Members of the group
Current group members
Zixuan Li
Zixuan Li joined Dr Alex Robertson’s group in October 2021 as a PhD student under the co-supervision of Prof. Peter Bruce. Her research project focuses on exploring the mechanisms inhibiting reversible cycling of multivalent electrolytes by in-situ electron microscopy.
Robert Wells
Rob is a PhD student who joined the group in October 2022. His research focuses on the study of 2D materials. In particular, the use of in-operando TEM to study memristor devices made from monolayers of Molybdenum Disulphide.
Dr Yi Yuan
Yi is now working as a postdoc, where her research project focuses on materials processes via in-situ electron microscopy, in particular electrochemical reactions.
Jing Yu
Jing Yu is a visiting PhD student from Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB), supervised by Prof Jordi Arbiol and Prof Andreu Cabot, who joined Alex Robertson’s group in July 2025. Her research is on catalysts for lithium sulfur batteries.
Dr Rongrong Qi
Rongrong completed her PhD at the University of Manchester, and is now a postdoctoral researcher working on ferroelectric 2D materials using in situ transmission electron microscopy.
Dr Harriet Nevison-Andrews
Harriet is a postdoctoral researcher working on two-dimensional material devices for transmission electron microscopy. She completed her PhD at Manchester.
Oscar Long
Oscar joined the group as a PhD student in October 2024. His project is looking at the use of 2D materials to aid the study of liquids and electrochemistry by TEM.
Gianluca Seaford
Luca is a PhD student at the CDT for Modelling Heterogeneous Systems (HetSys), lead supervised by Prof Nicholas Hine, focusing on simulating nucleation and electrochemical processes via machine-learned interatomic potentials (MLIPs).
Previous group members
Dr Sapna SinhaLink opens in a new window (post-doc)
Dr Rongyu Deng (visiting CSC PhD student)
Dr Shengda D. PuLink opens in a new window (PhD student)
Dr Chen GongLink opens in a new window (PhD student)
Previous undergraduate project students
MPhys project students: Tristan McCarthy, Thomas Brimacombe, Sam Featherstone, Fynn Mitchell, Luis Munn, Connor Abraham
BSc project students: Debby Bakare, Vinay Varghese, Harri Morgan, Theo Teasdale
URSS summer projectLink opens in a new window: Michael Titchener, Frances Hoooker, Khush Shah