About Us
Walton Group photo October 2024
Group Members 2025-2026
Craig Hiley PDRA
Blesson Sunny PDRA
Jacob Oyarzabal Research Assistant
Gla Sinted Year 4 PhD student
Kayleigh Skidmore Year 4 PhD student (with Dr Katharina Brinkhert)
Noah Bryan Year 4 EngD student (with Dr Ivana Hasa)
Ahmad Hamadi Year 3 PhD student
Xiangting Xiao Year 2 PhD student
Gareth Hart Year 2 PhD student (1851 Industry Fellow based at Johnson Matthey)
Harry Brain Year 1 PhD student
Syamaidzar Year 1 PhD student
Haoxin Peng Year 1 PhD student
Ayo Omole Year 1 PhD student (with Dr John Low)
Alex Costello MSc-R student
Luke Glasson MChem project student
Tom Lumley MChem project student
Dr Helen Playford, Honorary Visiting Fellow, ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Previous Group Members
Dr Adam Hazelwood PhD 2000-2002
Dr Jeroen Spooren PhD 2001-2004
Dr Christopher Wright PhD 2002-2006
Dr Huaixin Yang Royal Society K.C. Wong Fellow 2002-2003
Dr Zoe Lethbridge PDRA 2003-2009
Dr Jennifer Williams PhD 2003-2007
Dr Uday Singh PDRA 2003-2004
Dr David Muñoz-Rojas Visiting PhD Student from ICMAB-CSIC, Barcelona, 2003 & 2004
Dr Dorota Majda British-Council Poland Research Fellow 2006
Dr Mahrez Amri PhD 2006-2010
Dr Deena Modeshia PhD 2006-2010
Dr Helen Playford MChem, PhD & Postdoctoral Fellow 2006-2013
Dr Robin Fisher PhD 2007-2011
Dr Agnieszka Węgrzyn British-Council Poland Research Fellow 2007
Dr Richard Darton PDRA 2008
Dr Kripasindhu Sardar PDRA & KTS Fellow with Johnson Matthey 2008-2011
Dr Alexis Munn PhD 2009-2013
Dr Hilni Harunsani PhD 2009-2013
Dr Anna Carnerup PDRA 2009-2010
Dr Craig Hiley MChem, PhD & Postdoctoral Fellow 2009-2015
Dr Matthew Breeze MChem and PhD 2009-2014
Dr Peter Dunne PDRA 2010-2012
Dr Luke Daniels, PhD 2011-2015
Magdalena Wojciechowska Visiting PhD Student from Jagiellonian University, Poland 2011
Yuanbin Qin Visiting PhD Student from Institute of Physics, CAS, Beijing 2011
Vickie Cheung AS-MIT MSc Student 2011
Dr David Burnett MChem, PhD and Postdoctoral Researcher 2011-2018
Dr Juliana Fonseca de Lima Visiting PhD student from Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil 2012 & FAPESP Research Fellow 2013-2014
Kinga Mlekodaj Visiting ERASMUS PhD Student from Jagiellonian University, Poland 2012-2013
Professor Kou-Lin Zhang Visiting Academic from Yangzhou University, China 2013
Akina Carey MSc 2013-2014
Dr Daniel Cook PhD 2013-2017
Dr Kenny Marshall PhD (joint with Dr Ross Hatton) 2013-2017
Dr Lucy Mcleod MChem and PhD student 2014-2019
Dr Alexander Dunn PhD Student 2014-2018
Dr Tom Scott MChem and PhD Student (joint with Professor Pat Unwin) 2014-2018
Dr James Crosland MChem, PhD student and Research Assistant 2015-2022
Dr Tom Chamberlain MChem, PhD student and Research Assistant 2016-2022
Dr Emily Corlett PhD student (MAS-CDT with Professor Steven Brown) 2016-2019
Professor Geraldo de Lima Visiting Professor from UFMG, Belo Horizonte, Brazil 2016-2017
Ralentri Pertiwi Visiting MSc Student from Universitas Indonesia 2017
Dr Aron Summer PhD Student 2017-2023
Dr James Annis MChem & PhD Student 2017-2023
Dr Keiron Noble-Vickrage PhD Student 2017- (with Prof. Emma Kendrick)
Dr Evé Wheeler-Jones PhD Student (with WMG, Dr Melanie Loveridge) 2018-2022
Dr Katie Everden PhD Student (with Engineering, Dr Volkan Degirmenci) 2018-2022
Marina Duarte Figueiredo Visiting MSc Student from UFMG, Brazil 2018
Dr Adetola Oladipo Visiting PhD Student from University of Ilorin, Nigeria 2018
Dr Lu Jia PhD Student 2018-2023
Dr Ehsan Ezzatpour Ghadim PhD Student 2018-2023
Dr Wilgner Lima da Silva PhD Student 2018-2023 (with Prof. Emma Kendrick)
Dr Alexandru Tănase PhD Student 2018-2023
Dr Jasmine Clayton MChem & PhD Student 2018-2023
Dr Baiwen Zhao MSc 2018-2019 and PhD 2019-2024
Dr Mark Crossman PhD 2019-2024 (AS-CDT)
Dr Joseph Gregory PhD 2019-2022 (joint with Prof. Evgeny Rebrov, School of Engineering)
Yasmine MSc Student with Universitas Indonesia 2019-2020
Dr Jinfang Zhang Visiting Academic from Jiangnan University, China, 2019-2020
Dr Aihua Chen Visiting Academic from Yancheng Institute of Technology, China, 2019-2020
Dr Katie Pickering PhD and Research Assistant 2020-2025
Dr Satarupa Das PhD 2021- 2024
Jacob Oyarzabal PhD 2021-2025
James Coe PhD student 2021-2025 (joint with Prof. Pat Unwin)
Dr Yong-Zhao Zhang Visiting academic, Hangzhou Vocational & Technical College 2021-2022
Dr Yulia Mariana Tesa Ayudia Putri Visiting PhD Student from Universitas Indonesia 2021-2022
Arnia Putri Pratama Visiting PhD Student from Universitas Indonesia 2021-2022
Nicole Mitchell, MSc Student 2021-2022
Adrián Enríquez Martínez Visiting PhD Student from University of Havana, Cuba 2022
Avneet Ramana MRes Student 2022-2023
Dr Catriona Crawford PDRA (joint with Mark Senn group) 2022 - 2025
Mr Ao Wang MSc 2023-2024
Dr Iterlandes Machado Junior Visiting PhD student, Federal University of Viçosa, 2024
Mr Alexandre Pauletto MRes student 2024-2024