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Around 750 people work within the Department of Materials as academic staff, support staff, research fellows, graduate and undergraduate students or visitors.

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Professor P.D. Nellist FRS Head of Department, Professor of Materials
Professor T.J. Marrow Associate Head of Department (Teaching), James Martin Chair in Energy Materials
Professor J. Smith Associate Head of Department (Infrastructure), Professor of Photonic Materials and Devices
Professor P.S. Grant FREng Vesuvius Chair of Materials, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research)
Professor Sir P.G. Bruce FRS  Wolfson Chair
Professor M.S. Islam  Professor of Materials Modelling
Professor D.E.J. Armstrong Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Professor H.E. Assender Professor of Materials
Professor S.C. Benjamin Professor of Quantum Technologies
Professor H. Bhaskaran FREng Professor of Applied Nanomaterials, Associate Head of Division (Research)
Professor M.R. Castell Professor of Materials, Associate Head of Division (Taught Degrees)
Professor N. Grobert Professor of Materials
Professor A.I. Kirkland Professor of Materials
Professor S. Lozano-Perez George Kelley Professor of Materials
Professor M. Pasta Professor of Applied Electrochemistry
Professor R.C. Reed FREng Professor of Materials and Solid Mechanics
Professor S.C. Speller Professor of Materials Science
Professor R.S. Weatherup Professor of Energy Materials
Professor A.J. Wilkinson Professor of Materials
Professor J. R. Yates Professor of Materials Modelling
Professor R.S. Bonilla Associate Professor of Materials
Professor M.L. Galano Associate Professor of Materials
Professor R. House Associate Professor of Materials
Professor K. Marquardt Associate Professor of Materials
Professor R. J. Nicholls Associate Professor of Materials
Professor K.A.Q. O'Reilly Associate Professor of Materials
Professor H.L. Stern Associate Professor of Materials
Professor E.K.R. Tarleton Associate Professor of Engineering Science
Professor A.A.R. Watt Associate Professor of Materials
Dr C. Barker Daphne Jackson Research Fellow
Dr A. Chakraborty Royal Society Newton International Fellow
Dr N. Farmakidis Departmental Lecturer in Advanced Nanoscale Engineering
Dr Z. Goodwin Glasstone Research Fellow in Materials and Extraordinary Junior Research Fellow in Materials of The Queen’s College
Dr J. Grune Royal Commission for the Exhibition 1851 Research Fellow
Dr A. Kareer David Clarke Research Fellow
Dr J. Kim Departmental Lecturer in Aberration Corrected Transmission Electron Microscopy
Dr E. Liotti Departmental Lecturer in Processing of Advanced Materials
Dr G. Mazur Departmental Lecturer in Materials for Quantum Technologies
Dr C. Ben Mahmoud Departmental Lecturer in Materials Modelling
Dr M. Wright Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr T. Whitfield Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow
Dr C. Allen Senior Research Staff, ePSIC Principal Scientist
Dr P. Bagot Senior Atom Probe Scientist
Dr C. Johnston Senior Research Staff, OMCS Manager
Prof N. P. Young Associate Professor, David Cockayne Centre for Electron Microscopy

Dr P. Adamson
Dr A. Aggarwal
Dr J. Aspinall
Miss A. Austin
Dr D. Biswas
Dr E. Bjorklund
Dr J. Bu
Dr M. Burton
Dr M. Cai
Dr W. Chan
Dr J. Chen
Dr T. Chen
Dr Z. Chen
Dr P. Cong
Dr E. Darnbrough
Dr S. De Sousa Coutinho
Dr M. Du
Dr S. Falco*
Dr M. Forghani
Dr N. Gollapally

Dr M. Goode
Dr J. Gutierrez
Mr M. Hills
Dr T.C.D. Hobson
Dr C. Hofer
Dr X. Hou
Dr B. Hu
Dr Z. Huang
Dr G.M. Hughes
Dr B. Jenkins
Dr M. Jenkins
Mr N. Joinson
Dr L. Jones
Dr J. Jordan
Dr M. Jung
Dr K. Jurkschat
Dr J. Kang
Dr P. Karamched
Dr R. Kerr
Dr T. Kim

Dr J. Lee
Dr J. Lewis
Dr W. Li
Dr L. Liu
Dr A.C-M. Lui
Dr B. Maciejewska
Dr G. Martinez Alanis
Dr N. Mason
Dr G.A.B.M. Matthews
Dr K. McColl
Dr D. Melvin
Dr R. Messias
Dr T. Mitchell
Dr F. Mocanu
Dr J. O'Sullivan
Dr S. Olakkil Veedu
Dr A. Ortega Gomez
Dr S. Pazhaniswamy
Dr A. Poletayev
Dr G. Rees
Dr Z. Ren

Dr C.J. Salter
Dr R. Schofield
Dr C. Sherwin
Dr P. Shrestha
Dr M. Slota
Dr W. Song
Dr Y. Sun
Dr J. Swallow
Dr Y. Tan
Dr M. Tsang
Dr Vikram
Dr J. Whaley-Baldwin
Dr L. Wang
Dr M. Wang
Dr Z. Wang
Dr M. Wright
Dr S. Zankowski
Dr L. Zhou
Dr L. Zhu

Mrs F. Haswell-Martin Head of Administration and Finance
Mrs A. Lintern Head of Finance
Mrs S. Edmunds-Ribierre HR Manager
Mr L.J. Chorley Buildings and Facilities Manager
Dr P.J. Warren IT Manager
Dr J. Scott Departmental Safety Officer
Ms H. Cotterill Outreach Manager
Mr L. Douglas Deputy Head of Finance
Dr A. Walters Research Facilitator

Administrative Support Staff

(Mrs K. Bamford)
(Mr L. Bennett)
Mrs R.L. Bradford
Mrs T. Brett
(Miss H. Brooks)
Mrs L. Bywater
Mr N. Cadman
Ms K.L. Davies
Mrs J. D'Souza

(Ms G. de Villiers)
Ms G Exley
(Mr S Forster)
(Mr A French)
Mr T. Heath
Mrs S. Ijada
Miss S. King
Ms L.I. Laird
Mr J. Locke

Ms J. Lopusinska
Ms M. Manaloto*
Dr L. Mapledoram
Mr T. McAree
Mr R. Morris
(Mr T Morrison)
Dr S. Najjar
Miss S. Nyagua

Miss G. Parsons
Mrs S.J. Pearce
Mr Z. Qu
Dr H. Rajantie
Mrs G. Sewell
(Mr A. Shelton)
(Mr I.J. Sutton)
(Mr G. Taylor)
Mr S. Thomas-Burt

Technical Support Staff 

Mr M.T. Ansari
(Mr S. Boyce)
Miss I Brikaite
Mr A.J. Brown
Mr J. Camilo Gutierrez

Dr R.I. Chakalova
Mr G. Cook
Dr H. Cronwright
Mr D. DeBrincat
Mr F. Dunleavey

Mr S. Murray-Smith
Dr Y. Ong*
Mrs D. Passmore
Mr P. Pattinson
Mr M. Stanley

Mr R.W. Turner
Mr A.D. Wheeler
Mr G.A. Wyatt

 

Dr P Altermatt Visiting Professor, Trina Solar - SKL, China
Professor B. Cantor CBE, FRS FREng Visiting Professor, Brunel University
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
Dr A. Sebastian Visiting Professor, IBM Research Europe, Switzerland
   
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
   
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 2025/08/12

Dr P. Altermatt, Trina Solar - SKL, China
Dr D. Barba Cancho, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
Dr J. Barnard, Rosalind Franklin Institute, UK
Dr C. Bechteler, Department of Materials, Oxford UK
Prof. L. Bogani, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy
Prof. R.H. Bradley, Robert Gordon University, UK
Dr A. Cackett, National Nuclear Laboratory, UK
Dr B. Caffrey, Rosalind Franklin Institute, UK
Dr A. Callow, Department of Materials, University of Oxford, UK
Dr A. Chakraborty, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Dr P. Chen, University of Sheffield, UK
Dr Y. Chen, University of Bath, UK
Dr A. Crossley, Department of Materials, University of Oxford, UK
Mr C. Cunningham, National Nuclear Laboratory, UK
Dr L. Daly, University of Glasgow, UK
Dr M. Danaie, Diamond Light Source, UK
Dr S. Feng, University of Sussex, UK
Dr B. Gabrys, Department of Materials, University of Oxford, UK
Dr M. Gallagher-Jones, The Rosalind Franklin Institute, UK
Dr J. Gong, Kings College London, UK
Dr Y. Gong, Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung, Germany
Dr D. Haley, Datamine Software, UK
Dr J. Haley, Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, UK
Dr C.D. Hardie, Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, UK
Dr H. Heptinstall, Imperial College, UK
Dr C. Huang, Rosalind Franklin Institute, UK
Dr J.M. Hyde, Wolfson College, Oxford, UK
Dr L. Jones, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
Dr T. Jones, Department of Materials, University of Oxford, UK
Dr M. Jordan, National Nuclear Laboratory, UK
Dr E. Khorani, University of Warwick, UK
Dr S. Kuksenko, UKAEA, UK
Dr M. Lefferts, Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands
Dr W. Li, Department of Materials, University of Oxford, UK
Dr Z. L. Li, Imperial College, UK
Dr E. Liberti, Diamond Lightsource, UK
Dr A. Lister, Department of Materials, University of Oxford, UK
Dr J. Liu, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Dr Y. Liu, University of Leicester, UK
Dr I. Lobato Hoyos, Rosalind Franklin Institute, UK
Dr A. London, UKAEA
Dr S. Lubbers, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Dr T. Martin, Bristol University, UK
Prof G. McCartney, University of Nottingham, UK
Prof D. McComb, Ohio State University, USA
Dr J. Moghal, Oxford Advanced Surfaces, UK
Dr A. Mohamed, NPL, UK
Professor M.P. Moody, Australia
Dr S. Morishita, Jeol, Japan
Dr A. Mostaed, Rosalind Franklin Institute, UK
Dr S. Myhra, Griffith University, Australia
Dr J. Parkhurst, The Rosalind Franklin Institute, UK
Dr A. Pedrazo-Tardajos, The Rosalind Franklin Institute, UK
Dr M. Perez-Osorio, Mexico
Dr T. Pirzada, Department of Materials, University of Oxford, UK
Prof. K. Porfyrakis, University of Greenwich, UK
Dr N. Pugno, Universita di Trento, Italy
Dr M. Sarsour, University of New South Wales, Australia
Dr R. Scales, Department of Materials, University of Oxford, UK
Dr J. Singh, Department of Materials, University of Oxford, UK
Dr G. Smith, National Physical Laboratory, Teddington UK
Dr P. Styman, National Nuclear Laboratory, Culham Science Centre,UK
Dr Y. Tang, University of Birmingham, UK
Dr M. Telling, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK
Dr L. Tuller-Nordstrum, Uppsala University, Sweden
Dr S. Utada, NIMS, Japan
Dr A. Velazco-Torrejon, The Rosalind Franklin Institute, UK
E. Wackan, University of Glasgow, UK
Prof H. Wang, Nanjing Hydraulic Research Institute, Jiangsu Province, PR China
Prof P. Wang, Nanjing University, PR China
Dr P-D. Warren, Pilkington plc, UK
Dr S. Wilkinson, Reuben College, University of Oxford, UK
Prof P.R. Wilshaw, Department of Materials, University of Oxford, UK
Dr J. Wu, China University of Mining Technology, PR China
Dr Q. Yang, Department of Materials, University of Oxford, UK
Dr S. Yu, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
Dr M. Yusuf, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, UK
Dr T. Zillhardt, University of Manchester, UK

Visiting Recognised Students - updated 2025/08/12

Zaher Bairkdar 
Tushar Bhudia
Svenja Both
Joel Casella
Satomi Katsuki
Kazuki Koreishi
Kei Kuwahara
Saheefa Maz

 

Abbiani, Luca
Adams, Kirk
Agarwal, Varnika
Akinwale, Anthony
Alatise, Oluwatosin
Alqahtani, Abdulrahman
Alsahli, Abdulmohsen
Alshangiti, Omar
An, Lijin
Arber, Allison
Bai, Yifan
Baker-Jones, Samantha
Balaji, Divya
Bali, Anjuli
Banerjee, Shiuli
Beggan, Sean
Bekler, Sevinc
Bennemann, Felix
Binder, Christian
Binford, Trevor
Bozkurt, Mehmet
Bromley, Jack
Brown, Galen
Bulla, Andrew
Cai, Xiaohang
Campbell, Finlay
Cao, Mengzhen
Chandler, Alana
Chan, Timothy
Charlesworth, Pedr
Chau, Oi
Cheng, Qian
Chen, Hetian
Chen, Hewen
Chen, Jingyan
Chen, Runze
Choudhury, Tahmid
Ciroth, Nils
Coulson, Matthew
Crowe, Evie
Cui, Zhexin
Dai, Joshua
Dai, Mingji
Dannaher, Tom
Davies, Carys
Davies, Christopher
Dearlove, Jonathan
Dekker, Emily
De Nardi, Alessandro
Dexter, Jonathan
Dinca, Maria
Ding, Shenghuan
Ellingsson, Viktor
Engelhardt, Helen
Epstein, Boruch
Erol, Mahmut
Evans, Alexander
Fang, Jiawei
Fang, Ziyi
Favell Gallifant, Cameron
Fihosy, Joseph
Follows, Frederick
Folwarczny, Martin
Forssberg, Axel
Furlan, Michael

Gaydon, Emerald
Ge, Tairu
Gierczak, Krystian
Ginnis, Thomas
Greenaway, Ella
Grishchenko, Georgy
Grohmann, Clint
Guo, Zonghao
Gupta, Akhil
He, Liusiyuan
He, Qinnan
He, Yuhan
Hoque, Shahnaz
Hortelano Roig, Daniel
Hoy, Stephen
Huang, Kairan
Huang, Xinrui
Ibanez Gomez, Laura
Jackson, Alexander
Jeon, Minjun
Jin, Ruining
Joinson, Nicholas
Jones, Gareth
Jones, Hannah
Jones, Heledd
Jousset-Drouhin, Amaury
Jung, Yerim
Kesavan, Sivasruthi
Kohler, Catherine
Korotov, Anne-Sophie
Kotakadi, Souhardh
Kwok, Daniel
Kylychbekov, Salizhan
Lain Rodriguez, Laura
Lancaster, Tom
Larner, Rebecca
Lee, Man Yi
Lee, Ping-Yuan
Liang, Yi
Liang, Yuanhao
Li, Benjamin
Limkaichong, Justin
Lin, Mengjiang
Li, Sirui
Liu, Houzhi
Liu, Jiapeng
Liu, Tongshan
Li Wang, Jiabin
Li, Weibin
Li, Yi
Li, Zixuan
Loeff, Tobias
Loew, Aryn
London, Emma
Lubbad, Saleem
Luo, Kangning
Lu, Qingchuan
Maitra, Soumyajit
Mai, Zhin
Maritz, Mikael
Marti Dafcik, Daniel
Ma, Shuze
Ma, Xinyao
McCollom, Henry
McGlothlen, Gregory

McQueen, James
Merotto, Simone
Metzler, Michael
Meyer, Benjamin
Milan, Emily
Milne, Tara
Miquel, Melvin
Mitchell, Nicole
Mo, Chunxi
More O'Ferrall, Gabriella
Morgan, Sharon
Moriyama, Hiiro
Mothatego, Thapelo
Mpembe Franco, Paula
Musa, Alya
Mushangwe, Lizzie
Najeeb, Zaeem
Nama, Rajat
Nauriyal, Shivansh
Niu, Xinya
Nixon, Daniel
Okhrymenko, Marharyta
Ong, Maxine
Palazzo, Stefano
Payne, Bartholomew
Perera, Johann
Picheo, Eugenio
Pirazzi, Jenna
Pratt, James
Puchal Salat, Francesc
Pujilaksono, Lazuardi
Qian, Jiangrui
Qi, Rui
Qi, Wenzhao
Quan, Yuan
Rahman, Syed
Rainbird, May
Ramanathan, Arun
Ramesh, Namrata
Rattew, Arthur
Reach, Amelia
Reavley, Matthew
Rees, Patrick
Renz, Toni
Ricci, Beatrice
Richardson, Ewan
Rivers, Kieran
Rodgers, Alice
Rychetsky, Marek
Sabnani, Serena
Samani, Keivan
Sarguroh, Khadija
Schoch, Isidor
Shao, Jiawei
Sharma, Sarah
Shen, Chen
Shen, Shih-Yun
Shi, Bingnan
Shi, Yifu
Shu, Ruiying
Siegel, Adam
Siller, Phillip
Silmemaj, Jasmina
Singh, Jasper
Siracosit, Sarawut

Song, Zirui
Srinivasan, Nayantara
Staines, Michael
Strunck, Richard
Sun, Qianyi
Sun, Yalun
Sun, Zhu
Su, Xiao
Tang, Yongxiang
Tariq, Wajahat
Taskin, Ruveyda
Tebbutt, George
Telford, Sean
Teoh, Colin
Thomas, Oliver
Thompson, Holly
Toftevaag, Haavard
Towell, Sophie
Trevadia, Darshit
Tufnail, James
Turcotte, Audrey
Tyagi, Sparsh
Ungermann, Katharina
Vuksic, Marin
Wang, Haiyi
Wang, Liren
Wang, Yan
Warman, Philippa
Whybrow, Rory
Wilkinson, Daniel
Williamson, Marcus
Winger, Joshua
Witte, Rebecca
Wright, Harry
Wu, Zheng
Xia, Yu
Xie, Junlong
Xie, Wendi
Xiong, Yuelin
Xi, Ziyang
Xu, Hang
Xu, Yiming
Yang, Lechen
Yang, Shun
Yang, Yunqing
Young, Amy
Zagura, Petr
Zanre, Alessandro
Zelin, Benjamin
Zhang, Dong
Zhang, Weiyi
Zhang, Wenyu
Zhang, Yi
Zhang, Yixin
Zhang, Yuxuan
Zhang, Zikang
Zhao, Junyi
Zheng, Qianfang
Zhong, Huien
Zhong, Sijing
Zhong, Zhiyang
Zhou, Jin
Zhou, Ruidong
Zhuge, Yuhan
Zhu, Yimin
Zhu, Yuanhui
Zotkin, Sergei

 

Undergraduate Students ( 4th Year 2024-2025 )

Banks, Enyala
Batchelor, Thomas
Belz-Koeling, Lucas
Bennett, James
Bignell, James
Bourdeaux, Fabian
Coombs, Milo
Cooper-Brown, Isabella
Craig, Alexander
Craven, David
Dedrick, Toby
Fernandez-Victorio, Isabel
Folkes, Toby
George, Thomas
Gooddy, Alex
Gregory, Madeline
Hargreaves, Evie
Hindson, Peter
Hou, Zhuojun
Jain, Nirali
Keates, Benedict
Lai, Veronica
Lancaster, Tom
Lander, Abigail
Manduku, Ariana
Nixon, Daniel
Rajesh, Upasana
Savanevskis, Ramunas
Stratton, Inigo
Sun, Qianyi
Ter, Shin
Wang, Yintong
Weal, Emily
Wheatley, Charlotte
Whitehead, Thomas
Wolny, Zofia
Wong, Lucius
Wright, Harry
Zhang, Renkai
Zheng, Shuzhe
Zhou, Ruidong
Zhu, Lin