Mr Mark Watson
Casual Academic & Casual Academic & Casual Research Assistant & Research Officer
School of Mathematics and Physics
Journal Articles
Watson, Mark, Stilgoe, Alexander, Favre-Bulle, Itia and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina (2025). Interrogating the ballistic regime in liquids with rotational optical tweezers. Optica, 12 (2), 246-254. doi: 10.1364/optica.549215
Stilgoe, Alexander B., Favre-Bulle, Itia A., Watson, Mark L., Gomez-Godinez, Veronica, Berns, Michael W., Preece, Daryl and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina (2024). Shining light in mechanobiology: optical tweezers, scissors, and beyond. ACS Photonics, 11 (3), 917-940. doi: 10.1021/acsphotonics.4c00064
Nieminen, Timo A., Watson, Mark Liam, Loke, Vincent L. Y., Stilgoe, Alexander and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina (2022). Spin–orbit interaction in non-paraxial Gaussian beams and the spin-only measurement of optical torque. Journal of Optics, 24 (12) 124001, 1-10. doi: 10.1088/2040-8986/ac9c6e
Watson, Mark L., Brown, Darren L., Stilgoe, Alexander B., Stow, Jennifer L. and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina (2022). Rotational optical tweezers for active microrheometry within living cells. Optica, 9 (9), 1066-1072. doi: 10.1364/optica.468713
Conference Papers
Watson, Mark L., Stilgoe, Alexander B., Favre-Bulle, Itia A. and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina (2024). High-bandwidth rotational optical tweezers for ultrafast and calibration-free viscometry in fluids. SPIE Nanoscience + Engineering, San Diego, CA United States, 18-23 August 2024. Bellingham, WA United States: SPIE. doi: 10.1117/12.3028345
Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina, Favre-Bulle, Itia A., Watson, Mark L., Grant, Patrick, Nieminen, Timo A. and Stilgoe, Alexander B. (2024). Sculpted light and all optically driven micro and nanomachines. SPIE Organic Photonics + Electronics, San Diego, CA United States, 18-23 August 2024. Bellingham, WA United States: SPIE. doi: 10.1117/12.3030461
Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina, Watson, Mark L., Favre-Bulle, Itia, Grant, Patrick, Nieminen, Timo A. and Stilgoe, Alexander B. (2023). Optical tweezers in mechanobiology. Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation XX: SPIE Nanoscience + Engineering, San Diego, CA United States, 20-25 August 2023. Bellingham, WA United States: SPIE. doi: 10.1117/12.2682972
Watson, Mark L., Stilgoe, Alexander B., Favre-Bulle, Itia A., Nieminen, Timo A. and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina (2023). Sensing inertia with rotational optical tweezers. SPIE Nanoscience + Engineering, San Diego, CA United States, 20-25 August 2023. Bellingham, WA United States: SPIE. doi: 10.1117/12.2677236
Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina, Armstrong, Declan, Watson, Mark, Favre-Bulle, Itia, Nieminen, Timo and Stilgoe, Alexander B. (2022). Optically driven nano and micromachines in optical tweezers. SPIE Organic Photonics + Electronics, San Diego, CA United States, 21-26 August 2022. Bellingham, WA United States: SPIE. doi: 10.1117/12.2639995