Group Members
Group Leader
Dr Shelly Conroy
Lecturer Functional Thin Films & Microscopy
Royal Society Tata University Research Fellow
Dr Yaqi Li
Postdoctoral researcher
Royal Society University Fellowship grant
Growth of ferroelectric thin films
Dr Baron Ping-Luen Ho
Postdoctoral researcher
CAMIE Programme Grant
Dr Tigran Simonian
Postdoctoral researcher
NAME Programme grant
Syeda Ramin Jannat
PhD student - Faraday Institute
'The Nanoscale Cryo-Microscopy of the Nucleation and Growth of Dendrites in Lithium-Ion Batteries'
Co-supervisors: Prof Mary Ryan & Prof Baptiste Gault
Matthew Mosse
PhD student - CDT ACM
Novel Scanning Acquisition Design and All-digital Detection Strategies in STEM
Co-supervisors: Prof Lewys Jones
Cam Crabb
PhD student - Rolls Royce co-funded
'Taking Polycrystalline Co/Ni-base Superalloys into service'
Co-supervisors: Prof Dave Dye & Dr Mark Hardy
Guanglei Chen
PhD student
'Investigation on lithium mediated nitrogen reduction reaction by atom probe tomography technique'
Co-supervisors: Prof Ifan Stephens
Mariana Palos Sanchez
PhD student - Royal Society University Fellowship grant
'Probing Dynamically Induced Polar Topologies in Non-Classic Ferroelectric Thin Films'
Co-supervisors: Prof Neil Alford (ICL)
Sophia Linssen-Pitsaros
PhD student - CDT Advanced Characterisation of Materials
'Freestanding Ferroelectric Oxides and Atomic Scale STEM'
Co-supervisors: Prof Pavlo Zubko (UCL)
Rahil Haria
PhD student - CDT ACM, co funded Cameca Ltd.
'Freestanding Complex Oxide Membrane Interfaces Investigated via Atomic-Scale Characterisation'
Co-supervisors: Prof Baptiste Gault
Fin Hardy
PhD Student - ERC CoG DISCO
'Rapid Categorisation of Polar Domains from Reciprocal Space using Deep Learning'
Co-supervisors: Prof Aron Walsh and Dr Andrew Cairns
Geri Topore
PhD Student - CDT ACM, co-funded Cameca Ltd.
'Mesoscopic electric field predictions and specimen shape measurements to improve reconstruction in APT'
Co-supervisors: Prof Baptiste Gault & Prof Finn Guiliani
Yesim Demirolmez
PhD student
Thin film growth of multiferroic Aurivillius thin films & TEM
Co-supervisors: Dr Lynette Keeney
Oscar Langdon
PhD student - CTD ACM & Rolls Royce funded
'An Assessment of Novel Fatigue Capable Titanium Alloys for Aeroengine Application'
Co-supervisors: Prof David Dye
Neil Mulcahy
PhD student - EPSRC InFUSE Prosperity Partnership
'Correlative operando and cryo techniques for visualising structure and chemistry in nanoscale systems'
Co-supervisors: Prof Mary Ryan
Lukas Worch
PhD student - CDT ACM
'Investigating the Nanoscale Solid–Liquid Interface for Next Generation Batteries via Cryogenic STEM'
Co-supervisors: Prof Baptiste Gault & Prof Valeria Nicolosi
Belle Hoyes
MEng Materials Imperial research project student
'How to make Atomic Bubblegum: Freestanding Complex Oxides Under Atomic Microscopy'
Past group members
Amélie Mattheus
Previous MEng Materials research project student
Young graduate at Coca-Cola Europacific Partners
Zelong Yan
Previous MEng Materials research project student
PhD student Imperial Materials
Niamh O'Shea
Previous MSc research student
CDT ACM PhD student at TCD
Elora McFall
Previous FYP Physics undergrad student
MSc Experimental Physics at Utrecht University