuss your research ideas further.

Physics

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Research Specialisms

  • Photonics and Optical Physics
  • Physics
  • Physical Chemistry
  • Biophysical Science
  • Applied Physics

Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is HESA open data, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.

Teaching

Teaching Responsibilities

Currently my teaching consists of honours project supervision on the physics program, but am open to supervising projects from students in any subject area interested in experimental or computational optics and photonics, including biophotonics. 

In 2023 I will be starting a new Optics 3rd year course, aimed at students studying physics.

Publications

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  • Optical manipulation of airborne particles: Techniques and applications

    McGloin, D., Burnham, D. R., Summers, M. D., Rudd, D., Dewar, N., Anand, S.
    Faraday Discussions, vol. 137, pp. 335-350
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Quantitative force mapping of an optical vortex trap

    Zhao, Y., Milne, G., Edgar, J. S., Jeffries, G. D., McGloin, D., Chiu, D. T.
    Applied Physics Letters, vol. 92, no. 16, 161111
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Studying aerosols using optical traps

    McGloin, D.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

  • Transverse particle dynamics in a Bessel beam

    Milne, G., Dholakia, K., McGloin, D., Volke-Sepulveda, K., Zemánek, P.
    Optics Express, vol. 15, no. 21, pp. 13972-13987
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Spin-to-orbital angular momentum conversion in a strongly focused optical beam

    Zhao, Y., Edgar, J. S., Jeffries, G. D., McGloin, D., Chiu, D. T.
    Physical Review Letters, vol. 99, no. 7, 073901
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Holographic and single beam optical manipulation of hyphal growth in filamentous fungi

    Burnham, D. R., Wright, G. D., Read, N. D., McGloin, D.
    Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics, vol. 9, no. 8, pp. S172-S179
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Parametric resonance of optically trapped aerosols

    Di Leonardo, R., Ruocco, G., Leach, J., Padgett, M. J., Wright, A. J., Girkin, J. M., Burnham, D. R., McGloin, D.
    Physical Review Letters, vol. 99, no. 1, 010601
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Direct detection of optical phase conjugation in a colloidal medium

    López-Mariscal, C., Gutiérrez-Vega, J. C., McGloin, D., Dholakia, K.
    Optics Express, vol. 15, no. 10, pp. 6330-6335
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Vortex-trap-induced fusion of femtoliter-volume aqueous droplets

    Lorenz, R. M., Edgar, J. S., Jeffries, G. D., Zhao, Y., McGloin, D., Chiu, D. T.
    Analytical Chemistry, vol. 79, no. 1, pp. 224-228
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Controlled fusion of femtoliter-volume aqueous droplets using holographic optical tweezers

    McGloin, D., Buchanan, J., Burnham, D. R., Lorenz, R. M., Scott Edgar, J., Jeffries, G. D., Zhao, Y., Chiu, D. T.
    Contributions to Journals: Conference Articles

  • Holographic optical manipulation of aerosols

    Burnham, D. R., McGloin, D.
    Contributions to Journals: Conference Articles

  • Holographic optical manipulation of hyphal growth in filamentous fungi

    Burnham, D. R., McGloin, D., Wright, G. D., Read, N. D.
    Contributions to Journals: Conference Articles

  • Laserless optical trapping

    López-Mariscal, C., Gutiérrez-Vega, J. C., McGloin, D., Dholakia, K.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

  • Parametric excitation of optically trapped aerosols

    Di Leonardo, R., Ruocco, G., Leach, J., Padgett, M. J., Wright, A. J., Girkin, J. M., Burnham, D. R., McGloin, D.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

  • Studies of droplet manipulation in optical traps

    McGloin, D., Burnham, D. R., Summers, M. D., Rudd, D. R., Shavisi, A., Dewar, N.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

  • Optical tweezers: 20 Years on

    McGloin, D.
    Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, vol. 364, no. 1849, pp. 3521-3537
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Controlled aerosol manipulation using holographic optical tweezers

    Burnham, D. R., McGloin, D.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

  • Optical guiding of aerosols

    Summers, M. D., Reid, J., McGloin, D.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

  • Phase conjugation and four-wave mixing in a colloidal medium

    López-Mariscal, C., Gutiérrez-Vega, J. C., McGloin, D., Dholakia, K.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

  • Holographic optical trapping of aerosol droplets.

    Burnham, D. R., McGloin, D.
    Optics Express, vol. 14, no. 9, pp. 4176-4182
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Atom guiding along high order Laguerre-Gaussian light beams formed by spatial light modulation

    Rhodes, D. P., Gherardi, D. M., Livesey, J., McGloin, D., Melville, H., Freegarde, T., Dholakia, K.
    Journal of Modern Optics, vol. 53, no. 4, pp. 547-556
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Controlling and characterizing the coagulation of liquid aerosol droplets

    Buajarern, J., Mitchem, L., Ward, A. D., Hendrik Nahler, N., McGloin, D., Reid, J. P.
    Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 125, no. 11, 114506
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Four-Wave Mixing in Colloidal Media

    López-Mariscal, C., Gutiérrez-Vega, J. C., McGloin, D., Dholakia, K.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

  • Optical guiding of aerosol droplets

    Summers, M. D., Reid, J. P., McGloin, D.
    Optics Express, vol. 14, no. 14, pp. 6373-6380
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Light induced separation and flow of microscopic and biological particles

    Milne, G., Paterson, L., McGloin, D., Riches, A., Dholakia, K.
    Contributions to Journals: Conference Articles

  • Bessel beams: Diffraction in a new light

    Mcgloin, D., Dholakia, K.
    Contemporary Physics, vol. 46, no. 1, pp. 15-28
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Colloidal dynamics in the circularly symmetric optical potential of a Bessel beam

    Milne, G., McGloin, D., Dholakia, K.
    Contributions to Journals: Conference Articles

  • Optical levitation in a Bessel light beam

    Garcés-Chávez, V., Roskey, D., Summers, M. D., Melville, H., McGloin, D., Wright, E. M., Dholakia, K.
    Applied Physics Letters, vol. 85, no. 18, pp. 4001-4003
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Imaging in optical micromanipulation using two-photon excitation

    Dholakia, K., Little, H., Brown, C. T., Agate, B., McGloin, D., Paterson, L., Sibbett, W.
    New Journal of Physics, vol. 6, pp. 1-8
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Micromanipulation with Bessel beams: Studies of angular momentum and reconstruction

    McGloin, D., Garcés-Chávez, V., Dholakia, K.
    Contributions to Journals: Conference Articles

  • Optically bound arrays of microscopic particles in one dimension

    McGloin, D., Carruthers, A. E., Dholakia, K., Wright, E. M.
    Contributions to Journals: Conference Articles

  • The reconstruction of optical angular momentum after distortion in amplitude, phase and polarization

    Garcés-Chávez, V., McGloin, D., Summers, M. D., Fernandez-Nieves, A., Spalding, G. C., Cristobal, G., Dholakia, K.
    Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics, vol. 6, no. 5, pp. S235-S238
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Optically bound microscopic particles in one dimension

    McGloin, D., Carruthers, A. E., Dholakia, K., Wright, E. M.
    Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, vol. 69, no. 2 1, pp. 021403-1-021403-6
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Rectifying transport of a mixture of Brownian particles on an asymmetric periodic optical potential

    Milne, G., McGloin, D., Tatarkova, S., Sibbett, W., Dholakia, K.
    Contributions to Journals: Conference Articles

  • Optical trapping of three-dimensional structures using dynamic holograms

    Melville, H., Milne, G. F., Spalding, G. C., Sibbett, W., Dholakia, K., McGloin, D.
    Optics Express, vol. 11, no. 26, pp. 3562-3567
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Three-dimensional arrays of optical bottle beams

    McGloin, D., Spalding, G. C., Melville, H., Sibbett, W., Dholakia, K.
    Optics Communications, vol. 225, no. 4-6, pp. 215-222
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Observation of the Transfer of the Local Angular Momentum Density of a Multiringed Light Beam to an Optically Trapped Particle

    Garcés-Chávez, V., McGloin, D., Padgett, M. J., Dultz, W., Schmitzer, H., Dholakia, K.
    Physical Review Letters, vol. 91, no. 9, 093602
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Coherent effects in a driven Vee scheme

    McGloin, D.
    Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, vol. 36, no. 13, pp. 2861-2871
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Transient response of a cold atomic beam in the presence of a far-off resonance light guide

    Livesey, J. G., Rhodes, D. P., McGloin, D., Dholakia, K.
    Journal of Modern Optics, vol. 50, no. 11, pp. 1751-1755
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Interfering Bessel beams for optical micromanipulation

    McGloin, D., Garcés-Chávez, V., Dholakia, K.
    Optics Letters, vol. 28, no. 8, pp. 657-659
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Applications of spatial light modulators in atom optics

    McGloin, D., Spalding, G. C., Melville, H., Sibbett, W., Dholakia, K.
    Optics Express, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 158-166
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Advanced Micromanipulation using Non-diffracting Beams

    McGloin, D., Garcés-Chávez, V., Melville, H., Spalding, G. C., Sibbett, W., Dholakia, K.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

  • Advanced micromanipulation using Bessel beams

    McGloin, D., Garces-Chavez, V., Melville, H., Spalding, G. C., Sibbett, W., Dholakia, K.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

  • Observation of the simultaneous transfer of the spin and orbital angular momentum of light to an optically trapped particle

    Garcés-Chávez, V., McGloin, D., Padgett, M. J., Dholakia, K.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

  • Guiding a cold atomic beam along a co-propagating and oblique hollow light guide

    Rhodes, D. P., Lancaster, G. P., Livesey, J., McGloin, D., Arlt, J., Dholakia, K.
    Optics Communications, vol. 214, no. 1-6, pp. 247-254
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Simultaneous micromanipulation in multiple planes using a self-reconstructing light beam

    Garcés-Chávez, V., McGloin, D., Melville, H., Sibbett, W., Dholakia, K.
    Nature, vol. 419, no. 6903, pp. 145-147
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Electromagnetically induced transparency in N-level cascade schemes

    McGloin, D., Fulton, D. J., Dunn, M. H.
    Optics Communications, vol. 190, no. 1-6, pp. 221-229
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Polarization effects in electromagnetically induced transparency

    McGloin, D., Dunn, M. H., Fulton, D. J.
    Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, vol. 62, no. 5, pp. 53802-53801
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Simple theory of microwave induced transparency in atomic and molecular systems

    McGloin, D., Dunn, M. H.
    Journal of Modern Optics, vol. 47, no. 11, pp. 1887-1897
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Extended mode-hop-free tuning by use of a dual-cavity, pump-enhanced optical parametric oscillator

    Turnbull, G. A., McGloin, D., Lindsay, I. D., Ebrahimzadeh, M., Dunn, M. H.
    Optics Letters, vol. 25, no. 5, pp. 341-343
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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