Dr Nicholas Roberts

Research summary

My research is focused on investigating optical mechanisms that underlie sensory abilities such as polarization vision and the evolution of the bio-optics of signaling and photoreception.

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Biography

I gained my first degree, an MPhys in Physics and Astrophysics, in 1999 at the University of Manchester. I stayed on in Manchester and completed a PhD in the Liquid ...

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Memberships

School of Biological Sciences

Groups

• Behaviour, Sensory and Neurobiology

Labs

• Ecology of Vision

Selected publications

• Roberts, N, T-S, C, N.J., M & T.W., C 2009, ‘A biological quarter-wave retarder with excellent achromaticity in the visible wavelength region’. Nature Photonics, vol 3., pp. 641 - 644
• Grigorenko, A, Roberts, N, Dickinson, M & Zhang, Y 2008, ‘Nanometric optical tweezers based on nanostructured substrates’. Nature Photonics, vol 2., pp. 365 - 370

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Latest publications

• Yallop, ML, Anesio, AMB, Perkins, RG, Cook, J, Telling, JP, Fagan, DT, MacFarlane, JW, Stibal, M, Barker, GLA, Bellas, CM, Hodson, A, Tranter, M, Wadham, JL & Roberts, NW 2012, ‘Photophysiology and albedo-changing potential of the ice algal community on the surface of the Greenland ice sheet’. ISME Journal, vol 6., pp. 2302?2313
• Jordan, TM, Roberts, NW & Partridge, JC 2012, ‘An omnidirectional broadband mirror design inspired by biological multilayer reflectors’. in: A Lakhtakia, RJ MartinPalma (eds) BIOINSPIRATION, BIOMIMETICS, AND BIOREPLICATION 2012. SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING, BELLINGHAM, pp. -

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