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.
Abdul Wahab
Abdul Wahab is a visiting PhD student from the Politecnico di Torino, Italy, in collaboration with the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT). His research focuses on operando characterization of energy-related reactions and heterogeneous catalysis.
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).
Jessica Mould
Jessica joined the group in 2025 to study for a PhD in 2D material devices. She is looking at understanding the atomic level mechanisms that occur in memristive switching by transmission electron microscopy.
Dr Keqi Qu
Dr Keqi Qu holds a 2025 Marie-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship award. She is interested in understanding and designing eutectic electrolytes for better aqueous zinc ion batteries.
Previous group members
Dr Sapna SinhaLink opens in a new window (post-doc)
Dr Rongyu DengLink opens in a new window (visiting CSC PhD student)
Jing YuLink opens in a new window (visiting 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