Staff spotlight: Professor William Gillin

Professor Gillin works primarily on the electrical and optical properties of organic materials. His primary research interests are in the area or organic lanthanide complexes for producing optical gain. He also works with Paragraf Ltd on the use of vapour phase deposited graphene as a replacement for indium tin oxide in OLED devices and has a longstanding interest in organic spintronics.

He is the Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Chromosol, a spinout company from Queen Mary University of London. Chromosol was announced as a winner of the Royal Society of Chemistry Emerging Technologies Competition in September 2020. The company is developing a novel approach to integrating laser materials directly on to silicon chips, allowing them to communicate via pulses of light rather than electrical signals. The technology has the potential to vastly increase the speed of data transfer and could form the basis of next-generation computer systems.