Members
Members
CSEC Management
Director
- Prof. Malcolm McMahon — Physics and Astronomy
Associate Director
- Dr Geoffrey Bromiley — GeoSciences
- Dr Louise Horsfall — BioSciences
- Prof. Konstantin Kamenev — Engineering
- Dr Caroline Kirk — Chemistry
- Dr Ingo Loa — Physics and Astronomy
Support Staff
Name | Role/Research Interests |
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Dr Steve Hankin | CSEC Superintendent and Safety Officer |
M. CSEC Secretary | Secretary |
Academic Staff
Name | School | Role/Research Interests |
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Prof. Graeme Ackland | Physics and Astronomy | |
Prof. J. Paul Attfield | Chemistry | High pressure materials synthesis |
Prof. Euan Brechin | Chemistry | Inorganic Chemistry, Coordination Chemistry, Supramolecular Chemistry, Molecular Magnetism, High Pressure Science. |
Dr Geoffrey Bromiley | GeoSciences | High pressure experimental mineralogy and petrology |
Dr Ian Butler | GeoSciences | Experimental Geochemistry |
Prof. Charles Cockell | Physics and Astronomy | Life in extreme environments, microbe-mineral interactions, habitability of extratererstrial environments |
Dr James Cumby | Chemistry | Structure and Electronic Properties of Transition Metal Oxides |
Dr Valentina Erastova | Chemistry | |
Prof. Eugene Gregoryanz | Physics and Astronomy | |
Dr Andreas Hermann | Physics and Astronomy | Computational Materials Physics |
Dr Claire Hobday | Chemistry | |
Dr Louise Horsfall | BioSciences | |
Dr Ross Howie | Physics and Astronomy | |
Prof. Andrew Huxley | Physics and Astronomy | |
Prof. Konstantin Kamenev | Engineering | |
Dr Caroline Kirk | Chemistry | |
Dr Adam Kirrander | Chemistry | Computational X-ray scattering/XFELs |
Dr Emiko Komabayashi | GeoSciences | |
Dr Tetsuya Komabayashi | GeoSciences | |
Prof. Vasileios Koutsos | Engineering | Materials Design, Processing and Characterisation |
Dr Dominique Laniel | Physics and Astronomy | |
Dr Ingo Loa | Physics and Astronomy | |
Dr John Loveday | Physics and Astronomy | |
Dr Miguel Martinez-Canales | Physics and Astronomy | Computational study of materials at extreme pressure |
Dr Christopher McDermott | GeoSciences | |
Prof. Malcolm McMahon | Physics and Astronomy | |
Dr Stewart McWilliams | Physics and Astronomy | High pressure, high temperature materials science; planetary science; shock physics. |
Dr Naomi Nakayama | BioSciences | |
Dr Fabio Nudelman | Chemistry | |
Prof. Simon Parsons | Chemistry | |
Dr Miriam Pena Alvarez | Physics and Astronomy | |
Prof. Colin Pulham | Chemistry | High-pressure studies of energetic materials, pharmaceuticals, fuels, and lubricants |
Dr Santiago Romero-Vargas Castrillón | Engineering | |
Dr John Royer | Physics and Astronomy | |
Dr George Serghiou | Engineering | |
Dr Mats Simmermacher | Chemistry | |
Dr Christopher Stock | Physics and Astronomy | |
Dr Filipe Teixeira-Dias | Engineering | Impact and structural dynamics, ballistics and blast waves, high strain rate material behaviour, computational mechanics, composite and cellular materials, applied and solid mechanics |
Prof. Ying Zheng | Engineering | Chemical Engineering |
Postdoctoral Research Fellows
Name | School | Role/Research Interests |
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Dr Sergejs Afanasjevs | Engineering | |
Dr Michael Capeness | BioSciences | |
Dr Laura Charlton | Engineering | |
Dr Matthew Duff | Physics and Astronomy | |
Dr Virginia Echavarri-Bravo | BioSciences | Investigating the possible applications of metallic nanoparticles synthesised by microorganisms |
Dr Matthew Edmundson | BioSciences | |
Dr Alvaro Etcheverry Berrios | Chemistry | |
Dr Sean Injac | Chemistry | |
Dr Kunlang Ji | Chemistry | |
Ms Guratinder Kaur | Physics and Astronomy | |
Dr Mikhail Kuzovnikov | Physics and Astronomy | |
Dr Akun Liang | Physics and Astronomy | |
Dr Xiaojiao Liu | Chemistry | |
Dr Gurusaran Manickam | BioSciences | |
Dr Tomas Marqueno Villanueva | Physics and Astronomy | |
Mr Bernhard Massani | Physics and Astronomy | |
Dr Andres Moreno Carrascosa | Chemistry | |
Dr Oleg Nerushev | Chemistry | Lubricants Under Pressure |
Dr Israel Osmond | Physics and Astronomy | |
Dr Nikolaos Pantidos | BioSciences | |
Dr Debi Prasad Pattnaik | Chemistry | |
Dr Ciprian Pruteanu | Physics and Astronomy | |
Ms Rebecca Rae | Chemistry | |
Dr Umbertoluca Ranieri | Physics and Astronomy | |
Dr Jacob Shephard | Chemistry | |
Dr Mukesh Singh | Chemistry | |
Mr Christian Viktor Storm | Physics and Astronomy | |
Dr Anna Toth | Physics and Astronomy | |
Dr Angelos Tsanai | Chemistry | |
Dr Jinwei Yan | Physics and Astronomy |
Postgraduate Students
Name | School | Role/Research Interests |
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Mrs Mbayer Abunku | Engineering | |
Ms Eleftheria Agapaki | Chemistry | |
Mrs Aziza Almadhi | Chemistry | |
Mr Matthew Aquilina | Engineering | |
Ms Orianna Ball | Physics and Astronomy | |
Ms Ardith D. Bravenec | GeoSciences | |
Mr Edward Broadhurst | Chemistry | |
Mr Samuel Brown | Physics and Astronomy | |
Mr Alex Campbell | Chemistry | |
Mr Aaron Chan | Chemistry | |
Ms Monica Chandwani Chandwani | Chemistry | |
Mr Lewis Clough | Chemistry | |
Mr Lewis Conway | Physics and Astronomy | |
Mr Peter Cooke | Physics and Astronomy | |
Mr Ian Eggington | BioSciences | |
Mr Oliver J E Entwisle | Physics and Astronomy | |
Mr Calum Ferguson | Physics and Astronomy | |
Mr Miguel Garcia Vazquez | Engineering | |
Mr Stewart Gault | Physics and Astronomy | |
Ms Vili Grigorova | Engineering | |
Ms Annabel Gunn | Physics and Astronomy | |
Ms Jenny Harnett | Physics and Astronomy | |
Ms Yasmin Hitchin | Engineering | |
Ms Mylaine Holin | Physics and Astronomy | |
Ms Chi Cheng (Cecilia) Hong | Chemistry | |
Mr Jonathan Hunt | Physics and Astronomy | Anharmonic Lattice Dynamics |
Ms Hannah Jones | Engineering | |
M. Maya Khela | Physics and Astronomy | |
Mr Jinze King | Engineering | |
Mr Marcin Kirsz | Physics and Astronomy | |
Mr Harry Lane | Chemistry | |
Mr Hector Leong | Physics and Astronomy | |
Mr Tianxin Liang | Chemistry | |
Ms Hannah Logan | Chemistry | |
Ms Fiona MacIver-Jones | Chemistry | |
Mr Dilraj Mankoo | Chemistry | |
Ms Simona Mazzone | Engineering | |
Mr James McHardy | Physics and Astronomy | |
Ms Sophie Millen | Physics and Astronomy | |
Mr Michael Milton | Chemistry | |
Mr Lukas Muhlbauer | BioSciences | |
Ms Phillippa Partridge | Chemistry | |
Ms Jana Pasztorova | Physics and Astronomy | |
Ms Ellie Pauli | Chemistry | |
Ms Tereza Prokopová | Physics and Astronomy | UG Student |
Mr Matt Reeves | Chemistry | |
Ms Matilda Rhodes | Chemistry | |
Mr Daniel Roberts | Chemistry | |
Mr Olin Robinson | Physics and Astronomy | |
Mr Paul Sarte | Chemistry | Magnetism at Extreme Conditions, High Pressure-High Temperature Synthesis |
Mr James Spender | Physics and Astronomy | |
Mr Callum Stevens | Physics and Astronomy | |
Mr Calum Strain | Physics and Astronomy | |
Mr Weiguo Sun | Physics and Astronomy | |
Mr Matthew Sutton | Engineering | |
Mr Yifei Tang | Physics and Astronomy | |
Mr Samuel Thompson | GeoSciences | |
Mr Zak Towle | BioSciences | |
Mr Antonios Valavanis | Engineering | |
Ms Yazhini Vinoth Kumar | Engineering | |
Ms Annemiek Waajen | Physics and Astronomy | |
Ms Mengnan Wang | Physics and Astronomy | |
Mr Ke Wang | Engineering | |
Mr Jacob Whittaker | Chemistry | |
Ms Lucinda Wilson | Chemistry | |
Mr Cameron Wilson | Chemistry | |
Mr Gavin Woolman | Physics and Astronomy | Primarily I use density functional theory (DFT) to investigate the thermoelectric properties of semiconductors. I also have an interest in high pressure physics, and material transport properties in general. |
Mr Chenhao Wu | Chemistry | |
Ms Zena Younes | GeoSciences |
Visiting Scientists, Attached Scientists and Honorary Fellows
Name | School | Role/Research Interests |
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Dr Stephen Elphick | GeoSciences | |
Dr Natalia Gomez-Perez | Physics and Astronomy | |
Dr Malcolm Guthrie | Physics and Astronomy | High Pressure |
Prof. Christopher Hall | Engineering | Engineering Materials |
Prof. Andrew Harrison | Chemistry | Honorary Professor - School of Chemistry |
Prof. Ben Harte | GeoSciences | Minerals and Melts in the Earth's Interior |
Mr Takayuki Nagai | Chemistry | |
Prof. Richard Nelmes | Physics and Astronomy | Professor of Crystallography & Senior Visiting Fellow at the ISIS Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory |
Prof. Chrystele Sanloup | Physics and Astronomy | Condensed Matter and Photonics/Hard Condensed Matter |
Prof. Lindsay Sawyer | BioSciences | Protein biochemistry at high pressure |
Mr Sean Stankovic | Chemistry | |
Dr Yao Yuan | Chemistry |
CSEC Associate Members
Name | Affiliation |
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Dr Scott Dalgarno | School of Chemical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK |
Prof. Stephen Hill | Department of Physics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, US |
Prof. Mark Murrie | School of Chemistry, University of Glasgow, UK |
Dr Mike Probert | School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University, UK |
Dr Rafael Valiente | Department of Applied Physics, University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain |