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Professor Stephen Skinner – Imperial College Director (Industry)
Professor in the Department of Materials at Imperial College London
Research Areas:
- Materials for new energy technologies including solid oxide fuel cell electrolytes and
electrodes
- Development of interstitial oxide ion conductors for fuel cell applications
- Development of high temperature solid state electrolysers and permeation membranes
- In-situ characterisation of materials as function of operating conditions
- Understanding of degradation mechanisms and durability of electroceramic devices
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Professor Neil Curson – UCL Director (Industry)
Professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering at UCL
Research Areas:
- Controlled placement and imaging of dopants in semiconductors
- Study and control of chemical reactions at surfaces
- Development of scanning probe lithography techniques
- Fabrication of novel materials by molecular manipulation
For more information visit Neil’s website |
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Professor Valeria Nicolosi – Trinity College Dublin Director
Professor in the Department of Chemistry at TCD
Research Areas:
- Dispersion and exfoliation of 1D and 2D nanomaterials
- Aberration corrected electron microscopy characterisation of nano materials and devices
- In-situ EM characterisation of nanomaterials and devices
- Characterisation of MoSI Nanowires
- Batteries and Supercapacitators based on nanomaterials
- Development of energy storage devices additively manufactured
For more information visit Valeria’s website |
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Dr Robert Hoye – Co Director Imperial (Admissions)
Lecturer in the Department of Materials at Imperial College London
Research Areas:
- The development of materials that can tolerate defects
- Scalable manufacturing of semiconductors
- Engineering of advanced devices, including in-depth characterisation to understand the loss mechanisms.
For more information visit Robert’s Group webiste |
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Dr Anna Regoutz – Co Director UCL (Admissions)
Lecturer in the Department of Chemistry at UCL
Research Areas:
- Materials and interfaces in power electronics
- Oxide materials for electronic devices
- Sol-gel methods for thin films
- Inorganic materials for biosensors
- Hard X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy
- X-ray matter interactions
For more information visit Anna’s website |
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Dr Camille Petit – Co Director Imperial (Curriculum)
Reader in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London
Research Areas:
- Synthesis, Characterisation and Testing of Multifunctional Nanomaterials for Energy and Environmental Applications (e.g., CO2 capture and conversion, water purification and reuse)
- Development of 3D and 2D nanomaterials (e.g., Metal Organic Framework, Graphite Oxide, Boron Nitride, Carbon Nitride)
- Reactive Adsorption and Photocatalysis
For more information visit Camille’s website |
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Dr Chris Howard – Co Director UCL (Curriculum)
Associate Professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at UCL
Research Areas:
- Low dimensional materials (layered materials, 2D materials, nanotubes) and their manipulation via chemical doping
- Exotic electronic ground states (superconductivity, charge density waves)
- Physics of solutions and liquids
- Advanced large scale facility scattering techniques (elastic and inelastic X-ray and neutron scattering, photoemission spectroscopy, quasi elastic neutron scattering)
For more information visit Chris’s website |
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Dr Katharina Marquardt – Co Director Imperial
Lecturer in ceramics at Imperial College London
Research Areas:
- interfaces and their effect on elastic properties
- Element transport
- Study of the grain boundary character distribution (GBCD) in polycrystalline samples
- Mmicrostructure development during deformation at extreme pressures.
For more information visit Katharina’s website |
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Prof Geoff Thornton – Co Director UCL (Facilities)
Professor (ERC) in the Department of Chemistry at UCL
Research Areas:
- Nanoscience and surface science of metal oxides
- Developing single molecule spectroscopy on oxide surfaces, imaging single molecule chemistry, and nanofabrication of functional devices
- Crystallography
- STM/Atomic force microscopy
- Synchrotron radiation
- Diffraction
For more information visit Geoff’s website |
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Dr Lewys Jones – Co Director Trinity College Dublin
Assistant Professor (Ussher) in the Department of Physics at TCD
Research Areas:
- Scanning stability in the aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscope (AC-STEM)
- Applications of multi-frame STEM imaging and spectroscopy data
- Hardware development for TEM (inc. emitters, holders, lenses & detectors)
- Data analytics for low-dose imaging (inc. machine learning)
For more information visit Lewys’ website |
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Ms Hafiza Bibi – Centre Manager
Imperial College London |
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Dr Iris Lüke – Centre Manager
University College London |
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Ms Sandra Ellis – Programme Manager
Trinity College Dublin |