Roberts, Nicholas - University of Bristol - School of Biological Sciences

个人简介

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 Crystal Physics Group with Prof Helen Gleeson in 2003. The focus of my work was on optical studies of model biological liquid crystal systems relating to vertebrate photoreceptors. During my PhD, I conducted much of my biological research at University of Victoria, BC, Canada. After a year as a post-doc back in Manchester, I was awarded a Leverhulme Trust Early Career fellowship to conduct research on vertebrate polarization vision. In 2006, I was awarded an EPSRC Life Science Interface fellowship to work on optical design in vertebrate and invertebrate visual systems, splitting my time between the new Photon Science Institute at Manchester and Queens University in Canada. In Oct 2009, I started a 5 year BBSRC David Philips Fellowship based in the Ecology of Vision Group here at Bristol.

研究领域

Detection of light and colour in nature

近期论文

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Jordan, TM, Partridge, JC & Roberts, NW, 2012, ‘Non-polarizing broadband multilayer reflectors in fish’. Nature Photonics, vol 6., pp. 759-763 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 Temple, S, Pignatelli, V, Cook, T, How, MJ, Chiou, T-S, Roberts, N & Marshall, N, 2012, ‘High-resolution polarisation vision in a cuttlefish’. Current Biology, vol 22., pp. R121 - R122 Grigorenko, A, Roberts, N, Dickinson, M & Zhang, Y, 2008, ‘Nanometric optical tweezers based on nanostructured substrates’. Nature Photonics, vol 2., pp. 365 - 370 Roberts, N, Porter, M & Cronin, T, 2011, ‘The molecular basis of mechanisms underlying polarization vision’. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol 366., pp. 627 - 637 Jewell, S, Vukusic, P & Roberts, N, 2007, ‘Circularly polarized color reflection in the beetle Plusiotis boucardi’. New Journal Physics, vol 9., pp. 99