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More than 300 people work within the Department of Materials as academic staff, support staff, research fellows, graduate and undergraduate students or visitors.

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Academic Staff

Professor H.E. Assender Acting Head of Department, Professor of Materials
Professor N. Grobert Associate Head of Department (Research), Professor of Materials
Professor T.J. Marrow Associate Head of Department (Teaching), James Martin Chair in Energy Materials
Professor P.S. Grant FREng Vesuvius Chair of Materials, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research)
Professor P.G. Bruce FRS  Wolfson Chair
Professor S. Islam  Professor of Materials Modelling
Professor S.C. Benjamin Professor of Quantum Technologies
Professor H. Bhaskaran Professor of Applied Nanomaterials 
Professor L. Bogani Professor of Molecular Nanomaterials
Professor M.R. Castell Professor of Materials
Professor C.R.M. Grovenor Professor of Materials
Professor A.I. Kirkland Professor of Materials
Professor S. Lozano-Perez George Kelley Professor of Materials
Professor M.P. Moody Professor of Materials
Professor P.D. Nellist FRS Professor of Materials
Professor R.C. Reed FREng Professor of Materials and Solid Mechanics
Professor J.M. Smith Professor of Photonic Materials and Devices
Professor S.C. Speller Professor of Materials Science
Professor R.I. Todd Professor of Materials
Professor A.J. Wilkinson Professor of Materials
Professor P.R. Wilshaw Professor of Materials
Professor D.E.J. Armstrong Associate Professor of Materials
Professor R.S. Bonilla Associate Professor of Materials
Professor J.T. Czernuszka Associate Professor of Materials
Professor M.L. Galano Associate Professor of Materials
Professor K.A.Q. O'Reilly Associate Professor of Materials
Professor M. Pasta Associate Professor of Materials
Professor E.K.R. Tarleton Associate Professor of Engineering Science
Professor A.A.R. Watt Associate Professor of Materials
Professor R.S. Weatherup Associate Professor of Materials
Professor J.R. Yates Associate Professor of Materials

Senior Fellows

Dr J. Gong EPSRC Research Fellow
Dr R. House Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow
Dr C. Johnston Senior Research Fellow
Dr A. Kareer David Clarke Research Fellow
Dr J.S. Kim Departmental Lecturer, Senior Staff Scientist in Aberration Corrected Electron Microscopy
Dr E. Liotti Departmental Lecturer in Processing of Advanced Materials
Dr R.J. Nicholls ESPRC Fellow in Materials for Energy Applications
Dr C. Patrick Departmental Lecturer, Senior Research Fellow in Materials Modelling
Dr J. Prentice Cooksey Early Career Teaching and Research Fellow at St Edmund Hall
Dr J. Thomas Senior Research Fellow
Dr N.P. Young Senior EM Research Scientist

Research Fellows

Dr P. Adamson
Dr D. Alexandropoulos
Dr C.S. Allen
Dr B. Armitage
Dr P.A.J. Bagot
Dr S. Bag
Dr E. Bjorklund
Dr J. Bu
Dr M. Carter
Dr F. Ceresola
Dr A. Chapman
Dr J. Chen
Dr Z. Chen
Dr E. Darnbrough
Dr Y. Deng
Dr S. De Sousa Coutinho
Dr P. Didwal
Dr N. Farmakidis
Dr F. Fedele
Dr J. Feldmann
Dr S. Feng
Miss N.A. Flanagan

 Dr C. Fletcher
Dr M. Forghani
Dr X. Gao
(Dr H. Gao)
Dr A. Gee
Dr J.S. Gibson
Dr J.S.K-L. Gibson
Dr Y. Gong
Dr M. Goodarzi
Dr H. Guo
Dr C. Gustiani
Dr I. Han
Dr G. He
Dr C. Hofer
Dr P. Holdway
Dr G.M. Hughes
Dr K. Hurlbutt
Dr B. Jenkins
Dr M. Juelsholt
Dr K. Jurkschat
Dr P.S. Karamched
Dr A. Kasdi
Dr S. Kaya
Dr S. Kim

Dr B. Koczor
Dr H-J. Lee
Dr M. Lefferts
Dr J. Li
Dr B. Liu
Dr F. Liu
Dr J. Liu
Dr A.C-M. Lui
Dr B. Maciejewska
Dr G.A.B.M. Matthews
Dr A. Moskalenko
Dr A. Mostaed
Dr T. Mousavi
Dr S. Narayanan
Dr T. Nimmo
Dr J. Park
Dr M.A. Perez Osorio
Dr A. Poletayev
Dr J. Prentice
Dr G. Rees
Dr Z. Ren
Dr J. Ramirez Gonzalez

Dr K. Sada
Dr C.J. Salter
Dr A. Sheader
Dr M. Slota
Dr W. Song
Dr D. Spencer Jolly
Dr. J. Su
Dr Y. Sun
Dr J. Swallow
Dr Y. Tang
Dr S. Utada
Dr M. Wang
Dr L. Wang
Dr S. Wheeler
Dr M. Wright
Dr S. Yang
Dr X. Yao
Dr S. Zankowski
Dr P. Zarabadi-Poor
Dr W. Zhou

Postgraduate Students

Adams, Kirk
Agarwal, Varnika
Aggarwal, Kushagra
Aggarwal, Samarth
Akinwale, Anthony
Al-Dhahir, Isabel
Ali, Utku Emre
Almarri, Shatha
Alshangiti, Omar
Andrews, Douglas
An, Lijin
Aspinall, Jack
Balaji, Divya
Ballentine, John
Bauer, Bianca
Bechteler, Christian
Bentin, Ella
Binford, Trevor
Boyd, Gregory
Bromage, Bruce
Callow, Anne
Carter, Megan
Cattermull, John
Celis garza, Daniel
Chang, Yide
Chan, Hon Sang
Charlesworth, Pedr
Charlton, Jodie
Chart, Yvonne
Chau, Oi
Cheng, Qian
Cheng, Tangsheng
Chen, Guangzhao
Cheng, Xingrui
Chen, Hewen
Chen, Jingyan
Chen, Jun
Chen, Runze
Chen, Tuoran
Choudhury, Tahmid
Craig, David
Cully, John
Dai, Liwei
Darminto, Brigita
Dean, Ava
Dekker, Emily
De Meyere, Robin
Dewar, Daniel
Dexter, Jonathan
Dhir, Shobhan
Ding, Shenghuan
Ding, Zhiyuan
Doerrer, Christopher
Dong, Shiling
Duan, Mengqi
Du, Mi
Epstein, Boruch
Evans, Benjamin
Famelton, James
Farmakidis, Nikolaos
Favell Gallifant, Cameron
Fawdon, Jack
Fletcher, Charles
Follows, Frederick
Forssberg, Axel
Förstermann, Dominic
Fraser, Michael
Fried, Jasper
Galatolo, Giulia
Gao, Zilin

Ge, Tairu
Gezmis, Hazal
Ghoussoub, Joseph
Gibson, Andrew
Ginnis, Thomas
Goh, Matthew
Gong, Chen
Goode, Michael
Gregory, Daniel
Griffiths, Benjamin
Grishchenko, Georgy
Gu, Fubiao
Guo, Zonghao
Guven, Muslum
Halloran, Claire
Hao, Botao
Hedley, Emma
He, Yuhan
Hickie, Joseph
Hoque, Shahnaz
Hortelano Roig, Daniel
Hou, Linlin
Huang, Kairan
Huang, Po-Yuan
Huang, Xinrui
Huang, Zhijie
Hu, Bingkun
Hurlbutt, Kevin
Iftekhar, Sonia
Iliffe, William
Ishmael, Shazeaa
Jagger, Ben
Jaques, Samuel
Jenkins, Max
Jim, Bethany
Jin, Ruining
Jnane, Hamza
Jones, Elizabeth
Jones, Gareth
Jones, Hannah
Jones, Megan
Jones, Tyson
Kandolf, Nikolaus
Karadag, Ilayda
Kerr, Robert
Kirkpatrick, Andrew
Klups, Przemyslaw
Kong, Fanmiao
Krüger, Marta
Kubota, Yasuhiro
Kwok, Daniel
Lall, Deep
Laurence, Robin
Lee, June
Lee, Mu-Huan
Lee, Ping-Yuan
Lennon, Dominic
Liang, Yi
Limkaichong, Justin
Lin, Mengjiang
Linden, Yatir
Lister, Abigail
Liu, Donghao
Liu, Houzhi
Liu, Tongshan
Liu, Xinlei
Li, Weishuo
Li, Xuewei
Li, Yu
Li, Zixuan
Lodi, Alessandro
Lombardi, Federico

Lubbad, Saleem
Luo, Hui
Luo, Xiaonan
Lu, Qingchuan
Lu, Yang
Magazzeni, Christopher
Mai, Zhin
Malmir, Kiana
Marie, John-Joseph
Ma, Zhaoying
McGurty, Dillon
McNab, Shona
Meier, Martin
Meister, Richard
Melvin, Dominic
Metzler, Michael
Mikallou, Antonios
Milan, Emily
Milne, Tara
Min, Xue
Mohamed, Abdalrhaman
Mohd Yusof, Hanis Ayuni
Mothatego, Thapelo
Moya, Arthur
Nabilla, Sasza
Nauriyal, Shivansh
Ng, Kai
Ning, Ziyang
Niu, Xinya
Olbrich, Lorenz
Orbell, Sebastian
O'Sullivan, Eoin
O'Sullivan, John
Outeiral Rubiera, Carlos
Paetsch, Claire
Pateman, Alexander
Payne, Bartholomew
Pearson, Sebastian
Perera, Johann
Perry, Emma
Phelan, Conor
Pi, Liquan
Pirzada, Talha
Potter, Harry
Pujilaksono, Lazuardi
Pu, Shengda
Qian, Jiangrui
Qi, Rui
Qu, Chenguang
Quijano velasco, Pablo
Ramesh, Namrata
Rasheed, Aatif
Rattew, Arthur
Ren, Yanru
Richardson, Ewan
Rivers, Kieran
Roberts, Edward
Romain, Pierre
Rychetsky, Marek
Samani, Keivan
Saravanan, Naganand
Scales, Robert
Schart, Maximilian
Schofield, Ryan
Schuff, Jonas
Severin, Brandon
Shao, Ziyue
Shaw, Eleanor
Sheader, Amy
Shen, Chen

Shi, Yifu
Shu, Ruiying
Shu, Sisheng
Shu, Yu
Siegel, Adam
Singh, Jasper
Singh, Jaspreet
Siniscalchi, Marco
Sode, James
Soh, Jia Hao Eugene
Sopp, Simen
Spencer Jolly, Dominic
Srinivasan, Nayantara
Strikis, Armands
Strutt, Victoria
Sun, Yalun
Su, Xiao
Tang, Peng
Tang, Yongxiang
Tan, James You Sian
Tannesia, Leonhard
Tao, Xudong
Tebbutt, George
Telford, Sean
Toftevaag, Haavard
Towell, Sophie
Treder, Kevin
Tsang, Ming-Yee
Turrell, Stephen
Tyagi, Sparsh
Ungermann, Katharina
Usuki, Hirokazu
Van Straaten, Barnaby
Vukši¿, Marin
Wang, Liren
Wang, Yu
Wang, Yue
Warman, Philippa
Watson, Szilvia
Wen, Yi
Wheatley, Laura
Wheeler, Samuel
Whybrow, Rory
Williamson, Marcus
Wombell, William
Wu, Zheng
Xiong, Yi
Xu, Hang
Xu, Yang
Xu, Zhicheng
Yang, Tianjia
Yang, Xinze
Yin, Yumeng
Young, Bradley
Yuan, Yi
Yu, Mingzhe
Zagura, Petr
Zhang, Jieming
Zhang, Minyi
Zhang, Qianyang
Zhang, Ruomu
Zhang, Shengming
Zhang, Yi
Zhang, Zheng
Zhang, Zhouran
Zhao, Yingrui
Zheng, Qianfang
Zhong, Zhiyang
Zhu, Yuhan
Zillhardt, Thomas
Zor, Ceren

Undergraduate Students ( 4th Year 2021-2022 )

Antoine-Donatein, Daniel
Bricknell, Thomas
Chapman, Harry
Curtis-Smith, Chloe
Danks, Emily
Dong, Jinhao
Edison, Tobias
Fakokunde, Oluwafemi
Flatters, Thomas
Gautam, Prisma

Graca-jones, Stephen
Hardwick, Isobel
Harper, Zoe
Hoy, Stephen
Hurst, Camilla
Kim, Ingon
Krefting, Saskia
Lawal, Kehinde
Lee, Yuhang
Leung, Mong

Lin, Yingsi
Makower, Louis
McCarthy, Shane
Misakova, Simona
Papapavlou, Mariella
Peachey, Dominic
Phagura, Rajun
Phutrakul, Chanisa
Sabu, Davidson
Stening, Rowena

Suttle, Adam
Sutton, Lewis
Vudathu, Veera
Wall, Maya
Watt, Pak Hei Nicholas
Withyman, Charlotte
Wright, Louis
Yang, Qinxuan
Yan, Karen
Yuan, Ziyi
Yu, Hao

Administration

Mr I. Bishop Head of Administration and Finance
Mr T.P. McAree Finance Manager
Dr J.E. Roberts Research Finance Manager
Ms P.J. Moss Education Manager
Dr A.O. Taylor Director of Graduate Studies & UG Admissions Coordinator
Miss C Baggiolini HR Manager
Mr L.J. Chorley Buildings and Facilities Manager
Dr P.J. Warren IT Manager

 

Support Staff

Mr C.A-B. Akinola
(Mrs K. Bamford)
Dr C.M. Barker
Mrs M.L. Beckett
Ms M. Bennett
(Mr S. Boyce)
Mrs R.L. Bradford
Miss I Brikaite
Mr A.J. Brown
Mrs L. Bywater
Mr N. Cadman
Ms J. Carlin
Dr R.I. Chakalova
Mr G. Cook

Miss H. Cotterill
Mrs L.E. Curson
Ms K.L. Davies
Ms J. Dsouza
Mr F. Dunleavey
(Mr P.J.G. Flaxman)
Mrs C.O. Foldbjerg Holdway
Dr I. Griffiths
Ms C. Hadlow
Miss T.K. Haydon
Mrs S. Ijada
Ms M. Jackson
Mrs A.J. Jewitt

Mrs B. Kaur
Mrs J.A. Kent
Ms L.I. Laird
Ms J. Lopusinska
Dr L. Mapledoram
Ms F. McGowan
Ms P. Mehta*
Miss F. Mellis*
Mr R. Morris
Mrs J. Page
Mrs D. Passmore
Mr P. Pattinson
Mrs S.J. Pearce

Mr A. Pugh
Mr G.J. Ring
Mr R.J. Saunders
Mrs G. Sewell
Mr M. Stanley
Mr I.J. Sutton
Ms E. Thornton
Dr K. Towers
Miss E. Townsend
Mr R.W. Turner
Mr R.C. Vincent
Mr A.D. Wheeler
Dr B. Widell*
Mr G.A. Wyatt

Senior Visitors

Professor B. Cantor CBE Visiting Professor, University of Bradford
Professor R. Drautz Visiting Professor, ICAMS/Ruhr-University Bochum
Professor S.L. Dudarev Visiting Professor, Culham Centre for Fusion Energy
Professor J.B. Pethica FRS Visiting Professor, Trinity College Dublin
   
Professor Sir Richard Brook OBE, FREng Emeritus Professor
Professor Andrew Briggs Emeritus Professor
Professor Sir Peter Hirsch FRS Emeritus Professor
Professor G.D.W. Smith FRS Emeritus Professor
Professor J.M. Sykes Emeritus Professor
Professor M.J. Whelan FRS Emeritus Professor
   
Dr P. Flewitt Senior Visiting Fellow (Magnox Electric Ltd / Bristol University)
Dr M.R. Gilbert Senior Visiting Fellow (CCFE)
Mr Stephen Heidari-Robinson Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in Energy Technology and Policy
Dr Duc Nguyen-Manh Senior Visiting Research Fellow (CCFE)
Prof. J. Titchmarsh Senior Visiting Research Fellow

Academic Visitors - updated 2022/05/19

Dr F. Adziman, Oxmet Technologies Ltd. UK
Dr P. Altermatt, Trina Solar - SKL, China
Dr N. Ares, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, UK
Dr J.R. Askew, AWE Plc, UK
Dr F.E. Audebert, Buenos Aires University, Argentina
Dr M. Auger, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Dr D. Barba Cancho, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
Dr A. Basch, Upper Austrian University of Applied Science, Austria
Prof. R.H. Bradley, Robert Gordon University, UK
Prof. A. Cerezo, Department of Materials, University of Oxford, UK
Dr A. Chakraborty, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Dr V. Cheel, Department of Materials, University of Oxford, UK
Dr L. Chen,Xiamen University, China
Dr P. Chen, University of Sheffield, UK
Dr Y. Chen, University of Bath, UK
Dr L. Clark, University of Leeds, UK
Dr S. Coles, University of Bath, UK
Dr D. Collins, University of Birmingham, UK,
Dr W. Cui, University of Manchester, UK
Dr L. Daly, University of Glasgow, UK
Dr M. Danaie, Diamond Light Source, UK
Dr F. Dillon, Department of Materials, University of Oxford, UK
Dr B. Dong, A*Star Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore
Dr P. Earp, Culham Science Centre, UK
Prof. P. Flewitt, University of Bristol, UK
Dr H. Gardner, UKAEA, UK
Prof. F. Giustino, University of Texas, USA
Dr Yilun Gong, Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung, Germany
Dr P. Gopon, Department of Earth Sciences
Dr M.J. Gorley, Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, UK
Dr J. Haley, Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, UK
Dr D. Haley, Datamine Software, UK
Dr P. Hamer, University of New South Wales, Australia
Dr C.D. Hardie, Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, UK
Mr S. Heidari-Robinson, UK
Dr C. Huang, King's College London, UK
Dr C. Huang, Rosalind Franklin Institute, UK
Dr J.M. Hyde, Wolfson College, Oxford, UK
Dr D. Isakov, WMG, University of Warwick, UK
Mr X. Jin, Xi'an Jiaotong University. P.R. China
Dr L. Jones, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
Dr M. Jordan, National Nuclear Laboratory, UK
Dr S. Kuksenko, UKAEA, UK
Dr K. Kumamoto, Earth Sciences
Dr E. Laird, University of Lancaster, UK
Prof. C. Lambert, University of Lancaster, UK
Dr B-S. Li, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Taiwan
Dr E. Liberti, Diamond Lightsource, UK
Dr J. Lim, CCFE, UK
Dr D. Liu, Bristol University, UK
Dr X. Liu, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, PR China
Dr A. London, UKAEA
Dr T. Martin, Bristol University, UK
Prof G. McCartney, University of Nottingham, UK
Dr K. McColl, University of Bath, UK
Prof D. McComb, Ohio State University, USA
Dr J. Moghal, Oxford Advanced Surfaces, UK
Prof J. Murphy, University of Warwick, UK
Dr S. Myhra, Griffith University, Australia
Dr S. Newbury, Wiliams Advanced Engineering Ltd.
Dr C. Norenberg, Department of Materials, University of Oxford, UK
Miss M. O'Connor, The Arts Council of Ireland
Dr C. Panwisawas, University of Leicester, UK
Dr J. Parkhurst, The Rosalind Franklin Institute, UK
Dr Z. Peng, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, P.R. China
Prof. K. Porfyrakis, University of Greenwich, UK
Dr J. Prentice, St Edmund Hall
Dr A. Pugh, Bath University, UK
Dr N. Pugno, Universita di Trento, Italy
Miss H. Richards, University of Bath, UK
Dr A. Robertson, University of Warwick, UK
Dr L. Saucedo Mora, Eduardo Institute for Construction Science, Spain
Dr H. Shang, Interface Analysis Center, University of Bristol, UK
Mrs J. Shaw, Imperial College London, UK
Dr K. Shenton, STFC, UK
Dr M. Shibata, Nissan Motor Co. Ltd., Japan
Dr S. Singh, Koba Institutional Area, India
Dr J. Singh, US Air Force, USA
Dr T. Slater, Diamond Light Source, UK
Dr K. Song, Korea Institute of Materials Science, Korea
Dr S. Sturniolo, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK
Dr P. Styman, CCFE, UK
Dr F. Tang, University of Cambridge, UK
Dr M. Telling,Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK
Dr L. Toller-Nordstrom, Sweden
Dr R. Torres Cavanillas, Universitat de València, Spain
Dr I. Tzanakis, Brunel University London (BCAST), UK
Prof P. Wang, Nanjing University, PR China
Dr J.H. Warner, University of Texas, USA
Dr P-D. Warren, Pilkington plc, UK
Dr Q. Yang, Department of Materials, University of Oxford, UK
Dr H. Yu, Uppsala University, Sweden
Dr S. Yu, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
Dr Y. Zaychuk, UKAEA, UK
Dr Z. Zhang, EMAT - University of Antwerp, Belgium

Visiting Recognised Students - updated 2022/03/28

Mr D. Wilkinson, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany
Mr M. Lagnoni, Universita di Pisa, Italy