PhD students

Meet our Chemistry and Physics PhD students and explore their research topics.

To find out more about our PhD students, their research, and how to contact them, visit their individual profile pages via the links below.

Physics PhD student Afiq Abdul Hamid, wearing sunglasses and a denim jacket, taking a selfie outside in front of a red motorbike.

Afiq Adbul Hamid

Afiq's PhD research focuses on constraining turbulence in the intracluster medium.
Physics PhD student Alireza Zare, wearing a grey tshirt and standing next to his poster on carbon nanotube biosensing for aptamer performance.

Alireza Zare

Alireza's PhD research focuses on insect odorant receptor biosensors.
Physics PhD student Alla Gisich pictured wearing a long sleeve black top, smiling softly with her chin propped on her left hand.

Alla Gisich

Alla's PhD research focuses on enhanced spectroscopy of nanoparticles and challenges in measuring absorption and scattering.
Physics PhD student Andrea Irwin, pictured with yellow/green hair and wearing glasses, smiling in front of a grey wall.

Andrea Irwin

Andrea's PhD research focuses on research focuses on novel simulation techniques in plasmas.
Physics PhD student Angela Xue pictured wearing a light grey knit sweater, smiling in front of a snow covered bush of red berries.

Angela Xue

Angela's PhD research focuses on astrophysics, simulations, cosmology, and turbulence in the ICM.
Chemistry PhD student Benyamin M Garmejani smiling towards camera, wearing round glasses and a dark green shirt.

Benyamin M. Garmejani

Benyamin's PhD research focuses on Ddeveloping conductive porous electrocatalysts for greenhouse gas conversion.
Physics PhD student Danica Fontein pictured smiling, standing in front of equipment in her lab, wearing a dark blue button up shirt with her hair down.

Danica Fontein

Danica's PhD research focuses on insect olfactory receptor sensing mechanisms on CNTFET biosensor platforms.
Chemistry PhD student Edin Liu, in formal black and gold attire with red bow tie, seated in front of a flowering white bush.

Edin Liu

Edin's PhD research focuses on machine learning-accelerated development of metal-organic frameworks for enhanced methane capture.
Chemistry PhD student Emma Burdick pictured wearing a blue and white striped button up shirt in front of a grey studio background.

Emma Burdick

Emma's PhD research focuses on OSMAC approach to natural product compound investigation from Aotearoa sponge and tunicate marine fungi.
Physics PhD student Faun Watson wearing a dark grey shirt with their hair pulled back, smiling in front of a grey studio backdrop.

Faun Watson

Faun's PhD research focuses on charged aerodynamic deorbiting devices, space science and ionospheric physics.
PhD student Finnian Smith holding a 'thumbs up' to camera in front of a blue sky.

Finnian Smith

Finnian's PhD research focuses on exploring the interaction between inorganic nanoparticle semiconductors and organic ligands.
Chemistry PhD student Ghazaleh Ramezani smiling in front of a grey studio background.

Ghazaleh Ramezani

Ghazaleh's PhD research focuses on water electrolysis and oxygen bubble formation under confinement.
Physics PhD student Human Asad, smiling while leaning against a railing, wearing a black hijab and a pink shirt.

Humna Asad

Humna's PhD research focuses on magnetic resonance imaging, pore imaging, diffusion NMR, 3D printed porous structures and phase contrast imaging.
Chemistry PhD student Irelie Ebardo, wearing a long sleeve black top and smiling in front of a grey studio background.

Irelie Ebardo

Irelie's PhD research focuses on quantum chemical modelling, ionic liquid, hydrogen bonding, and solvation.
Chemistry PhD student Jiaqi Guo, pictured in a tan coat holding a bouqet of roses in front of a lit up bridge at night.

Jiaqi Guo

Jiaqi's PhD research focuses on AI-aided design and synthesis of small-molecule inhibitors targeting BTK (Bruton’s tyrosine kinase).
PhD student Kang Wang posing towards camera, wearing a coat, scarf and backpack outside under a blue sky.

Kang Wang

Kang's PhD research focuses on extracting gas pressure profiles of galaxy clusters using Bayesian inference.
Physics PhD student Kiri Van Koughnet, pictured wearing a cream sweater with her hair down and smiling in front of a grey studio background.

Kiri van Koughnet

Kiri's PhD research focuses on magnetic and electronic properties of neodymium nitride and its solid solutions with dysprosium nitride.
PhD student Lotte Boer smiling to camera, with her hair down and wearing a red sweater in front of a grey studio background.

Lotte Boer

Lotte's PhD research focuses on nanotechnology, data science, neuroscience, and microfabrication.
Physics PhD student Mariss Dierkes smiling, wearing a black tshirt with her hair down, crossing her arms in front of a black studio background.

Marissa Dierkes

Marissa's PhD research focuses on neuromorphic computing, microfabrication, and nanomaterial device characterisation.
Physics PhD student Nikita Shumilov wearing a black tshirt, smiling in front of a dark grey studio background.

Nikita Shumilov

Nikita's PhD research focuses on controlling the optoelectronic properties of non-fullerene acceptors via doping and morphology.
PhD student Nimra Bashir smiling to camera in front of a grey studio background, wearing a blue hijab and white jumper.

Nimra Bashir

Nimra's PhD research focuses on next-generation organic solar cells and intrinsic charge generation in Y6.
PhD student Qurat Ul Ain is smiling to camera, leaning on her hand, wearing an orange jumper outside a coffee shop.

Qurat Ul Ain

Qurat's PhD research focuses on gas capture using ionic liquids.
Close cropped photo of Physics PhD student Salma Zafar looking to camera, with her hair down.

Salma Zafar

Salma's PhD research focuses on artificial neural networks, memristive devices, micro- and nanomaterials fabrication and characterization.
Physics PhD student Sangar Begzaad, wearing a dark green button up shirt and posing with his arms crossed in front of a grey studio background.

Sangar Begzaad

Sangar's PhD research focuses electronic properties of thin films of carbon nanotubes for novel sensing platforms.
Chemistry PhD student Sri Varshini Murugan pictured smiling in a black zip up hoodie.

Sri Varshini Murugan

Sri's PhD research focuses on the design and synthesis of 2D and 3D covalent organic frameworks (COFs).
Physics PhD student Stefania Glukhova smiling in a light grey knit sweater standing in front of tall green plants.

Stefania Glukhova

Stefania's PhD research focuses on optical properties of different materials, electrodynamics, and coupled dipole theory.
Physics PhD student Viator Mujuni smiling, wearing a white button up shirt in front of a grey studio background.

Viator Mujuni

Viator's PhD research focuses on NMR and MRI for measuring flow using permanent magnets.
PhD student Vishnu Asokakumar Sreekala wearing a black cap and blue jacket, standing in front of a brick wall.

Vishnu Asokakumar Sreekala

Vishnu's PhD research focuses on the investigation of magnetic heat shielding in weakly ionized and completely ionized plasma regimes.