Department of Physics University of Utah 115 South 1400 East Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0830 USA Tel: +1-801-581-6408 Fax: +1-801-581-4801 Secretary: +1-801-581-5697 Email: lupton@physics.utah.edu Website: http://www.physics.utah.edu/~lupton/ Faculty Website: http://www.physics.utah.edu/people/faculty.html University of Regensburg Website:   http://www.physik.uni-regensburg.de/forschung/lupton/

Reasearch Interests
I work in the field of organic semiconductors and am interested in the fundamental optical and electronic properties of these systems. The aim of my research is to develop new frameworks and ideas to enable the creation of truly molecular optoelectronic devices. I started my PhD working on organic light-emitting diodes (LEDs). The bulk of my work focused on the development of a new class of materials based on star-shaped molecules, called dendrimers. I performed a wide range of measurements and calculations on these systems, which also led to the filing of a number of patents.

More recently, I have developed a number of techniques for the characterisation of defects in conjugated polymers using ultrafast fluorescence spectroscopy and gated electroluminescence spectroscopy. Further interests have been in molecular thermometry and semiconductor microcavities. I am now working on using single molecule spectroscopy to gain a microscopic understanding of charge generation and recombination and excitation energy transfer processes as well as assessing the possibility of quantum electrodynamical control of individual excitations. My main focus is on excitonic effects in conjugated polymers, triplet spectroscopy of organic semiconductors and the photophysics of novel inorganic colloidal semiconductor nanostructures.

CV

	1997	B.Sc. in Physics from Durham University (UK); Award of Henry Walters Prize and Chalmers Prize in Experimental Physics
	1997	CERN Summer student
	1999	DAAD Research Fellow, University of Marburg (Prof. H. Bässler)
	2000	Visiting Scientist, University of Rochester, NY (Prof. S. Mukamel)
	2000	Ph. D. in Physics, University of Durham (Prof. I. Samuel)
	2000	Research Fellow, University of St. Andrews (Prof. I. Samuel)
	2001	Project group leader, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz (Prof. G. Wegner)
	2002	University Assistant, Photonics and Optoelectronics Group, University of Munich
	2005	Offer of a W2/C3 Professorship (University of Kiel) as well as a Professorship (University of Utah)
	2006	Associate Professor of Physics, University of Utah
	2006	Award of the Max Auwärter Prize through the Austrian Physical Society
	2008	Award of the David & Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship for Science and Engineering
	2010	RCSA Scialog award
	2010	Full Professor of Physics and Astronomy
	2010	Professor of Physics (Chair), University of Regensburg