Group Members

Name

e-mail

Professor Elena Besley
Group Leader

Dr. Ivan Derbenev
ERC postdoctoral research fellow

Dr. Harriet Åhlgren
ERC postdoctoral research fellow

Dr. Alexander Markevich
ERC postdoctoral research fellow

Dr. Stephen Skowron
ERC postdoctoral research fellow

Dr. Anton Nizovtsev
Leverhulme Trust postdoctoral research fellow

Dr. Eric Brazil Lindgren
Leverhulme Trust postdoctoral research fellow

Ms. Michelle Bound
PhD student Year 4

Mr. Jack Wadey
PhD student Year 3

Ms. Katherine Wickham
PhD student Year 2
joint with Dr. Nick Besley

Mr. Joseph Glover
PhD student Year 1

Mr. Joshua Baptiste
PhD student Year 1

Mr. Matthew Halstead
part time PhD student Year 1

Ms. Emma Daniels
MSci research student

RSC Theoretical Chemistry Group Conference 2016

Former Group Members

PhD Students

Mr. Eric Brazil Lindgren (2013-2017), PhD student; PhD awarded 2017.
Subsequent destination: postdoc in the E. Besley's group.

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: associate 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"