Dr Graham Bruce
Senior Research Laboratory Manager
- Phone
- +44 (0)1334 46 3019
- gdb2@st-andrews.ac.uk
Research areas
Graham is a Senior Research Laboratory Manager in the School of Physics and Astronomy.
Graham's research covers a number of areas in the field of optics. He develops approaches to use light to measure the chemical composition of different objects, especially those sealed behind barriers. He uses lasers to control and manipulate objects ranging from single atoms to micron-scale glass beads, to enable their use in quantum physics investigations. He also scrambles laser beams on rough surfaces and uses the resultant speckle pattern to perform metrology. Finally, he investigates methods of holographic laser beam shaping for a variety of applications.
His work has been recognised by major awards including STEM for Britain and the Museums and Heritage Awards.
More information can be found at
PhD supervision
- Edward Appleton
- Hal Gee
- Ane Kritzinger
Selected publications
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Open access
Warsop, S. J. E. T., Caixeiro , S., Bischoff, M., Kursawe, J., Bruce, G. D. & Wijesinghe, P., 4 Jun 2025, In: npj Artificial Intelligence. 1, 12 p., 6.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Facchin, M., Khan, S. N., Dholakia, K. & Bruce, G. D., Aug 2024, In: Nature Reviews Physics. 6, 8, p. 500-508
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Metzger, N. K., Spesyvtsev, R., Bruce, G. D., Miller, B., Maker, G. T., Malcolm, G., Mazilu, M. & Dholakia, K., 5 Jun 2017, In: Nature Communications. 8, 8 p., 15610.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Haller, E., Hudson, J., Kelly, A., Cotta, D. A., Peaudecerf, B., Bruce, G. D. & Kuhr, S., Sept 2015, In: Nature Physics. 11, 9, p. 738-742
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Dholakia, K. & Bruce, G. D., 22 Mar 2019, In: Nature Photonics. 13, p. 229-230 2 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate