Driven by curiosity. Driving changeFormer postdocs and senior research fellows
- Dr Youngkwang Jung, Postdoc and Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, 2022-2025 (InnoCORE Fellow, UNIST)
- Dr Linfeng Pan, Postdoc and Leverhulme ECR Fellow, 2020-2025 (Associate Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
- Dr Miguel Anaya, Former Light Emission Sub-Group Leader, Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, Leverhulme Fellow and RAEng Fellow, 2018-2024 (Assistant Professor at University of Seville)
- Dr Eunyoung Choi, Postdoc, 2023-2025 (Postdoctoral Researcher, KyungHee University)
- Dr Jian Mao, Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, 2022-2024 (Assistant Professor, Fudan University)
- Dr Satya Nagane, Newton International Fellow, 2019-2024 (Industry)
- Dr Javad Shamsi, Postdoc, 2018-2023 (Cavendish Lab, Cambridge)
- Dr Bart Roose, Former Light Harvesting Sub-Group Leader, Postdoc, 2020-2023 (Senior Device Engineer, Quantum Solutions)
- Dr Changsoon Cho, Postdoc, 2021-2023 (Assistant Professor, Pohang University of Science and Technology)
- Dr Simon Kahmann, Former Spectroscopy Sub-Group Leader, Postdoc and Leverhulme ECR Fellow, 2021-2023 (Junior Professor, Chemnitz University of Technology)
- Dr Szymon Zelewski, Bekker Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2021-2023 (Assistant Professor, University of Wroclaw)
- Dr Terry Chien-Jen Yang, Former Academic Manager, Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, 2021-2023 (Technical Lead at SunDrive Solar)
- Dr Dengyang Guo, Postdoc, 2020-2023 (Research Assistant Professor, HKUST)
- Dr Beth Tennyson, Former Impact Sub-Group Leader, Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, 2018-2023 (Centre for Global Equality & The Cambridge Centre for Inclusive Innovation, University of Cambridge)
- Dr Juliane Borchert, Postdoc, 2020-2022 (Group Leader, Fraunhofer ISE)
- Dr Krzysztof Galkowski, Former Spectroscopy Sub-Group Leader, Mobilnosc Polish Academy of Sciences Postdoc Fellowship, 2018-2021 (Assistant Professor, University of Wroclaw)
- Dr Dominik Kubicki, Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, 2019-2021 (Assistant Professor, University of Birmingham)
- Dr Linsong Cui, Postdoc, 2020-2021 (Assistant Professor, University of Science and Technology of China)
- Dr Geraud Delport, Newton International Fellow, 2018-2020 (Permanent Scientist, CNRS Paris)
- Dr Felix Lang, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellowship, 2019-2020 (Group Leader, University of Potsdam)
Former PhD students
- Dr Melissa Fitzsimmons, CDT in Photonic and Electronic Systems, 2021-2025 (Operational Researcher at the Ministry of Justice)
- Dr Zher Ying Ooi, St John’s College Studentship, 2020-2024
- Dr Alice Dearle, NanoDTC, 2019-2024
- Dr Youcheng Zhang, NanoDTC, 2019-2024 (Postdoc, Cavendish Laboratory)
- Dr Kieran Orr, EPSRC DTP Studentship, 2019-2024 (Stanford Energy Fellow, Stanford University)
- Dr Simone Eizagirre-Barker, NanoDTC, 2020-2024 Primary Supervisor Mete Atatüre (Product Manager, Nu Quantum)
- Dr Tiarnan Doherty, NUI Travelling Studentship, 2017-2021; Postdoc (Oppenheimer Fellow) and Schmidt Fellow 2021 – 2024
- Dr Kangyu Ji, 2017-2023 (Purdue 2025-;Postdoc, MIT 2023-2024)
- Dr Jordi Ferrer Orri, NanoDTC, 2019- 2023 (Startup)
- Dr Affan Iqbal, 2019-2023 (Energy consulting)
- Dr Anna Abfalterer, Royal Society Studentship, 2018-2023 (Postdoc, LMU Munich)
- Dr Alan Baldwin, 2019-2023 (Postdoc, University of Oxford)
- Dr Kyle Frohna, Winton Studentship, Schiff Studentship, EPSRC DTP Studentship, 2018-2022; Postdoc and Former Spectroscopy Sub-Group Leader, 2023 (Stanford Energy Fellow, Stanford University)
- Dr Kaiwen Zhang, NanoDTC, Primary Supervisor Prof. Laura Torrente, 2018-2023 (Helio Display Materials, Oxford)
- Dr Krishanu Dey, Cambridge Trusts Studentship, 2018-2023 (Postdoc, University of Oxford)
- Dr Zahra Andaji-Garmaroudi, Winton Studentship, 2016-2020; Postdoc together with University of Pavia 2020-2022 (Finance)
- Dr Edoardo Ruggeri, 2017-2022; Postdoc 2022 (Renewable energy consultant, CBRE UK)
- Dr Yu-Hsien Chiang, Cambridge Trusts Studentship, 2018-2022 (Principal Engineer, TSMC)
- Dr Oliver Moseley, EPSRC DTP Studentship, 2018-2022 (Patent attorney, Elkington + Fife)
- Dr Alan Bowman, Winton Studentship, PV CDT, 2017-2021; Postdoc 2021-2022 (Postdoctoral Researcher, EPFL)
- Dr Stuart Macpherson, EPSRC DTP Studentship, 2017-2021; Postdoc 2021 (Optical Engineer, OxONN)
- Dr Stephanie Adeyemo, Primary Supervisor Prof. Hannah Joyce, 2016-2021; Junior Research Fellow, UCam, 2022 –
- Dr Camille Stavrakas, NanoDTC, 2017-2019 (R&D Engineer, PsiQuantum)
Sabbatical visitors and visiting researchers
- Joudi Al Almadi, June 2025 – Sept 2025
- Peihao Huang, June 2025- Sept 2025
- Prof. Hanwei Gao, March – July 2024 (Associate Professor, Florida State University)
- Prof. Annamaria Petrozza, June – July 2023; July – August 2025 (Senior Researcher, Italian Institute of Technology)
- Prof. Mario Caironi, June – July 2023 (Senior Researcher, Italian Institute of Technology)
- Prof. Rebecca Belisle, March – August 2023 (Knafel Assistant Professor of Natural Sciences; Assistant Professor of Physics, Wellesley College)
- Prof. Dr Wouter Van Gompel, March – June 2023 (Assistant Professor at Hasselt University)
Former support staff
- Charli Hendy, PA to Professor Sam Stranks, 2023-2024
- Elena Avila, Lab and Programme Manager, 2022-2023
Visiting students and interns
- Sara Caepic, Feb 2025- Sept 2025 (University of Bologna)
- Jaehui Kim, June 2023 – Dec 2023 (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)
- Zhenyao Jiang, June – Aug 2023 (University of Cambridge)
- Ayla Dekker, Feb- July 2023 (University of Utrecht)
- Chiara Ongaro, Feb – July 2023 (PhD Student, EPFL)
- Jiawei Chen, Mar 2022 – Jan 2023 (Nanjing University of Science and Technology)
- David O’Shea, July – Aug 2022 (NanoFutures Scholars intern through Nano DTC)
- Elena Cabello Olmo, July – Aug 2022
- Renjun Guo, April – June 2022 (Technical University Munich)
- Finn Beiglbock, Oct 2021 – Jan 2022
- Aida Drevilkauskaitė, Nov 2021- January 2022 (KTU)
- Bianca Gevers, Oct – Nov 2021 (University of Pretoria)
- Xian Wei Chua, July – Oct 2021 (Undergraduate at University of Cambridge)
- Pau Molet, May – June 2021 (ICMAB, Spain)
- Nathan Daem, Feb 2020 (University of Liege)
- Rosemonde Chahbazian, April – July 2019 (Paris Sarclay)
- Tingjun Zhang, June – Aug 2018 (Undergraduate at Clare College, Cambridge)
- Daniel Ramirez, Jan – March 2018 (University of Antioquia)
- Zhuo (Joe) Yang, Feb 2017 (CNRS-Toulouse)
NanoDTC mini students
- Katie Ninham, Dec 2023 – Feb 2024 (collab with Prof. Erwin Reisner)
- Larry Brazel, March – April 2023 (collab with Dr Miguel Anaya)
- Tara Murphy, March – April 2023 (collab with Prof. Henning Sirringhaus)
- Adrian Ho, Dec 2022 – Feb 2023 (collab with Prof. Laura Torrente)
- Rowena Davis, Dec 2022 – Feb 2023 (collab with Prof. Cate Ducati)
- Dylan Cuskelly, Dec 2022 – Feb 2023 (collab with Dr Jack Alexander-Webber)
- Anish Chaluvadi, Feb – April 2022 (collab with Prof. Paul Midgley)
- James Steele, Feb – April 2022 (collab with Dr. Alex Forse)
- Rachel Matthews, Dec 2021 – Feb 2022 (collab with Prof. Steve Lee)
- Timothy Lambden, Dec 2021 – Feb 2022 (collab with Prof. Henning Sirringhaus)
- Alasdair Tew, Feb – May 2021 (collab with Dr Hannah Joyce)
- Molly Davis, Feb – May 2021 (collab with Prof. Cate Ducati)
- Oyedamola Asiyanbola, Feb – May 2021 (collab with Prof. Paul Midgley)
- Anna Scheeder, Dec 2020 – Feb 2021 (collab with Dr Miguel Anaya and Prof. Clemens Kaminski)
- Jien Tan, Jan – March 2020 (collab with Prof. Stephan Hofmann)
- Jiratheep Pruchyathamkorn, Jan – March 2020 (collab with Dr. Tom Bennett)
- Eduardo Camarillo-Abad, Feb – April 2019 (collab with Prof. Rachel Oliver)
- Joshua Tuffnell, Feb – April 2018 (collab with Prof. Rachel Oliver)
- Bluebell Drummond, Dec 2017 – Jan 2018 (collab with Prof. Laura Torrente and Dr Robert Hoye)
- Taylor Uekert, Dec 2016 – Jan 2017 (collab with Prof. Hannah Joyce)
Other short projects
- Ziming Guo, CPES CDT Mini Project (Nov 2023 – May 2024)
- Ran Chen, CPES CDT Mini Project (Nov 2020 – May 2021)
- Anna-Pia Marty, Sensor CDT Mini Project (Nov 2020 – March 2021)
- Alexander Vladimirov, Graphene Short Project (May – Aug 2018)
MPhil students
- Liv Hawkins, MPhil co-supervised with Dr Yang Lu (June 2025- September 2025)
- Ji-Hee Yun, MPhil Chemical Engineering co-supervised with Taeheon Kang (Feb 2025- Sept 2025)
- Eleni Pyrilli, MPhil Biotechnology co-supervised with Dr Hong In Jeong (Oct 2024- May 2025)
- Isabella Sandak-Lewin, MPhil Biotechnology co-supervised with Miguel Anaya (Oct 2021 – Sept 2022)
- Zelun Li, MPhil co-supervised with Prof. Clemens Kaminski (Oct 2018- Sept 2019)
- Ruyi Huang, MPhil in Micro- and Nanotechnology Enterprise (May- Sept 2018)
Physics Part III project students
- Nell Thomson, Oct 2024 – May 2025
- Eleanor Toms, Dec 2020 – May 2021
- Jack Huang, Dec 2020 – May 2021
- Shaoni Kar, Dec 2018 – Sept 2019
- William Drake, Dec 2018 – May 2019
- Harry Jones, Dec 2017 – May 2018
- Kilian Lohmann, Dec 2016 – May 2017
Part IIB CEB
- Jishern Yuen, Oct 2024 – May 2025 (Joint winner of poster prize)
- Oliver Tonge, Oct 2024 – May 2025 (Joint winner of poster prize)
- Thomas Gledhill, Oct 2023 – May 2024
- Andrew Te Water Naude, Oct 2022 – May 2023
- Eron Bulliqi-Sabani, Oct 2022 – May 2023
- Ethan St Catherine, Oct 2022 – May 2023
- Simon Canniffe, Oct 2022- May 2023
- Eloise Christie, Oct 2021 – Mar 2022 (Winner of presentation prize)
- Ellis Birch, Oct 2020 – Apr 2021
- Simon King, Oct 2020 – Apr 2021