Group Leader – Dr Mike Price

Michael Beswick Price grew up in Timaru, New Zealand. He completed his undergraduate studies in physics at the University of Otago, and the University of California Berkeley, before doing his PhD under Professor Sir Richard Friend in the Optoelectronics group at the University of Cambridge, UK. His PhD research focused on the optical properties of lead halide perovskites. After his PhD, he worked for the non-governmental organisation, The Smart Villages Initiative, studying how to improve energy access in rural areas in developing countries, before doing a Postdoc in Cambridge on conjugated polymer nanowire photophysics. In 2018, he began at Te Herenga Waka, Victoria University of Wellington, working alongside the ultrafast spectroscopy research group of Professor Justin Hodgkiss, and becoming a lecturer and Rutherford Discovery Fellow in 2022. He began his research at the University of Bristol in 2023 as a Royal Society University Research Fellow. His full list of publications can be found on Google Scholar.

PhD Students

Thomas Romain

My name is Thomas Romain, I’m a PhD student at the University of Bristol. I did my undergrad at Swansea University before moving on to work as a technician in the Perovskite-based solar company OxfordPV. I recently joined the Price group, to work on Terahertz spectroscopy and synthesising novel organic non-fullerene acceptors.

Masters and BSci Students

Sam Stringer