People

Dr. James N. Bull
Associate Professor at University of East Anglia (UEA)
Principal Investigator

James is from Christchurch, New Zealand, where he studied Chemistry [BSc(Hons) & PhD] at the University of Canterbury. He then held positions at University of Oxford, Durham University, and The University of Melbourne, before starting as a lecturer at UEA in 2019. He was awarded an EPSRC New Investigator Award in 2021, which allowed him to establish a Molecular Spectroscopy and Dynamics laboratory at UEA. He was promoted to an Associate Professor in 2024. The instruments page describes our current (and rapidly evolving) infrastructure and capabilities of our laboratory at UEA.

Current Group Members:

Alex Cook - MChem
Eleanor Ashworth – Postdoctoral Researcher
A new Postdoctoral Researcher position will become available in late-2025/early-2026, linked with an EPSRC grant on photomolecular motors

Alumni:

Eleanor Ashworth – PhD Student
Tony Kao – Postdoctoral Researcher
Eleanor Ashworth – MScR Student
Luis Simbari (MChem, 2024) - Chemistry - continued on to a PhD at Birmingham
Harriet Playle (MPhys, 2023) - Physics
Millie Beaumont (MChem, 2022) - Chemistry - continued on to a PhD at UCL
Idris Philips-Fry (MPhys, 2021) - Physics

Former BSc Project Students:

Jennifer Lui (2024) - Chemistry
Szymon Krukowski (2023) - Physics
William Daniels (2023) - Chemistry
Harriet Playle (2022) - Physics
Louis Janbakhsh (2021) - Physics
Daniel Howie (2021) - Physics
James Thomson (2021) - Chemistry
Idris Philips-Fry (2020) - Physics
Callum Strachan (2020) - Natural Sciences
Beth Carricker (2019) - Chemistry
Joe Gregory (2019) - Chemistry