Group Members
Group Leader

Innovate UK postdoctoral research fellow

ERC postdoctoral research fellow

ERC postdoctoral research fellow

ERC postdoctoral research fellow

Leverhulme Trust postdoctoral research fellow

PhD student Year 4

PhD student Year 4


PhD student Year 2

PhD student Year 2


part time PhD student Year 1

MSci research student
Hathersage Moor, The Peak District. June 2016
Former Group Members
PhD Students
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. 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: postdoc 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
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"