Local Organising Committee
Meet our Local Organising Committee. Our team consists of academic, professional services staff, postgraduate and undergraduate students based in the Department of Physics.
Professor Geetha Balakrishnan (She/Her)
Geetha has been at Warwick in our Superconductivity and Magnetism Group since 1986 and is one of the founding members of the Group. She is a world leader in the growth of single crystals of superconducting, magnetic and topological materials. She is currently a Professor and has led the successful EPSRC funded single crystal growth programme here for many years. Geetha enjoys both teaching as well as research and has trained a large of cohort of PhD students and Research Fellows from many international research groups.
Katherine Branch (She/Her)
Katherine is the Director of Operations in the department and is responsible for delivery of the non-academic services in the department. She has a background in research administration and has experience of organising events at all levels.
Dr Anne-Marie Broomhall (She/Her)
Anne-Marie is an Associate Professor in the Centre for Fusion, Space and Astrophysics. Her research focusses on helio- and asteroseismology, which use oscillations to study inside the Sun and other stars.
Dr Susan Burrows (She/Her)
Sue is an associate professor and senior tutor in the department. With a background in condensed matter physics and a sideline in delivering a science of music module, she leads the women and gender minorities in physics group and is active in making sure everyone is made to feel welcome.
Ally Caldecote (She/Her)
Ally is our Outreach Officer and a former secondary physics teacher. Ally's work focuses on working with students from Widening Participation backgrounds and runs our annual Christmas Lectures.
Dr Jon Duffy
Liz Hall (She/Her)
Liz works in our Student office and is the main contact for all our undergraduate students. She has worked closely with Ria on delivering the conference.
Professor Emma MacPherson (She/Her)
Emma leads the Terahertz research group where they are developing a new technique, using terahertz light, to evaluate skin conditions.
Dr Jessica Marshall (She/Her, They/Them)
Dr Jess Marshall alongside her academic background has worked in industry for 9 years during which she identified cemented tungsten carbide as a candidate radiation shielding material.
Her group, Radiation Dense Materials specializes in the development and testing of tungsten-based radiation-dense materials with the initial focus on next generation nuclear power. This work investigates basic properties of materials through to fabrication and testing of materials in nuclear-relevant conditions.
Dr Daniel Mayoh (He/Him)
Daniel is an assistant professor in the department. He specialises in crystal growth and the characterisation of materials with a wide range of physical properties, from superconductors and frustrated magnets to a variety of newly discovered exotic states of matter.
Dr Rebecca Milot
Rebecca is an associate professor in the Ultrafast and THz Photonics group. Her research focuses on understanding ultrafast processes in materials for solar energy generation.
Professor Mark Newton
Mark is our Head of Department and studied his Physics undergraduate degree at Warwick. His research looks at the properties of colour centre and dopant atoms in diamonds, developing sensors that exploit the extreme and unique combination of properties offered by diamond, and developing new techniques in magnetic and optical spectroscopy.
Mairi O'Brien (She/Her)
Mairi is a final year PhD student in our Astronomy and Astrophysics group, where she studies white dwarf stars. She is a member of the Astronomy groups' Equitea committee, and attended CUWiP in 2019.
Naomi Ogunkola (She/Her)
Naomi recently graduated with a BSc (Hons) in Physics with Astrophysics from the University of Warwick. Naomi is now working as a Research Assistant at the National Centre for Social Research, where she contributes to important projects in the Crime, Justice & Security team, including research on hooliganism and risk assessing far-right content online.
In 2022, Naomi attended CUWiP, which inspired her passion for encouraging women’s participation and networking in physics. She's excited to be part of the organising committee for CUWiP 2025 at Warwick, helping to create an inspiring and supportive environment for all attendees.
Dr Ingrid Pelisoli (She/Her)
Ingrid is a Royal Society University Research Fellow and an Assistant Professor at Warwick. Originally from Brazil, she could experience the sky with minimal light pollution and fell in love with astronomy from a young age. Her current research is focussed on white dwarf and hot subdwarf stars, in particular those in close binary systems.
Angelina Uttley (She/Her)
Angelina is a 2nd year Physics undergraduate student, hoping to pursue particle physics later in her studies. Her involvement in planning CUWiP 2025 stems from being selected as Physics Society's Women's Officer, recognising the importance of fostering a community within physics in which everyone can feel included and thrive. The clear gender imbalance within her cohort is what initially inspired her to run for this position. Hence, she is looking forward to experiencing her first ever CUWiP and is delighted to contribute to the organising.
Freya Watson (She/Her)
Freya is a final year PhD student in the functional electronic materials group, where she studies stress engineering and the effects on ferroelectric materials. She is also an EDI rep for the physics postgraduate committee.
Ria Wilson (She/Her)
Ria is the project officer in the department and has co-lead the delivery of CUWiP 2025. Before working in Physics, she managed international research projects and events focused on Global Health.