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Research Fellows and Associates

Dr Anastasia Soeriyadi, 2022-2024

Doctor of Philosophy in Materials

Dr Xinya Niu, DPhil in Materials, 2025

Dr John O'Sullivan, DPhil in Materials, 2025

Dr Donghao Liu, DPhil in Materials, 2024

Dr Shona McNab, DPhil in Materials, 2024

Dr Mingzhe Yu, DPhil in Materials, 2023

Dr Eleanor Shaw, DPhil in Materials, 2023

Dr Isabel Al-Dhahir, DPhil in Materials, 2022

Dr Katherine Collet, DPhil in Materials, 2018

Master's of Engineering in Materials

James McQueen, MEng in Materials, 2024

Chidiebube Anyanechi, MEng in Materials, 2024

Veerakit Sukamongkol (TongTong), MEng in Materials, 2024

Freya Leyland, MEng in Materials, 2023

Yuelin Xiong, MEng in Materials, 2023

Nadhanont Kiatkulvanich, MEng in Materials, 2023

Reggie (Mong) Leung, MEng in Materials, 2022

Louis Wright, MEng in Materials, 2022

Omer Nalbant, MEng in Materials, 2021

Frank (Xumo) Yang, MEng in Materials, 2021

Poppy Miller, MEng in Materials, 2020

Alex Herzog, MEng in Materials, 2020

Rachel Kealy, MEng in Materials, 2019

Joshua Deru, MEng in Materials, 2019

Anita (Ruinan) Zhou, MEng in Materials, 2019

Louis Brannan, MEng in Materials, 2018

Siyao Du, MEng in Materials, 2018

Shiyun Liu, MEng in Materials, 2017

Nicolas Jennison, MEng in Materials, 2016

Matthew Cyrson, MEng in Materials, 2016

Visiting and Summer Academics

Dr Zongtao Liu, 2023-2024 (Sun Yat Sen University)

Dr David Payne, 2024 (Macquarie University, Australia)

Dr Robert Patterson, 2024 (UNSW, Australia)

Yuxuan Zhou, 2023 (Zhejiang University)

Ruidong Zhou, 2023 (St Anne's College, Oxford)

Dr Shuai Nie, 2022 (UNSW)

Dr Angelika Basch, 2022 (Austrian University of Applied Sciences)

Adam Dadabhoy, 2022 (Swansea University)

Julian Loncarevic, 2022 (Oxford)

Ben Jagger, 2020 (Oxford)

Reggie (Mong) Leung, 2020 (Oxford)

Samira Kelly, 2020 (Bath)

Yuan Zong, 2019 (Shanghai Jiao Tong)

Henry zhang, 2018 (Shanghai Jiao Tong)

Zhaohua Luo, 2017 (Nimte)

Bingkun Hu, 2016 (Shanghai Jiao Tong)

Among presents, lab stories, and classic British food, we bid farewell to Xinya and wished her the best in the new job. May 2025.

We celebrate Erica's analogue photography, she's so good!

We kick off the summer season with our first BBQ, in April! Post celebration after SiliconPV 2025.

In April 2025 we went to Diamond Light Source for our first ever beamtime.

Celebrating our new group members with delicious Korean BBQ - November 2024 - Warm welcome Astoria, Harry, Paul, Boom, and James

Chinese New Year Celebration with some karaoke, 2024

(Indian) Christmas Dinner 2023, and some fun activities in China during PVSEC34.

Farewell celebration for Donghao, cheering for Mingzhe Yu's passing her viva, and welcome to UNSW collaborators. July 2023

Celebrating Shona passing her PhD Viva, June 2023

Summer BBQ to celebrate Part II's finishing and recent fellowship/postdoc achievements.

Hosting of Takuya and celebration of Shona and Avery's PhD submission. Spring 2023.

Potluck dinner at Sebastian's to celebrate Matt's Marie Curie award.

Chinese New Year Celebration, 2023.

Eli's viva celebration at Rickety Press.

Christmas dinner 2022, and welcome to Anastasia.

Welcoming the new Part II students and summer visitors to the Lab, as well as celebrating Eli's submission.

Dinner in Milan at the World PV conference 2022, including Pietro!

Group Summer BBQ in Sebastian's house, July 2022

Celebrating our fantastic contributions to the Silicon PV 2022 conference in Konstanz.

Chinese new year celebration, Feb 2022

A very merry Christmas dinner celebration after a long time. Dec, 2021.

We celebrate Isabel passing her viva examination with some champagne in the labs. Well done Isabel!

We celebrate Isabel's DPhil submission. Well done Isabel!

Pub lunch for Samira's visit, Sept 2021

Xinya and Mohsen having fun at St Giles Fair

Avery and Yifu at summer BBQ, 2021

Group end of the year virtual celebration, 2020

Group Christmas Dinner, Dec, 2019

Group Summer BBQ at Peter's house, 2019

Group Christmas Dinner, Dec, 2019

Group foosball match at the pub: Gaby, Anita, Rachel, Josh. Sept 2018

Semicon Group Christmas Dinner 2018

Group goes Skiing in Chamonix: Phill, Seb, Gaby, Katie, Nick. April 2017

Champagne in the Lab, Katie passes her viva. 2018.

Left to right: Sebastian, Mike, Josh, Gaby, Chan, Katie, Bram. Group at the Solar Cells Symposium, Wolfson College.

Group goes to conference in Georgia, Sept 2017: Phill, Seb, Katie, Gaby, Brett (UNSW), Eli, and Peter.

Energy Materials Interfaces Group

Prof Robert Weatherup

Understanding of reactions occurring at material interfaces that underpin sustainable technologies, including batteries, catalysis, and 2D materials.

Solar Energy Materials Group

Prof Andrew Watt, Department of Materials

Developing new materials and devices to generate energy using colloid chemistry and vacuum deposition techniques.

Atom Probe Tomography Group

Prof Michael Moody and Dr Paul Bagot, Department of Materials.

Developing atom probe tomography for 3D atom-by-atom imaging of materials with a uniquely powerful combination of spatial and chemical resolution

Photovoltaic and optoelectronic device group

Prof Henry Snaith, Department of Physics.

Understanding, and improving, photovoltaic devices based on metal halide perovskite semiconductors.

Advanced Nanoscale Engineering Group

Prof Harish Bhaskaran

Atomic force microscope (AFM) for the characterisation of surface properties at the nanoscale.

Lab Leader

Research Fellows

Graduate Students

Laboratory Staff

Part II MEng students 2024-2025

Alumni