Meet The Group
Research Staff
Dr Joshua Tully
Understanding and Exploiting Electrochemical Etch Mechanisms in Diamond and Graphitic Materials
Dr Dimitrios Valavanis
Electrochemical Nanoprobes for Single-Entity Analysis
Research interests: SECCM, opto-electrochemistry, optical microscopy integration with SEPM.
Dr Xiangdong Xu
Correlative Electrochemical Multi-Microscopy of Energy Conversion and Storage Materials
Research interests: SECCM, electron microscopy.
Dr Dan Houghton
Combined Electrochemical & Electron Microscopy Experiments for Electrocatalyst Evaluation
Research interests: identical location atomic resolution, (S)TEM, electrocatalysis
Dr Rory Downham
Electrochemical Degradation of PFAS
Research interests: mass spectroscopy, environmental investigations.
Dr Nafiz Biswas
Optimisation of Boron Doped Diamond Electrodes for O2, pH, and CO2 Sensing in Medical and Environmental Settings
Research interests: electrochemistry (CV, SWV), electrode manufacture, surface modification via laser micromachining, FEM modelling.
Dr Raquel Rocha
Development of a Portable Electrochemical Sensor for Dissolved O2 Detection, using Boron Doped Diamond
Research interests: sensing, encironmental monitoring, electrochemistry.
Dr Lachlan Gaudin
Correlative Electrochemical and Structural Investigations of Next-Generation Catalysts
Research interests: electrochemistry, electron microscopy, spectroscopy, data science.
Dr Xuelei Pan
Coupling in situ Electrochemical Caracterisation Techniques with SECCM
Research interests: electrochemistry, synchrotron X-ray techniques, mass spectroscopy.
Dr Yuqing Wang
Operando Insight into Nanoscale Electrocatalytic Interfaces
Research interests: electrocatalysis, SECCM, EC-AFM, local EIS
Dr Pei Zhao
Atomic-Scale Imaging of Structural Evolution in Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion and Storage
Research interests: high resolution TEM, nanoparticles, electrocatalysis.
PhD Students
Joshua Magiera
Noah Al-Shamery
Joint PhD Student from Nanyang Technological University Singapore
Micropipette-Based Fabrication and Probing of Nature-Inspired Conducting Polymers
Research interests: additive manufacturing, conducting polymers, advanced SPM
Fengping Tang
Removal of Forever Chemicals Per- and Poly-Fluoroalkyl Substances From Aqueous Environments
Research interests: electrolysis, fluoride ion selective electrodes, mass spectroscopy.
Callum Crockford
Environmental Electrochemical-EPR: Development of Novel Methods for the Detection and Monitoring of Free Radicals to Optimise Pollutant Removal from Water Systems
Research interests: free radicals, electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy (EPR), analytical chemistry, 3D printing.
George Pryer-Freeman
Development of Advanced Processing Methods for Diamond.
Research interests: device fabrication, surface characterisation, chemical mechanical polishing, resistivity measurements for p-type diamond.
Calum Davies
Developing Low-Cost Instrumentation and Sensors to Enable Citizen Science
Research interests: nanomaterial composites, 3D printing, spectroscopy.
Georgina Rhodes
Boron Doped Diamond in High-Pressure High-Temperature Applications
Research interests: electrochemistry, SECCM, AFM.
Anesa Martin
Electrochemical Sensor Technology for Point-Of-Care Diagnostics
Research interests: electrochemistry, 3D printing.
Lincoln Summers
Investigation and Optimisation of Electrode Materials for Cochlear Implants
Research interests: neural stimulation electrodes, electrochemistry, EBSD, AFM.
Zhaofei Ge
Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) Characteristation Analysis
Anna Pushkareva Fazullina
Autonomous Functional Nanopipettes: a New Imaging Platform and the Intelligent Synthesis of Soft Nanobots
Research interests: SECCM, image analysis, computer vision, Python, LabVIEW.
Valdomiro Conceição
Visiting PhD Student from Universidade de São Paulo
Electrochemical Microsensors Based on Boron Doped Diamond and Carbon/Polymer Composites for Analysis in Aquatic Environments
Research interests: sensing, environmental monitoring, electrochemistry.
Charlie Theobald
Development and Field Testing of Low Cost, High Accuracy Sensors to Enable "Citizen Science" Monitoring of UK River Systems
Research interests: citizen science, 3D printing, environmental monitoring.
Tenzing Whitley
Evaluating Electrochemical Cell Design for Electrocatalysis Development
Research interests: 3D printing, hydrodynamic systems, electrocatalysis.
James Tofts
Finite Element Modelling of Electrochemical Systems
Research interests: FEM modelling, system design, COMSOL, electrochemistry.
Fatma Altug
Electrochemical Multi-Multicroscopy of Energy Materials for Aqueous Batteries
Research interests: TBA.
María José Fernández Menéndez
Collaboration with Prof. Yanling Tian (School of Engineering)
Mobile soft nanorobotics for nanomedicines
Kayleigh Skidmore
Operando X-ray Studies of Proton Exchange Membrane Electrocatalysts for Hydrogen Production
Research interests: X-ray diffraction, X-ray absorption spectroscopy, synchrotron techniques, in-situ studies, electrochemistry.
Bethanie Dean
Collaboration with Prof. Paul Wilson
TBA
Research interests: TBA.
Patrick Beard
Collaboration with Prof. Paul Wilson
TBA
Research interests: TBA.
Masters Students
Nurkhan Nurapin
TBA
Research interests: TBA.
Amy McCafferty
Developing Destruction and Sensing Technologies for PFAS at Environmentally Relevant Concentrations
Davis Bollon
TBA
Research interests: TBA.
Georgia Peplow
TBA
Research interests: TBA.
URSS Students
Alumni