Office: CAP 0.31 Email: d.l.andrews@uea.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0) 1603-592014 School Position: Professor of Chemistry; Member, Senior Management Team; Promotions Committee.

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PhD Studentship available:  Improved methods for computing and interpreting nonlinear optical properties

Following PhD studies in Chemistry at University College London, David Andrews spent two years as a Research Associate in the Department of Mathematics. He then joined the University of East Anglia as Lecturer, gaining a Chair in Chemical Physics in 1996; he has also held Visiting Fellowships at University of Canterbury in New Zealand, and twice at the University of Western Ontario in Canada. Prof. Andrews was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 1988, a Fellow of the Institute of Physics in 1999, and a Fellow of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering, in 2006.

The interests of his research group broadly concern developing the theory of molecular interactions - with each other, and with light - in terms of quantum electrodynamics (QED). Quantum Electrodynamics is essentially the study of how matter interacts with light, treating both matter and light quantum mechanically. The QED group at UEA has been at the forefront in applications ranging from spectroscopy and nonlinear optics to the intermolecular transport of energy.

Prof. Andrews has over 200 research papers and also ten books to his name, including a widely adopted textbook on Lasers in Chemistry; he is also on the Editorial Boards of four international journals. The current focus of his research is on novel mechanisms for optical nanomanipulation and switching, and light-harvesting in nanostructured molecular systems. His group enjoys strong international links, particularly with groups in Canada, Lithuania, New Zealand and the United States. Prof. Andrews was recently Chair of the SPIE Nanotechnology Technical Group and he is currently Chair of the Royal Society of Chemistry Molecular Spectroscopy Group.

Selected Publications 

Multiple optical trapping and binding: new routes to self-assembly
T. Čižmár, L.C. Dávila Romero, K. Dholakia and D.L. Andrews
J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 43, 102001 (2010) (25 pages).
DOI:10.1088/0953-4075/43/10/102001. Invited.

Multipole transitions and photonics
D.L. Andrews, Optical angular momentum
Phys. Rev. A 81, 033825 (2010) (7 pages).
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.81.033825.

All-optical control of molecular fluorescence
D.S. Bradshaw and D.L. Andrews
Phys. Rev. A 81, 013424 (2010) (5 pages).
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.81.013424 

Dendrimer light-harvesting: intramolecular electrodynamics and mechanisms
D.L. Andrews, D.S. Bradshaw, R.D. Jenkins and J. Rodríguez
Dalton Trans. 10006-10014 (2009).
DOI: 10.1039/b908675g. Invited.

A back-to-front derivation: the equal spacing of quantum levels is a proof of simple harmonic oscillator physics
D.L. Andrews and L.C. Dávila Romero
Eur. J. Phys. 30, 1371-1380 (2009).
DOI: 10.1088/0143-0807/30/6/015.

Resonance energy transfer: When a dipole fails
D.L. Andrews and J.M. Leeder
J. Chem. Phys. 130, 184504 (2009) (9 pages).
DOI: 10.1063/1.3131168.

Optically-activated energy transfer: array implementation
D.L. Andrews and R.G. Crisp
J. Opt. A: Pure Appl. Opt., 8, S106-S112, (2008).  
DOI: 10.1088/1464-4258/8/4/S09

Optically switched energy transfer: twin-beam off-resonance control
D.L. Andrews
Phys. Rev. Letts, 99, 023601, (2007). 
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.023601

Optically induced forces and torques: Interactions between nanoparticles in a laser beam
D.S. Bradshaw and D.L. Andrews
Phys. Rev. A, 72, 033816, (2005).  
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.72.033816

Resonance energy transfer: The unified theory revisited
G.J. Daniels, R.D. Jenkins, D.S. Bradshaw, and D.L. Andrews
J. Chem. Phys., 119, 2264-2274, (2003).
DOI:10.1063/1.1579677

Polarizability and the resonance scattering of light: Damping sign issues
D.L. Andrews, L.C. Dávila Romero, and G.E. Stedman
Phys. Rev. A, 67, 055801, (2003). 
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.67.055801

Orbital angular momentum exchange in the interaction of twisted light with molecules
M. Babiker, C. R. Bennett, D. L .Andrews and L.C. Dávila Romero
Phys. Rev. Letts., 89, 143601, (2002). 
DOI: 0.1103/PhysRevLett.89.143601

The electronic influence of a third body on resonance energy transfer
G.J. Daniels and D.L. Andrews
J. Chem. Phys., 116, 6701-6712 (2002). 
DOI:10.1063/1.1742697

A quantum electrodynamical theory of three-center energy transfer for upconversion and downconversion in rare earth doped materials
D.L. Andrews and R.D. Jenkins
J. Chem. Phys., 114, 1089-1100 (2001). 
DOI:10.1063/1.1323958