Research areas
Biophotonics & biophysics:
- bio-derived optical structures and devices
- biological lasers (living lasers)
- optical devices based of fluorescent proteins
- cellular biomechanics
- nanophotonic biosensors
Organic electronics / OLEDs:
- nano- and micro-patterning of organic semiconductors
- OLED optics and outcoupling, nano-photonic structures
- spectroscopy and molecular orientation
- organic electronics in lab-on-chip systems
- white OLEDs
Plasmonics:
- plasmonic lasers / spasers
- optical amplification
- ‘molecular’ plasmonics
- organic/inorganic hybrid systems
- plasmonic waveguides and sensors
More on http://gatherlab.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk.
PhD supervision
- Jothi Letchumy Mahendra Kumar
- Ranjini Sircar
Selected publications
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Open access
Electrochemically induced hyperfluorescence based on the formation of charge-transfer excimers
Moon, C.-K., Yasuda, Y., Kusakabe, Y., Popczyk, A., Fukushima, S., Butscher, J. F., Pathak, N., Schlecht, J., Ishihara, K., Dumele, O., Kaji, H. & Gather, M. C., 24 Apr 2026, In: Nature Communications. 17, 10 p., 3753.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Harnessing the orientation of columnar discotic liquid crystals for narrowband blue emission with enhanced out-coupling efficiency toward improvement of SP-OLEDs performance
De, J., Gupta, A. K., Litvinas, D., Tenopala-Carmona, F., Lehmann, M., Gather, M. C. & Zysman-Colman, E., 7 Feb 2026, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Advanced Functional Materials. Early View, 14 p., e28081.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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High-power pulsed electrochemiluminescence for optogenetic manipulation of Drosophila larval behaviour
Moon, C.-K., König, M., Sircar, R., Butscher, J. F., Alle, R., Meerholz, K., Pulver, S. R. & Gather, M. C., 5 Feb 2026, In: Light: Science & Applications. 15, 11 p., 104.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Reducing the threshold of organic polariton lasers by active layer micropatterning and lateral confinement
Witt, J., Oh, J., Marcato, T., Mischok, A., Shih, C.-J. & Gather, M. C., 9 May 2026, In: Small Structures . 7, 5, 8 p., e202600009.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Students as carbon accountants: calculating carbon costs of a PhD in neuroscience
Smith, W. V., Bebbington, A., Sircar, R., Gather, M. & Pulver, S., 1 Feb 2026, In: Genetics. 232, 2, iyaf268.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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CRB2 depletion induces YAP signaling and disrupts mechanosensing in podocytes
Sun, Y., Kronenberg, N. M., Sethi, S. K., Dash, S. N., Kovalik, M. E., Sempowski, B., Strickland, S., Raina, R., Sperati, C. J., Tian, X., Ishibe, S., Hall, G. & Gather, M. C., 1 Apr 2025, In: American Journal of Physiology - Renal Physiology. 328, 4, p. F578-F595 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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DNA sensing with whispering gallery mode microlasers
Caixero, S., Dörrenhaus, R., Popczyk, A., Schubert, M., Kath-Schorr, S. & Gather, M. C., 19 Mar 2025, In: Nano Letters. 25, 11, p. 4467–4475Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review
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Engineering mechanical resonances of magnetoelectric transducers
Butscher, J. F. & Gather, M. C., 4 Feb 2025, In: Applied Physics Letters. 126, 5, 6 p., 053503.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Highly transparent elastic optical microcavities for interferometric mapping of cell mechanics
Busse, F., Booth, J. H., Kronenberg, N. M., Sun, Y., Meek, A. T., Mischok, A., Pulver, S. R. & Gather, M. C., 1 Nov 2025, In: Biomedical Optics Express. 16, 11, p. 4617-4632 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Reduced nephrin tyrosine phosphorylation impairs podocyte force transmission and accelerates detachment in disease
Williamson, C., Martin, C., Kumar, J. D., Lu, P., New, L. A., Wang, A. Y., Kronenberg, N. M., Gather, M. C., Reynolds, P. A. & Jones, N., 20 Jun 2025, In: iScience. 28, 6, p. 1-19 19 p., 112673.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review