Group Members
Group Leader
Innovate UK postdoctoral research fellow
Emil Aaltosen säätiö scholarship
EPSRC postdoctoral research fellow
Leverhulme Trust postdoctoral research fellow
PhD student Year 3
PhD student Year 3
Part-time PhD student Year 3
PhD student Year 1
MSci student
MSci student
Bologna, Italy. September 2017
Former Group Members
PhD Students
Mr. Jack Wadey (2013-2018), PhD student; PhD awarded 2018.
Ms. Michelle Bound (2013-2018), PhD student; PhD awarded 2018.
Mr. Eric Brazil Lindgren (2013-2017), PhD student; PhD awarded 2017.
Subsequent destination: postdoc in the Stamm's group, Department of Mathematics, RWTH Aachen University, Germany.
Mr. Stephen Skowron (2012-2016), PhD student; PhD awarded 2016.
Subsequent destination: postdoc in the E. Besley's group.
Mr. Gerardo Raggi (2011-2015), PhD student; PhD awarded 2015.
Subsequent destination: postdoc at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Department of Applied Physics.
Mr. Adriano Santana Sanchez (2009-2014), PhD student; PhD awarded 2014.
Ms. Evgeniya Volkova (2010-2013), PhD student.
Postdoctoral Fellows
Dr. Alexander Markevich (2013-2018), postdoc.
Subsequent destination: postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Toma Susi at the University of Vienna, Austria
Dr. Matteo Baldoni (2013-2017), postdoc.
Subsequent destination: scientific researcher, ISMN CNR Bologna, Italy
Dr. Matthew Lennox (2014-2016), postdoc.
Subsequent destination: assistant professor/lecturer in Chemical Engineering, University of Bath, UK
Dr. Ho-Kei Chan (2013-2015), postdoc.
Subsequent destination: assistant professor, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China
Dr. Mikhail Suyetin (2011-2014), postdoc.
Subsequent destination: research scientist, KAUST, Saudi Arabia
Dr. Navaratnarajah Kuganathan (2010-2011), postdoc.
Subsequent destination: postdoctoral fellow at UCL, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Dr. Tim Lillestolen (2009-2010), postdoc.
MSci Research Project Students
The titles of MSci research projects untertaken over the years in the group can be found here.Summer Project Students
Ms. Abigail Miller (2018)
joint with Prof. Tony Stace (Chemistry)
Project: "Stability and fragmentation of multiply charged fullerene clusters"
Ms. Isabel Cooley (2018)
joint with Prof. Tony Stace (Chemistry)
Project: "Molecular dynamics simulations of ice particles aggregation"
Mr. Matthew Evans (2013), University of Manchester
Project: "Dense packing of fullerenes"
Ms. Alice Henley (2013)
Project: "Computational screening of functional groups for methane capture via weak hydrogen bonding in MOFs"
Mr. Eliot Jones (2012)
joint with Prof. Tony Stace (Chemistry) and Dr. Richard Hill (Physics)
Project: "Using magnetic levitation to measure interactions between macroscopic particles"