
ORC Nanophotonics & Metamaterials Group

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Mr. Thomas Grant
Project
Super-resolution microscopy enabled by artificial intelligence
Short CV
Tom received his masters degree in Physics, following the completion of a 4 year integrated masters at the University of St Andrews in June 2021.
He began his PhD studies at the Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton in October 2021.
Articles
- Localization of nanoscale objects with light singularities
T. Grant, A. N. Vetlugin, E. Plum, K. F. MacDonald, and N. I. Zheludev
Nanophotonics 14(7), 915 (2025) doi: 10.1515/nanoph-2024-0639 - pdf
Conference Contributions
- (invited) Controlling the information flow in optical metrology with plasmonics
C-H. Chi, T. Grant, K. F. MacDonald, L. Neubacher, S. Rotter, M. Weimar, H. Zhou, and N. I. Zheludev
Photonics and Electromagnetics Research Symposium 2025 (PIERS 2025), Chiba, Japan, 5 - 9 Nov 2025 - (invited) Harnessing Fisher information for optical metrology with plasmonics and topological light
C. H. Chi, H. Zhou, T. Grant, S. Rotter, K. F. MacDonald, and N. I. Zheludev
19th International Congress on Artificial Materials for Novel Wave Phenomena (Metamaterials 2025), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1-4 Sep 2025 - Plasmonic effects on information flow in optical localization metrology
H. Zhou, T. Grant, S. Rotter, K. F. MacDonald, and N. I. Zheludev
CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2025, Munich, Germany, 23 - 27 June 2025 - (poster) Improving imaging resolution with topologically structured light
T. Grant, E. Plum, N. I. Zheludev, and K. F. MacDonald
CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2025, Munich, Germany, 23 - 27 June 2025 - (keynote) Manipulating Fisher information with plasmonics in optical metrology
H. Zhou, T. Grant, C-H. Chi, S. Rotter, K. F. MacDonald,and N. I. Zheludev
11th International Conference on Surface Plasmon Photonics (SPP11),Tokyo, Japan, 19 - 23 May 2025 - (invited) Picometrology with topologically structured light
K. F. MacDonald, C-H. Chi, T. Grant, A. Vetlugin, E. Plum, N. I. Zheludev
Conference on Research and Innovations in Science and Technology of Materials, Paris, France, 10 - 13 Dec 2024 - The information aspect of optical metrology with topologically structured light
T. Grant, A. Vetlugin, E. Plum, K. F. MacDonald, N. I. Zheludev
Frontiers in Optics + Laser Science 2024, Denver, CO, USA, 23-26 Sept 2024 - Picometrology with topologically structured light: the information aspect
T. Grant, A. Vetlugin, E. Plum, K. F. MacDonald and N. I. Zheludev
18th International Congress on Artificial Materials for Novel Wave Phenomena (Metamaterials’2024), Crete, Greece, 9 – 14 Sept 2024 - (keynote) Picometre optical topological metrology of nanostructures at a million measurements per second
C-H. Chi, T. Grant, K. F. MacDonald and N. I. Zheludev
SPIE Optics + Photonics, San Diego, CA, USA, 18 – 22 Aug 2024 - (invited) Topological optical metrology of nanoscale objects with sub-atomic resolution and a rate of one million frames per second
C-H. Chi, T. Grant, K. F. MacDonald and N.I. Zheludev
E-MRS 2024 Spring Meeting, Strasbourg, France, 27 - 31 May 2024 - Picometer topological optical metrology at a million measurements per second
C-H. Chi, T. Grant, E. Plum, K. F. MacDonald, N. I. Zheludev
Nanometa 2024, Seefeld, Austria, 3 - 6 Jan 2024 - Lensless scanning super-resolved imaging of arbitrary shaped objects
S. Kurdiumov, T. Grant, J. Y. Ou, E. Plum, N. Papasimakis, K. F. MacDonald, and N. I. Zheludev
CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2023, Munich, Germany, 26 - 30 June 2023 - Nano-optical metrology with phase singularities
T. Grant, E. Plum, K. F. MacDonald, and N. I. Zheludev
CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2023, Munich, Germany, 26 - 30 June 2023