Rate My Professor Jame Lloyd-Hughes

James Lloyd-Hughes is a full Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Warwick, where he has been based since 2013. He directs the Warwick Centre for Ultrafast Spectroscopy and serves as Undergraduate Admissions Tutor for the Physics Department from September 2023. Previously, he acted as Postgraduate Admissions Tutor from 2016 to 2019 and Director of Graduate Studies from 2019 to 2022. From 2009 to 2014, he held an EPSRC Career Acceleration Fellowship, first at the University of Oxford and then at Warwick. Earlier in his career, he completed a postdoctoral position at ETH Zurich with Prof. Jérôme Faist and obtained his PhD at the University of Oxford under the supervision of Dr. Michael Johnston. He earned his undergraduate degree in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge.

Professor Lloyd-Hughes' research group utilizes ultrafast spectroscopy techniques to probe the physics of novel materials on timescales of around one picosecond. His work encompasses the development of sources and detectors of terahertz radiation, alongside investigations into semiconductors and nanomaterials, carbon nanotubes, heteronanotubes as quasi-1D composite materials, halide perovskites with emphasis on charge transport, recombination, and interfacial processes, organic semiconductors, functional materials, atomic-scale defects in carbon, vibrational states in wide-bandgap semiconductors, and the use of THz radiation to probe magnetically-induced states through cyclotron spectroscopy and studies of multiferroics. Key publications include 'Hot-Phonon-Induced Distortion of Diamond Defects on Ultrafast Timescales' (Physical Review Letters, 2025), 'High-bandwidth perovskite photonic sources on silicon' (Nature Photonics, 2023), 'A Review of the Terahertz Conductivity and Photoconductivity of Carbon Nanotubes and Heteronanotubes' (Advanced Optical Materials, 2021), 'The 2021 ultrafast spectroscopic probes of condensed matter roadmap' (Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2021), 'Ultrafast Optoelectronic Processes in 1D Radial van der Waals Heterostructures' (Nano Letters, 2020), and 'A review of the terahertz conductivity of bulk and nano-structured semiconductors' (Semiconductor Science and Technology, 2012).