Jamie Somers Scientist

Jamie Somers is an Irish scientist and physics PhD researcher at Trinity College Dublin. Specialising in optics, nanophotonics, and nanophotonic metamaterials, he is supervised by Prof. Louise Bradley at Trinity College Dublin and co-supervised by Dr. Ali K. Yetisen at Imperial College London. His doctoral thesis, "Next Generation 3D Printed Photonic Structures," focuses on engineering responsive materials and 3D hydrogel-printed photonic structures using a non-linear optical process known as two-photon polymerisation. His doctoral work is an international collaboration between Trinity College Dublin, Imperial College London, and University College London. It is funded by Taighde Éireann Research Ireland (formerly Science Foundation Ireland) through the AMBER Research Centre and the £6.6 million Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in the Advanced Characterisation of Materials, an intensive programme designed to train leading experimentalists.

Prior to his PhD, Jamie earned a B.Sc. (Hons) in Applied Physics from Dublin City University in 2023. Working within the Costello Group, his final-year undergraduate thesis "Simulating Laser-Induced Dynamics in Next-Generation Photo-Acid Materials for EUVL" was an interdisciplinary collaboration between the physics and chemistry departments. During this project, he used High-Performance Computing (HPC) and the quantum chemistry package ORCA to model laser-induced molecular dynamics for Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography.

Across his academic career, Jamie has completed five research internships. Most recently, from July to October 2026, he completed a four-month international placement at the Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology (IPHT) in Jena, Germany, where he worked on converting nanoscale structures into custom General Writing Language (GWL) scripts and optimising direct laser microfabrication processes. His earlier internships spanned ultrafast laser spectroscopy, probing the chemical reactions and molecular dynamics of photoswitches — laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy of wind turbine contaminants, and developing Python software to automate the mapping of transparent conducting materials. In 2022, he was also awarded the Craig Lunte Scholarship, enabling him to spend the summer conducting international research at the University of Kansas, an R1 doctoral research university in the United States.

Alongside his experimental research, Jamie is proficient in several programming languages, including Python, C++, JavaScript, HTML, PHP, and SQL, and actively shares open-source code via his GitHub repositories. He is a strong advocate for laboratory sustainability and research integrity; serving as a certified My Green Labs Ambassador since July 2023 and holding certifications in both Epigeum Research Integrity and the CITI Programme for Responsible Conduct of Research.

This website serves as a central archive of Jamie's academic career, featuring links to his peer-reviewed publications, open-source software, and 30 undergraduate physics laboratory reports.

Based in Dublin, Ireland, Jamie Somers works across the Irish, United Kingdom, European, and international nanophotonics communities, maintaining active research links with Trinity College Dublin, Imperial College London, University College London, Dublin City University, the Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, and the University of Kansas. Through this website, researchers, collaborators, and visitors worldwide can explore his academic portfolio — including his peer-reviewed publications in journals such as Optics Express and Spectrochimica Acta Part B, open-source scientific software, and verified profiles on ORCID, Google Scholar, ResearchGate, and Web of Science.