About Us
Walton Group photo November 2025
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
Thiago Casagrande Visiting PhD student from USP Ribeirão Preto
Marcelo Cunha do Amaral Visiting PhD student from Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
Luke Glasson MChem project student
Tom Lumley MChem project student
Dr Helen Playford, Honorary Associate Professor, 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 2020-2025 and Research Assistant 2024-2025
Dr Satarupa Das PhD 2021- 2024
Jacob Oyarzabal PhD 2021-2025 and Research Assistant 2025-2026
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, Brazil 2024
Mr Alexandre Pauletto MRes student 2024-2024