Tom Siday

School of Physics & Astronomy at the University of Birmingham, UK.

Dr Tom Siday received a Master of Physics degree from the University of York (2015) and completed his PhD in Electronic & Electrical Engineering at University College London (2020). His PhD thesis focused on boosting the sensitivity of near-field microscopes through the development of perfectly absorbing terahertz detectors and resonant antenna probes.

After his PhD, Tom spent 3 years (2019-2022) as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Regensburg, Germany. After this he returned to the UK as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Oxford (2023-2024). During this period, Tom was also awarded a Fulford Junior Research Fellowship at Somerville College. In these postdoctoral positions, he spent time developing new ways to access ultrafast dynamics on nanometre and atomic length scales and applied these techniques to a range of material systems: from two-dimensional semiconductors to light-harvesting materials.

Since 2024, Tom has been working as an Assistant Professor in the School of Physics at the University of Birmingham. His group (lightwave-collective.uk) works to sample and control the ultrafast dynamics of quantum materials over the shortest possible lengthscales.