Meet The Group
Research Staff
Dr Joshua Tully
Understanding and Exploiting Electrochemical Etch Mechanisms in Diamond and Graphitic Materials
Dr Xiangdong Xu
Correlative Electrochemical Multi-Microscopy of Energy Conversion and Storage Materials
Research interests: SECCM, electron microscopy.
Dr Rory Downham
Electrochemical Degradation of PFAS
Research interests: mass spectroscopy, environmental investigations.
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 spectrometry.
Dr Yuqing Wang
Operando Insight into Nanoscale Electrocatalytic Interfaces
Research interests: electrocatalysis, SECCM, EC-AFM, local EIS.
Dr Anjali John
Fabrication of Diamond Nanopores for Sensing Using Resistive Pulse and Quantum-Based Techniques
Research interests: electrochemistry, spectroelectrochemistry, electrochemical metal recovery, metal electrodeposition, BDD corrosion, nanopores, diamond membrane fabrication.
Dr Shayantan Chaudhuri
Single-Source Precursors for the Electrochemical Growth of Functional Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Semiconductors
Research interests: atomistic simulations, quantum chemistry, machine learning.
Dr Jishnu Pandamkulangara Kizhakkethil
Electrochemical Degradation of PFAS
Research interests: mass spectrometry, separation science applied to environmental monitoring and trace analysis.
Prof Fei Li
Visiting Professor from Xi'an Jiaotong University
Research interests: bioelectrochemistry, SECM, SICM, single cell electroanalysis, point-of-care testing.
PhD Students
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) Characterisation 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.
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 Altuğ
Electrochemical Multi-Microscopy of Energy Materials for Aqueous Batteries
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
Precision Synthesis using Nanoscale Electrochemistry
Research Interests: Material synthesis, analytical techniques and instrumentation, advanced scanning probe techniques.
Patrick Beard
Collaboration with Prof. Paul Wilson
Xinyu Guo
Visiting PhD Student from Donghua University
Spatially-Resolved Electrochemical Mapping of Activity and Selectivity at Single-Entity Level
Research interests: SECCM, dual-barrel hybrid probes.
Nurkhan Nurapin
TBA
Research interests: SECCM.
Amy McCafferty
Detection, Removal and Destruction of Per and Poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) from PFAS "Hot-Spots" in UK River Systems
Research interests: environmental monitoring, analytical and sustainable chemistry, mass spectrometry.
Charles Gunga
Developing Analytical Methods for Fluoride Detection during Electrochemical PFAS Degradation
Research interests: electrochemistry, analytical chemistry, measurement science.
Alannah Fox
Bubble Formation at Electrodes during Ammonia Electrocatalysis
Research interests: COMSOL.
Zhe Zhang
Electrochemical and Optical Multi-Microscopy on Electrochemical Interfaces for Energy Conversion
Research interests: SECCM, multi-microscopy, electrochemical interfaces.
Pavel Savchenko
Visiting PhD Student from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI)
Confined Electrochemistry in Nanoscale Environments studied by SECM, combined with Quantum-Chemical (DFT) Modelling of Electrochemical Processes
Research interests: nanoconfined electrochemistry, electrodeposition, electrocatalysis, SECM, density functional theory.
Masters Students
Ruby Croshaw
Development of Electrochemical Cells for the Production of Ozone
Research interests: electrochemistry, analytical chemistry, environmental monitoring.
Joyal Tomy
Synthesising Platinum Nanoparticles with Different Crystallographic Orientations for Electrocatalytic Applications
Research interests: electrochemistry, analytical chemistry, electrocatalysis.
Lukas Zotkin
Investigating Sustainable Organic Synthesis Methodologies Using Electrochemistry
Research interests: organic electrochemistry; synthetic, green, and analytical chemistry.
Emily Taylor
Electrochemical Degradation of PFAS in the presence of Activated Carbon
Research interests: PFAS, activated carbon, analytical chemistry.
URSS Students
Jessica Ward
Developing Low-Cost Sensors for 'Citizen Science' Monitoring of Nitrate in UK Rivers
Research interests: citizen science, 3D printing, environmental monitoring and remediation, water, PFAS.
Alumni