Dr Emrys W. Evans

Emrys is a Royal Society University Research Fellow and Proleptic Senior Lecturer at Swansea University. His work at the boundary of chemistry and physics explores the interplay between light and electron spin in molecules. Scientific achievements include developing concepts for higher efficiency organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) and novel spin-optical properties of molecular quantum materials. In 2021 he was awarded the Dillwyn Medal for STEMM from the Learned Society of Wales. In 2025 he received the Materials Chemistry Early Career Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry. Emrys has been awarded >£3M funding as Principal Investigator from the Leverhulme Trust, EPSRC and Royal Society.

Awards

2025 Royal Society of Chemistry, Materials Chemistry Early Career Prize

2022 Swansea University, Research & Innovation Rising Star

2021 Learned Society of Wales, Dillwyn Medal for STEMM

Invited Talks

2025 Telluride Science Center, Telluride, USA

2025 Optical Probes, Fukuoka, Japan

2024 MRS Fall, Boston, USA

2024 Jilin University, Chemistry Department Seminar, London, UK

2024 Spin Chemistry Meeting, Kobe, Japan

2024 ICSM, Dresden, Germany

2024 University of Heidelberg, Department Seminar, Heidelberg, Germany

2024 Royal Society Meeting: Excitonic Frontiers, London, UK

2024 University of Rennes, Chemistry Department Seminar, Rennes, France

2024 Spin Meeting, Manchester, UK

2023 Queen Mary University London Department Seminar, London, UK

2023 Cardiff University Department Seminar, London, UK

2023 Optical Probes, Como, Italy

2023 SPIE: Optics + Photonics, San Diego, USA

2023 Display Week, Los Angeles, USA

2022 Spin Chemistry Meeting, Evanston, USA

2022 Future Leaders Network on Energy Harvesting, Warwick, UK

2022 RSC: Electron Spin Resonance Spectroscopy Group, St Andrews, UK

2021 Solar Technologies Go Hybrid (SOLTECH), Germany (online)

2021 RSC: Materials Group, UK (online)

2020 RSC: Photochemistry and Photophysics Group Meeting, UK (online)

2020 Furman University Department Seminar, Greenville, USA  (online)