Gruszka's Chromatin Dynamics Lab combines real-time single-molecule imaging with biochemistry and biophysics (including in Xenopus egg-extract systems) to study how epigenetic information carried by nucleosomes is disassembled and re-established during DNA replication. The lab is actively recruiting postdoctoral fellows.

Kapanidis' Gene Machines group develops single-molecule fluorescence methods (including ALEX/FRET and super-resolution microscopy) to observe transcription and other gene-expression machinery in real time in bacteria and viruses, and leverages this toolkit to build ultrasensitive DNA-based biosensors for pathogen and antibiotic-resistance detection.

Karenowska leads the Quantum Magnonics group, which develops low-temperature microwave magnonic circuits to probe magnon physics at the quantum level. Core experiments are conducted at millikelvin temperatures in a dilution refrigerator. Research foci include: (1) propagating magnon dynamics in YIG waveguides at mK temperatures — measuring spin-wave pulse propagation and characterising the low-temperature ferromagnetic resonance frequency shift; (2) magnon-phonon (phonon-to-magnon) interconversion via magnetoelastic coupling and symmetry breaking in YIG; (3) spin-cat state generation in ferromagnetic insulators — theoretical and experimental work toward macroscopic quantum superposition states of magnons; and (4) magnon spintronics — spin-charge interconversion in YIG/metal heterostructures. These systems are relevant for microwave quantum information processing and quantum-limited magnetic-frequency-band sensing.

Kuhn leads the Atom-Photon Connection group, working at the single-atom, single-photon level. Key research thrusts: (1) deterministic generation of indistinguishable single photons from single atoms in high-finesse cavities, with cluster-state production for one-way quantum computing; (2) development of integrated fibre-tip microcavities with small radius-of-curvature for >50% photon capture efficiency and direct fibre coupling; (3) single-photon quantum memories using cavity-coupled atom systems; and (4) optical trapping of single atoms in the Lamb-Dicke regime for quantum simulation and networking. The group uses reinforcement learning for optimal quantum control of atom-cavity systems.

Kukura invented mass photometry, a label-free interferometric-scattering microscopy technique that mass-images single biomolecules in solution with precision rivalling native mass spectrometry; his group continues to expand the technique's hardware, analysis (including deep learning) and range of biomolecular applications, in close collaboration with Justin Benesch.

Lvovsky works broadly across quantum and optical technology, from foundational quantum optics (non-classical light states) to quantum-enhanced imaging; recent work combines spatial-mode demultiplexing with image scanning microscopy to push lateral resolution beyond the classical diffraction limit.

Schermelleh develops and applies 3D structured-illumination and correlative super-resolution/cryo-EM microscopy to study spatial genome architecture, investigating how biophysical forces, epigenetic memory and cohesin activity shape cell-type-specific transcription programmes at the nanoscale; he directs the Micron Oxford Advanced Bioimaging Facility.

Smith leads the Photonic Nanomaterials Group, studying nanostructured materials (semiconductor nanocrystals, diamond colour centres) coupled to open-access tunable optical microcavities, with applications spanning efficient spin-photon interfaces for NV-diamond quantum networks and single-photon sources.

Smith's Dipolar Quantum Gases group builds ultracold erbium (and Er-K mixture) experiments to study the effect of long-range, anisotropic dipole-dipole interactions on many-body quantum phenomena including supersolidity, turbulence and impurity/polaron physics.

Tan leads the Superconducting Quantum Detectors group, holding ERC Starting and Consolidator Grants. Two main research pillars: (1) Quantum-limited SIS mixer development — pushing THz SIS heterodyne receivers above the Nb gap (~700 GHz) using NbTiN/NbN films for next-generation ALMA wideband sensitivity upgrade (Band 9) and large-format focal-plane mixer arrays for JCMT/SMA; (2) Superconducting parametric amplifiers (TWPAs) — fabricating kinetic-inductance and Josephson-junction TWPAs achieving near-quantum-limited broadband noise performance from microwave to THz, with applications to dark matter/axion searches (ABRACADABRA/prototype cavity haloscope), quantum computing qubit readout, and CMB-grade receivers. Group is transitioning TWPA fabrication in-house using Beecroft Building cleanroom. ERC Consolidator Grant awarded 2024.