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Professor David McGloin

Professor David McGloin
Professor David McGloin
Professor David McGloin

Personal Chair, Head of School

Accepting PhDs

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G05E Meston Building
Old Aberdeen Campus
Meston Walk
AB24 3UE

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School of Natural and Computing Sciences
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Biography

I joined the University of Aberdeen in September 2022 as the Head of School of Natural and Computing Sciences. I am a physicist by training having studied Laser Physics and Optoelectronics at St. Andrews, followed by a PhD in Atomic and Laser Physics, also at St. Andrews. I then briefly left academia to join the UK Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (dstl) working on optical imaging technologies.

I returned to St. Andrews in 2002 as a postdoctoral research fellow working on cold atom physics before being awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship in 2003 to work on holographic optical trapping and beam shaping. 

In 2007 I joined the University of Dundee as a Lecturer, and held a variety of roles, including Head of Physics and Associate Dean Research in the School of Science and Engineering.

In 2018 I moved to Australia to take up a Chair and act as the Director, Research Programs in the Faculty of Engineering and IT at the University of Technology Sydney.

My research work focusses on applications of optics in areas such as optical trapping and microscopy. I am interested in making use of these tools in the biomedical science and in environmental sciences (especially in aerosol analysis). I dabble in areas such as THz beam shaping and microfluidics.

I have taught a range of courses throughout my career from first year to research postgraduate. I have been fortunate to teach across disciplinary boundaries, teaching to students taking degrees in topics such as product design to quantum computing.

 

Qualifications

  • MSci (Hons) Laser Physics and Optoelectronics 
    1997 - University of St. Andrews 
  • PhD Physics 
    2001 - University of St. Andrews 

External Memberships

  • Member of the Institute of Physics (MInstP)
  • Senior Member of the Optica
  • Chartered Physicist (CPhys)
Research

Research Areas

Accepting PhDs

I am currently accepting PhDs in Physics.

Please get in touch if you would like to discuss your research ideas further.

Physics

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Research Specialisms

  • Photonics and Optical Physics
  • Physics
  • Physical Chemistry
  • Biophysical Science
  • Applied Physics

Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is HESA open data, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.

Teaching

Teaching Responsibilities

Currently my teaching consists of honours project supervision on the physics program, but am open to supervising projects from students in any subject area interested in experimental or computational optics and photonics, including biophotonics. 

In 2023 I will be starting a new Optics 3rd year course, aimed at students studying physics.

Publications

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  • Microscale characterization of prostate biopsies tissues using optical coherence elastography and second harmonic generation imaging

    Yuting, L., Li, C., Zhou, K., Guan, G., Appleton, P. L., Lang, S., McGloin, D., Huang, Z., Nabi, G.
    Laboratory Investigation, vol. 98, no. 3, pp. 380-390
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Quantitative assessment of the mechanical properties of prostate tissue with optical coherence elastography

    Ling, Y., Li, C., Zhou, K., Guan, G., Lang, S., McGloin, D., Nabi, G., Huang, Z.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

  • Optical redox ratio and endogenous porphyrins in the detection of urinary bladder cancer: A patient biopsy analysis

    Palmer, S., Litvinova, K., Dunaev, A., Yubo, J., McGloin, D., Nabi, G.
    Journal of Biophotonics, vol. 10, no. 8, pp. 1062-1073
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Microfluidics-based, time-resolved mechanical phenotyping of cells using high-speed imaging

    Belotti, Y., Conneely, M., Huang, T., McKenna, S., Nabi, G., McGloin, D.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

  • Second harmonic generation (SHG) imaging of cancer heterogeneity in ultrasound guided biopsies of prostate in men suspected with prostate cancer

    Ling, Y., Li, C., Feng, K., Palmer, S., Appleton, P. L., Lang, S., McGloin, D., Huang, Z., Nabi, G.
    Journal of Biophotonics, vol. 10, no. 6, pp. 911-918
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Droplet lasers: a review of current progress

    McGloin, D.
    Reports on Progress in Physics, vol. 80, no. 5, 054402
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • High-throughput, imaging based mechanical phenotyping of prostate cancer cells

    Belotti, Y., Huang, T., McKenna, S., Nabi, G., McGloin, D.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

  • Transport of intensity microscopy for distinguishing single and bundled microtubules

    Tyrell Davis, Q., Tanaka, T., McGloin, D.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

  • Improved antireflection coated microspheres for biological applications of optical tweezers

    Ferro, V., Sonnberger, A., Abdosamadi, M. K., McDonald, C., Schäffer, E., McGloin, D.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

  • Colloidal interactions with optical fields: Optical tweezers

    Mcgloin, D., Mcdonald, C., Belotti, Y.
    Fluids, Colloids and Soft Materials: An Introduction to Soft Matter Physics. Fernandez-Nieves, A., Puertas, A. M. (eds.). Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 111-130, 20 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • Changes in autofluorescence based organoid model of muscle invasive urinary bladder cancer

    Palmer, S., Litvinova, K., Dunaev, A., Fleming, S., McGloin, D., Nabi, G.
    Biomedical Optics Express, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 1193-1200
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Biophotonics: Cellular lasers

    McGloin, D.
    Nature Photonics, vol. 9, no. 9, pp. 559-560
    Contributions to Journals: Comments and Debates

  • Bubble wrap for optical trapping and cell culturing

    McDonald, C., McGloin, D.
    Biomedical Optics Express, vol. 6, no. 10, pp. 3757-3764
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Droplet lasers

    Jonáš, A., McGloin, D., Kiraz, A.
    Optics and Photonics News, vol. 26, pp. 36-43
    Contributions to Specialist Publications: Articles

  • Hydrodynamic stretching for prostate cancer detection

    Belotti, Y., Conneely, M., Palmer, S., Huang, T., Campbell, P., McKenna, S., Nabi, G., McGloin, D.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

  • Low-cost optical manipulation using hanging droplets of PDMS

    McDonald, C., McGloin, D.
    RSC Advances, vol. 5, no. 68, pp. 55561-55565
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Characterizing conical refraction optical tweezers

    McDonald, C., McDougall, C., Rafailov, E., McGloin, D.
    Optics Letters, vol. 39, no. 23, pp. 6691-6694
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Characterising Conical Refraction Optical Tweezers

    McDonald, C., McDougall, C., Rafailov, E., McGloin, D.
    Working Papers: Preprint Papers

  • In vitro and in vivo biolasing of fluorescent proteins suspended in liquid microdroplet cavities

    Jonáš, A., Aas, M., Karadag, Y., Manioǧlu, S., Anand, S., McGloin, D., Bayraktar, H., Kiraz, A.
    Lab on a Chip, vol. 14, no. 16, pp. 3093-3100
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Applied physics: Optical trapping for space mirrors

    McGloin, D.
    Contributions to Journals: Short Survey

  • Biological lasing in liquid microdroplets deposited on a superhydrophobic surface

    Jonáŝ, A., Aas, M., Karadag, Y., Bayraktar, H., Anand, S., McGloin, D., Kiraz, A.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

  • Droplet resonator based optofluidic microlasers

    Kiraz, A., Jonáš, A., Aas, M., Karadag, Y., Brzobohatý, O., Ježek, J., Pilát, Z., Zemánek, P., Anand, S., McGloin, D.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

  • Studying biofuel aerosol evaporation rates with single particle manipulation

    Corsetti, S., Miles, R. E., Reid, J. P., Kiefer, J., McGloin, D.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

  • Aerosol droplet optical trap loading using surface acoustic wave nebulization

    Anand, S., Nylk, J., Neale, S. L., Dodds, C., Grant, S., Ismail, M. H., Reboud, J., Cooper, J. M., McGloin, D.
    Optics Express, vol. 21, no. 25, pp. 30148-30155
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Introduction: Optical trapping and applications feature issue

    López-Mariscal, C., McGloin, D.
    Biomedical Optics Express, vol. 4, no. 11, pp. 2710-2711
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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