Group

Adam Daizhen Wright grew up in Bracknell and Winnersh in the South of England. As an undergraduate at the University of Cambridge, he read Natural Sciences at St Catharine’s College, specialising in Physics. He obtained his BA & MSci degrees in 2014, before completing his MRes in Plastic Electronic Materials from Imperial College London in 2015.

Between 2015 and 2021, he was a PhD student and then a postdoc in the groups of Laura Herz and Michael Johnston in the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford. He was awarded his DPhil in 2019, receiving the Institute of Physics Semiconductor Physics Thesis Prize for his thesis, Electronic Processes in Metal Halide Perovskites. Staying on as a postdoc, he was a Junior Research Fellow at Mansfield College from 2018 to 2020, and then a Stipendiary Lecturer at Corpus Christi College from 2020 to 2021. He subsequently spent two years as a postdoc in Marissa Weichman’s group in the Chemistry Department at the University of Princeton, in Central New Jersey.

In August 2023, Adam joined the Department of Physics at the University of Warwick as an Assistant Professor. Outside work, Adam enjoys reading, running and gardening. He is also Chair of Trustees of UK Biology Competitions, which delivers competitions such as the British Biology Olympiad to over 60,000 school students every year.

PhD Students

Thomas is interested in researching the influence of polaritonic effects on halide perovskites in microcavities with the aim of improving the performance of perovskite solar cells. Thomas completed his MEng in Chemical Engineering at the University of Cambridge in 2024 where he performed his final-year research project on the optical properties of 2D/3D halide perovskite heterojunctions in Sam Stranks’ group. In his free time Thomas enjoys fishing, reading and walking his dogs.

Longpei obtained her bachelor’s degree from Wuhan University of Science and Technology in 2019, where she focused on first-principles studies of lithium-ion batteries. She completed her master’s degree at Peking University in 2022, working on the design, synthesis and device fabrication of electron transport materials for OLEDs. She also has three years of professional experience in the ESG sector of a bank. Her current PhD research is on halide segregation in perovskite solar cells materials. In her leisure time, she enjoys reading, painting and practising yoga.

BSc Project Students

Shengyuan is a third-year Mathematics and Physics student at the University of Warwick. He likes coming up with new ideas and approaching things from different angles. He is always trying to improve the way he organises his time and approaches his work. Outside university, he enjoys working out at the gym and trying out new recipes.

Thresoph is a final-year BSc Physics student at the University of Warwick. His project, supervised by Dr Adam Wright, involves using MATLAB to simulate the formation of molecular polaritons in a Fabry–Pérot cavity containing different gases. In his free time, he enjoys photography and board games.

Former Members

Collaborators

Functional Materials & Devices Laboratory (Dr Jay B. Patel), King’s College London

The Borchert Lab (Dr Juliane Borchert), University of Freiburg and Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems

Computational Biomolecular Chemistry Group (Prof. Gerrit Groenhof), University of Jyväskylä

Imaging Complex Charge Dynamics Group (Dr Raj Pandya), University of Cambridge/University of Warwick