Vacancies
Don’t hesitate to contact James to discuss possible routes to joining the group. We will have a PhD position available for October 2026. Keep an eye on this page and findaphd.com for when the details are announced.
For prospective PhD students, please apply to the Photonics & Nanotechnology Group in the Department of Physics in the Natural, Mathematical & Engineering Sciences Faculty at King’s, specifying your desire to work with Dr. James Millen: APPLY HERE.
We also accept applications through the K-CSC programme if you are a Chinese student, APPLY HERE using the same details as above.
The Levitated Nanophysics Group and King’s College London are proud to be an inclusive employer, supportive of all forms of diversity, please see the KCL website for more details.
The Team
All email addresses to be appended by @kcl.ac.uk
Prof James Millen
Group Leader – Google Scholar page
Email: james.millen
Dr Qiongyuan Wu
PDRA
Email: qiongyuan.wu
Dr Jonathan Pritchett
PDRA
Email: jonathan.pritchett
Dr Joseph Kelly
PDRA
Email: joseph.2.kelly
Molly Message
Ph.D. Student
Email:molly.message
Zhenan Chen
Ph.D. Student
Email:zhenan.chen
Sophie Sanghera
Ph.D. Student
Email:sophie.sanghera
Ronghao Yin
Ph.D. Student
Email:ronghao.yin
Fedor Sokolov
Ph.D. Student
Email:fedor.sokolov
Bianca Uy
Ph.D. Student
Email:bianca.1.uy
Alumni
Dr Yugang Ren (PhD 2019 – 2023, PDRA 2023 – 2025) –
Dr. James Sabin (PhD 2019-2024) – RA at University College London
Dr. Yanhui Hu (PhD 2018-2023) – PostDoc at ETH Zurich
Dr. Maryam Nikkhou (PDRA 2019-2022) – Alphasense
Dr. Muddassar Rashid (PDRA 2018-2023) – Universal Quantum
Nicola Palmer (SBSO 2023-2024)
JingJing Zhai (SBSO 2022-2023)
Dr. Katie O’Flynn (PhD 2018-2022) – PostDoc at University of Hamburg
Masters & Summer Students
Ushas Chenumalla (MSc 2024-2025)
Omar Bedward (MSci 2024-2025)
Ronghao Yin (MSc 2023-2024) – PhD at King’s College London
Maiko Lusterio (MSc 2023-2024)
He Zhang (MSci 2022-2023) – PhD at Imperial College London
Moming Jia (MSci 2022-2023) – PhD at Innsbruck University
Molly Message (MSc 2021-2022) – PhD at King’s College London
Yelizaveta Savchuk (MSci 2021-2022)
Enrique Benedetto (MSc 2020-2021)
Harry Borril (MSci 2019-2020)
Julio Figueroa Quintana (MSci 2019-2020)
Anoushka Sinha (KURF 2025)
Deok (Dean) Young Seo (KURF 2025)
Jana Bazeed (KURF 2024)
Emilio Meryn (KURF 2023)
Jude Russell (KURF 2023)
Seraphine Oakley (KURF 2022)
Coco Kern (KURF 2022)
Nur Mohd Faidzal (KURF 2021)
Sara Habte (Summer student 2021)
Inca Robinson (KURF 2019)
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