Patrick Parkinson - Physics · Strategy · Innovation
  • About
  • Essays
  • Research
  • Lab
  • Contact

Postdoc

A collection of 4 posts
Fail Fast, Learn Faster - Rethinking Talent Up-Skilling
Academia

Fail Fast, Learn Faster - Rethinking Talent Up-Skilling

I built a decentralized micro-fund to upskill 400+ postdocs. It funded great science, but data revealed broken incentives and AI vulnerabilities. Here is my post-mortem on failing fast in leadership, and redesigning a high-signal skills accelerator.
12 Mar 2026 3 min read
Kieran Ramaswami

Welcome to Kieran!

The group welcomes Dr Kieran Ramaswami as a new Postdoctoral Researcher. He joins from the Curry group in EEE in Manchester, where he led on spectroscopy and modelling of optoelectronic devices.
04 Nov 2024
InnovateUK

Postdoctoral Research Position available: Spectroscopy of Singly-Doped Colloidal Quantum Dots

A 12 month postdoctoral position is available on an InnovateUK funded project to produce singly-doped colloidal quantum dots for quantum technology applications. This position, led by Nanoco and Dr. David Binks (Manchester Physics) runs from March 2023-March 2024. For more details, or to apply, see https://www.jobs.manchester.ac.
28 Sep 2022
Au Revoir

Au Revoir to Stefan Skalsky

Congratulations and an “au revoir” to group PhD student Stefan Skalsky, who has accepted a postdoctoral position at the Lancaster University in the group of Qiandong Zhuang. He will work on mid-infared optoelectronics for sensing applications.
08 Apr 2021
Page 1 of 1
Patrick Parkinson - Physics · Strategy · Innovation © 2026
Powered by Ghost