I joined the School of Chemistry as a Royal Society University Research Fellow in 2015. Between 2011 and 2015 I was a post-doctoral research fellow at UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory with Professor Graham Fleming FRS, where I developed a new optical spectroscopy, two-dimensional electronic-vibrational spectroscopy, to explore coupled electronic-nuclear motion in carotenoids and light harvesting complexes. In 2011, I obtained my PhD from the University of Bristol, under the supervision of Professor Mike Ashfold FRS. My PhD thesis focused on the non-adiabatic dynamics of small heteroaromatic molecules in the gas phase and how these dynamics transferred, or were altered, in solution

Ultrafast multidimensional spectroscopy of biomolecules, light harvesting complexes and artificial photosynthetic systems

Oliver, TAA, Lewis, NHC & Fleming, GR, 2014, ‘Correlating the motion of electrons and nuclei with two-dimensional electronic-vibrational spectroscopy’. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol 111., pp. 10061-6 Oliver, TAA & Fleming, GR, 2015, ‘Following Coupled Electronic-Nuclear Motion through Conical Intersections in the Ultrafast Relaxation of β-Apo-8'-carotenal’. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol 119., pp. 11428-41 Huxter, VM, Oliver, TA, Budker, D & Fleming, GR, 2013, ‘Vibrational and electronic dynamics of nitrogen–vacancy centres in diamond revealed by two-dimensional ultrafast spectroscopy’. Nature Physics, vol 9., pp. 744-749 Lewis, NHC, Dong, H, Oliver, TAA & Fleming, GR, 2015, ‘Measuring correlated electronic and vibrational spectral dynamics using line shapes in two-dimensional electronic-vibrational spectroscopy’. The Journal Chemical Physics, vol 142., pp. 174202 Lewis, NHC, Dong, H, Oliver, TA & Fleming, GR, 2015, ‘A method for the direct measurement of electronic site populations in a molecular aggregate using two-dimensional electronic-vibrational spectroscopy’. The Journal Chemical Physics, vol 143., pp. 124203-1-124203-13 Oliver, TA, Zhang, Y, Roy, A, Ashfold, MNR & Bradforth, SE, 2015, ‘Exploring autoionization and photo-induced proton-coupled electron transfer pathways of phenol in aqueous solution’. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, vol 6., pp. 4159-4164