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Graham Bruce
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Optical physicist at University of St Andrews | father | rugby enthusiast.
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The next instalment in the Saints Talk series will be from our very own Dr Graham Bruce. He's will talk about their toxic project. For details on how to register, please click on the link below. @grahamdbruce.bsky.social www.st-andrews.ac.uk/develop-2/sa...
October 28, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Grateful to have been included in a Feature in ‪@theobserveruk.bsky.social‬ focussing on "fake spotters", available online today. This gives an overview of our work to tackle counterfeit spirits using laser spectroscopy, which we hope to see in use very soon!

observer.co.uk/style/featur...
The real deal: our fascination with fakes – and how to sp...
With talented counterfeiters at the top of their game, how on earth do you spot a fake? And does it really matter anyway?
observer.co.uk
June 12, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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DEFORM-Net out in npj Artificial Intelligence — an #open-source, unsupervised deep learning tool for full-field displacement estimation in microscopy videos with #ImageJ #FIJI plugin.
Led by Philip Wijesinghe & Soloman Warsop — huge congratulations to the whole team!
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Estimating full-field displacement in biological images using deep learning - npj Artificial Intelligence
npj Artificial Intelligence - Estimating full-field displacement in biological images using deep learning
www.nature.com
June 11, 2025 at 1:09 PM
More context for our work on detecting poisonous 19th century books, via the University Collections blog:

university-collections.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/02/24/p...
Poisonous books – Dangers from the past – University Collections blog
university-collections.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
February 25, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Recent work by Graham Bruce and University Libraries and Museums on finding poisonous 19th Century books is now featured in the exhibition ‘Poisonous Books – dangers from the past’, at the Wardlaw Museum until 23rd March. Entry is free for all. @grahamdbruce.bsky.social
February 24, 2025 at 9:44 AM
It was a pleasure to speak to The Saint student newspaper recently about our work in whisky authentication: www.thesaint.scot/post/a-toast...

For research articles, see doi.org/10.1039/D0AY..., doi.org/10.1364/OE.4... and doi.org/10.1016/j.cr...
A Toast to Authenticity
The proof is in the lightingA single bottle of The Macallan 1926 recently fetched £2.1 million at auction, but even the world's most valuable whiskies are not immune to counterfeiters. As rare Scotch ...
www.thesaint.scot
February 23, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Its Calcutta Cup week, so time to dust off this old classic

youtu.be/WIpu1Kmhq94?...
February 18, 2025 at 7:12 AM
New paper, with colleagues in Adelaide and Nottingham: doi.org/10.1088/2515...

The developmental potential of a mammalian oocyte can be inferred from the motion of a particle optically trapped in the extracellular matrix!

This has important potential implications for fertility research.
Microrheology of the cumulus-oocyte matrix using optical tweezers - IOPscienceSearch
Microrheology of the cumulus-oocyte matrix using optical tweezers, Campugan, Carl, Perrella, Christopher, Lim, Megan, Tan, Tiffany C.Y., Schartner, Erik, Arita, Yoshi, Bruce, Graham David, Mendonca, T...
doi.org
February 10, 2025 at 8:59 PM
If you are in the St Andrews area, our current project on detecting arsenical pigments in Victorian books features in this fantastic exhibition at the Wardlaw Museum!
February 4, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Delighted to have received funding from this Accelerator. Our team @uniofstandrews.bsky.social will be delivering impact in the heritage sector: deploying a new tool to detect arsenical pigments in 19th Century books in collections across Scotland.
New impact projects at @uofglasgow.bsky.social,
@unistrathclyde.bsky.social, @heriotwattuni.bsky.social and @uniofstandrews.bsky.social will benefit from new funding from the Photonics and Quantum Accelerator.

Read more here: gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...
December 11, 2024 at 8:08 PM
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Here we go! I'm advertising two PhD projects in the School of Physics & Astronomy!

One is all about developing new ways to model open quantum systems: www.ph.ed.ac.uk/phd-projects...

The other is about disorder and many-body localisation: www.ph.ed.ac.uk/phd-projects...

Just ask for more info!
Non-equilibrium Dynamics of Open Quantum Systems
www.ph.ed.ac.uk
November 22, 2024 at 3:53 PM
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#WritingTip:
You can always fix bad pages. You can’t fix no pages.

Write. Just write.
November 16, 2024 at 5:06 PM