Dr. Tiehan Shen

Current positions

Reader in Magnetism

Biography

My research career has taken me from Peking University (BSc), to Cambridge (PhD), then to Cardiff (PDRA), followed by academic appointments at Leeds (Lectureship in Physics) and at Salford (Readership in Magnetism). I won an ORS award and subsequently studied for my PhD at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge under the supervision of Prof. W.Y. Liang and Prof. J.V. Acrivos, in the P.C.S. Group headed by Dr. A.D. Yoffe. During my time at Cardiff that followed, I was a postdoctoral research associate to Prof. R.H. Williams, FRS. My first full academic appointment started in 1992 as a Lecturer in Physics at Leeds. This was followed by an appointment to a readership at Salford in 2000, a post I have held since.

At Salford, the past few years have seen my small team establish itself in the field of the fabrication and characterisation of nanostructured materials. Emphasis has been devoted to the study of their optical and magneto-optical properties. A ‘spin off’ from the research activities is the development of a novel quantitative polarisation microscope for application in life science research, which is being actively pursued in collaboration with biologists at Salford and a research team at St James’s Hospital, Leeds. The technical development has been through a spinout company, Optimum Imaging Ltd.

Areas of research

Functional Materials, Nano Materials, Stokes Polarimetric Imaging, Polarimetric Microscopy, Novel Imaging technologies

Areas of supervision

Functional Materials, Nano Materials, Stokes Polarimetric Imaging, Polarimetric Microscopy, Novel Imaging technologies