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Around 750 people work within the Department of Materials as academic staff, support staff, research fellows, graduate and undergraduate students or visitors.

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Professor P.D. Nellist FRS Head of Department, Professor of Materials
Professor C.R.M. Grovenor Associate Head of Department (Research), Professor of Materials
Professor T.J. Marrow Associate Head of Department (Teaching), James Martin Chair in Energy Materials
Professor J. Smith Associate Head of Department (Infrastructure), Professor of Photonic Materials and Devices
Professor P.S. Grant FREng Vesuvius Chair of Materials, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research)
Professor Sir P.G. Bruce FRS  Wolfson Chair
Professor M.S. Islam  Professor of Materials Modelling
Professor D.E.J. Armstrong Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Professor H.E. Assender Professor of Materials
Professor S.C. Benjamin Professor of Quantum Technologies
Professor H. Bhaskaran FREng Professor of Applied Nanomaterials, Associate Head of Division (Research)
Professor M.R. Castell Professor of Materials, Associate Head of Division (Taught Degrees)
Professor N. Grobert Professor of Materials
Professor A.I. Kirkland Professor of Materials
Professor S. Lozano-Perez George Kelley Professor of Materials
Professor M. Pasta Professor of Applied Electrochemistry
Professor R.C. Reed FREng Professor of Materials and Solid Mechanics
Professor S.C. Speller Professor of Materials Science
Professor R.I. Todd Professor of Materials
Professor R.S. Weatherup Professor of Energy Materials
Professor A.J. Wilkinson Professor of Materials
Professor J. R. Yates Professor of Materials Modelling
Professor R.S. Bonilla Associate Professor of Materials
Professor J.T. Czernuszka Associate Professor of Materials
Professor M.L. Galano Associate Professor of Materials
Professor R. House Associate Professor of Materials
Professor K. Marquardt Associate Professor of Materials
Professor R. J. Nicholls Associate Professor of Materials
Professor K.A.Q. O'Reilly Associate Professor of Materials
Professor H.L. Stern Associate Professor of Materials
Professor E.K.R. Tarleton Associate Professor of Engineering Science
Professor A.A.R. Watt Associate Professor of Materials
Dr C. Barker Daphne Jackson Research Fellow
Dr A. Chakraborty Royal Society Newton International Fellow
Dr N. Farmakidis Departmental Lecturer in Advanced Nanoscale Engineering
Dr Z. Goodwin Glasstone Research Fellow in Materials and Extraordinary Junior Research Fellow in Materials of The Queen’s College
Dr A. Kareer David Clarke Research Fellow
Dr J. Kim Departmental Lecturer in Aberration Corrected Transmission Electron Microscopy
Dr E. Liotti Departmental Lecturer in Processing of Advanced Materials
Dr G. Mazur Departmental Lecturer in Materials for Quantum Technologies
Dr C. Patrick Departmental Lecturer in Materials Modelling
Dr M. Wright Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr T. Whitfield Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow
Dr C. Allen Senior Research Staff, ePSIC Principal Scientist
Dr P. Bagot Senior Atom Probe Scientist
Dr C. Johnston Senior Research Staff, OMCS Manager
Dr N.P. Young Senior Research Staff, DCCEM Manager

Dr T. Abdul Fattah
Dr P. Adamson
Dr J. Aspinall
Miss A. Austin
Dr T. Barthelay
Dr D. Biswas
Dr E. Bjorklund
Dr J. Bu
Dr M. Burton
Dr M. Cai
Dr Z. Cai
Dr W. Chan
Dr J. Chen
Dr T. Chen
Dr Z. Chen
Dr P. Cong
Dr E. Darnbrough
Dr S. De Sousa Coutinho
Dr C. Di Mino
Dr M. Du
Dr S. Falco*

Dr S. Feng
Dr M. Forghani
Dr M. Goode
Dr J. Gutierrez
Mr M. Hills
Dr T.C.D. Hobson
Dr C. Hofer
Dr X. Hou
Dr B. Hu
Dr Z. Huang
Dr G.M. Hughes
Dr J. Ihli
Dr B. Jenkins
Dr M. Jenkins
Mr N. Joinson
Dr L. Jones
Dr M. Jung
Dr K. Jurkschat
Dr R. Kerr
Dr T. Kim

Dr J. Lee
Dr J. Lewis
Dr W. Li
Dr L. Liu
Dr A.C-M. Lui
Dr B. Maciejewska
Dr G. Martinez Alanis
Dr N. Mason
Dr G.A.B.M. Matthews
Dr D. Melvin
Dr F. Mocanu
Dr J. O'Sullivan
Dr S. Olakkil Veedu
Dr A. Ortega Gomez
Dr S. Pazhaniswamy
Dr A. Poletayev
Dr G. Rees
Dr Z. Ren
Dr C.J. Salter

Dr R. Schofield
Dr C. Sherwin
Dr P. Shrestha
Dr M. Slota
Dr K. Song
Dr W. Song
Dr Y. Sun
Dr J. Swallow
Dr Y. Tan
Dr M. Tsang
Dr S. Turrell
Dr Vikram
Dr L. Wang
Dr M. Wang
Dr Z. Wang
Dr M. Wright
Dr S. Zankowski
Dr L. Zhou
Dr C. Zhu
Dr L. Zhu

Mrs F. Haswell-Martin Head of Administration and Finance
Mrs A. Lintern Head of Finance
Dr J.E. Roberts Research Finance Lead
Ms P.J. Moss Education Manager
Dr A.O. Taylor Director of Graduate Studies & UG Admissions Coordinator
Ms S. Edmunds-Ribierre HR Manager
Mr L.J. Chorley Buildings and Facilities Manager
Dr P.J. Warren IT Manager
Dr J. Scott Departmental Safety Officer
Ms H. Cotterill Outreach Manager

Administrative Support Staff

(Mrs K. Bamford)
(Mr L. Bennett)
Mrs R.L. Bradford
Mrs L. Bywater
Mr N. Cadman
(Mrs J. Carlin)
Miss H. Cotterill
Ms K.L. Davies
Ms M. Davies
(Mr L Douglas)

Mrs J. D'Souza
(Ms G. de Villiers)
Ms G Exley
(Mr S Forster)
(Mr A French)
Miss L. Hart
Miss T.K. Haydon
Mr T. Heath
Mrs S. Ijada

Mrs J.A. Kent
Miss S. King
Ms L.I. Laird
Ms J. Lopusinska
Dr L. Mapledoram
Mr T. McAree
Mr R. Morris
(Mr T Morrison)
Dr S. Najjar
Miss S. Nyagua

Miss L. O'Kane*
Mrs S.J. Pearce
Mr Z. Qu
Dr H. Rajantie
Mrs G. Sewell
(Mr A. Shelton)
(Mr I.J. Sutton)
(Mr G. Taylor)

Technical Support Staff 

Mr C.A-B. Akinola
Mr M.T. Ansari
(Mr S. Boyce)
Miss I Brikaite
Mr A.J. Brown

Mr J. Camilo Gutierrez
Dr R.I. Chakalova
Mr G. Cook
Mr D. DeBrincat*
Mr F. Dunleavey

(Mr P. Paling)
Mrs D. Passmore
Mr P. Pattinson
Mr M. Stanley

Dr E. Townsend
Mr R.W. Turner
Mr A.D. Wheeler
Mr G.A. Wyatt

 

Dr P Altermatt Visiting Professor, Trina Solar - SKL, China
Professor B. Cantor CBE, FRS FREng Visiting Professor, Brunel University
Professor R. Drautz Visiting Professor, ICAMS/Ruhr-University Bochum
Professor S.L. Dudarev Visiting Professor, Culham Centre for Fusion Energy
Professor J.B. Pethica FRS Visiting Professor, Trinity College Dublin
Dr A. Sebastian Visiting Professor, IBM Research Europe, Switzerland
   
Professor Sir Richard Brook OBE, FREng Emeritus Professor
Professor Andrew Briggs Emeritus Professor
Professor Sir Peter Hirsch FRS Emeritus Professor
Professor G.D.W. Smith FRS Emeritus Professor
Professor J.M. Sykes Emeritus Professor
   
Dr M.R. Gilbert Senior Visiting Fellow (CCFE)
Mr Stephen Heidari-Robinson Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in Energy Technology and Policy
Dr Duc Nguyen-Manh Senior Visiting Research Fellow (CCFE)
Prof. J. Titchmarsh Senior Visiting Research Fellow

Academic Visitors - updated 2025/01/26

Dr F. Adziman, Alloyed, UK
Dr P. Altermatt, Trina Solar - SKL, China
Dr F.E. Audebert, Buenos Aires University, Argentina
Dr D. Barba Cancho, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
Prof. L. Bogani, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy
Prof. R.H. Bradley, Robert Gordon University, UK
Dr A. Cackett, National Nuclear Laboratory, UK
Dr B. Caffrey, Rosalind Franklin Institute, UK
Dr A. Chakraborty, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Dr P. Chen, University of Sheffield, UK
Dr Y. Chen, University of Bath, UK
Dr A. Crossley, Department of Materials, University of Oxford, UK
Mr C. Cunningham, National Nuclear Laboratory, UK
Dr L. Daly, University of Glasgow, UK
Dr M. Danaie, Diamond Light Source, UK
Dr F. Dillon, Department of Materials, University of Oxford, UK
Dr B. Gabrys, Department of Materials, University of Oxford, UK
Dr M. Gallagher-Jones, The Rosalind Franklin Institute, UK
Dr H. Gardner, UKAEA, UK
Ms C. Goddard, Department of Materials, Oxford, UK
Dr J. Gong, Kings College London, UK
Dr Y. Gong, Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung, Germany
Dr D. Haley, Datamine Software, UK
Dr J. Haley, Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, UK
Dr C.D. Hardie, Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, UK
Dr S. Heidari-Robinson, Quartz Associates, UK
Dr H. Heptinstall, Imperial College, UK
Dr C. Huang, Rosalind Franklin Institute, UK
Dr J.M. Hyde, Wolfson College, Oxford, UK
Dr B. Jenkins, Department of Materials, University of Oxford, UK
Dr L. Jones, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
Dr T. Jones, Department of Materials, University of Oxford, UK
Dr M. Jordan, National Nuclear Laboratory, UK
Dr E. Khorani, University of Warwick, UK
Dr S. Kuksenko, UKAEA, UK
Dr M. Lefferts, Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands
Dr Z. L. Li, Imperial College, UK
Dr E. Liberti, Diamond Lightsource, UK
Dr A. Lister, Department of Materials, University of Oxford, UK
Dr J. Liu, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Dr Y. Liu, University of Leicester, UK
Dr Z. Liu, Sun-Yasen University, PR China
Dr I. Lobato Hoyos, Rosalind Franklin Institute, UK
Dr A. London, UKAEA
Dr T. Martin, Bristol University, UK
Prof G. McCartney, University of Nottingham, UK
Prof D. McComb, Ohio State University, USA
Dr J. Moghal, Oxford Advanced Surfaces, UK
Dr A. Mohamed, NPL, UK
Professor M.P. Moody, Australia
Dr S. Morishita, Jeol, Japan
Dr A. Mostaed, Rosalind Franklin Institute, UK
Prof J. Murphy, University of Warwick, UK
Dr S. Myhra, Griffith University, Australia
Dr J. Parkhurst, The Rosalind Franklin Institute, UK
Dr D. Payne, Macquarie University, Australia
Dr A. Pedrazo-Tardajos, The Rosalind Franklin Institute, UK
Dr M. Perez-Osorio, Mexico
Dr N. Pianta, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Dr T. Pirzada, Department of Materials, University of Oxford, UK
Prof. K. Porfyrakis, University of Greenwich, UK
Dr N. Pugno, Universita di Trento, Italy
Miss H. Richards, University of Bath, UK
Dr A. Robertson, University of Warwick, UK
Dr S. Singh, Koba Institutional Area, India
S. Sharma, University of Princeton, USA
Dr Y. Tang, University of Birmingham, UK
Dr M. Telling, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK
Dr S. Utada, NIMS, Japan
Dr A. Velazco-Torrejon, The Rosalind Franklin Institute, UK
E. Wackan, University of Glasgow, UK
Prof H. Wang, Nanjing Hydraulic Research Institute, Jiangsu Province, PR China
Prof P. Wang, Nanjing University, PR China
Dr P-D. Warren, Pilkington plc, UK
Dr S. Wilkinson, Reuben College, University of Oxford, UK
Prof P.R. Wilshaw, Department of Materials, University of Oxford, UK
Dr J. Wu, China University of Mining Technology, PR China
Dr Q. Yang, Department of Materials, University of Oxford, UK
Dr M. Yoshimoto, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Dr S. Yu, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
Dr Y. Zaychuk, UKAEA, UK
Dr T. Zillhardt, University of Manchester, UK

Visiting Recognised Students - updated 2025/02/25

Tushar Bhudia
Svenja Both
Joel Casella
Nikhita Law (MIT)
Jacqueline Prawira (MIT)

 

Abbiani, Luca
Adams, Kirk
Agarwal, Varnika
Aggarwal, Kushagra
Akinwale, Anthony
Almarri, Shatha
Alsahli, Abdulmohsen
Alshangiti, Omar
An, Lijin
Arber, Allison
Baker-Jones, Samantha
Balaji, Divya
Bali, Anjuli
Bauer, Bianca
Bechteler, Christian
Beggan, Sean
Bekler, Sevinc
Bennemann, Felix
Binder, Christian
Binford, Trevor
Boyd, Gregory
Bozkurt, Mehmet
Brown, Galen
Bulla, Andrew
Cai, Xiaohang
Campbell, Finlay
Cao, Mengzhen
Cattermull, John
Chandler, Alana
Chang, Yide
Chan, Hans
Chan, Timothy
Charlesworth, Pedr
Chart, Yvonne
Chau, Oi
Cheng, Qian
Chen, Guangzhao
Cheng, Xingrui
Chen, Hewen
Chen, Jingyan
Chen, Runze
Choudhury, Tahmid
Coulson, Matthew
Cui, Zhexin
Dai, Joshua
Dai, Liwei
Dai, Mingji
Davies, Carys
*Davies, Christopher
Dearlove, Jonathan
Dekker, Emily
De Nardi, Alessandro
Dewar, Daniel
Dexter, Jonathan
Dinca, Maria
Ding, Shenghuan
Ding, Zhiyuan
Ellingsson, Viktor
Engelhardt, Helen
Epstein, Boruch
Erol, Mahmut
Fang, Jiawei
Favell Gallifant, Cameron

Fihosy, Joseph
Follows, Frederick
Folwarczny, Martin
Forssberg, Axel
Furlan, Michael
Ge, Tairu
Ginnis, Thomas
Goh, Matthew
Goode, Michael
Gourlet, Romane
Greenaway, Ella
Grishchenko, Georgy
Grohmann, Clint
Guo, Zonghao
Gupta, Akhil
Guven, Muslum
He, Liusiyuan
He, Yuhan
Hoque, Shahnaz
Hortelano Roig, Daniel
Hoy, Stephen
Huang, Kairan
Huang, Po-Yuan
Huang, Xinrui
Huang, Zhijie
Ibanez Gomez, Laura
Jagger, Ben
Jeon, Minjun
Jin, Ruining
Jnane, Hamza
Jones, Elizabeth
Jones, Gareth
Jones, Hannah
Jousset-Drouhin, Amaury
Kerr, Robert
Kesavan, Sivasruthi
Kohler, Catherine
Korotov, Anne-Sophie
Kotakadi, Souhardh
Krüger, Marta
Kwok, Daniel
Lain Rodriguez, Laura
Lall, Deep
Landis, Maya
Larner, Rebecca
Lee, Man Yi
Lee, Ping-Yuan
Liang, Yi
Limkaichong, Justin
Lin, Mengjiang
Li, Sirui
Liu, Donghao
Liu, Houzhi
Liu, Jiapeng
Liu, Tongshan
Liu, Xinlei
Li Wang, Jiabin
Li, Weibin
Li, Yi
Li, Zixuan
Loeff, Tobias
Lubbad, Saleem
Lu, Qingchuan

Mai, Matt
Maitra, Soumyajit
Maity, Shreyam
*Marti Dafcik, Daniel
Ma, Xinyao
Ma, Zhaoying
McCollom, Henry
McGlothlen, Gregory
McQueen, James
Merotto, Simone
Metzler, Michael
Meyer, Benjamin
Milan, Emily
Milne, Tara
Miquel, Melvin
Mitchell, Nicole
Mo, Chunxi
Morgan, Sharon
Mothatego, Thapelo
Mushangwe, Lizzie
Nama, Rajat
Nauriyal, Shivansh
Ng, Kai
Niu, Xinya
Okhrymenko, Marharyta
Olbrich, Lorenz
Ong, Maxine
O'Sullivan, Eoin
O'Sullivan, John
Payne, Bartholomew
*Pearson, Sebastian
Perera, Johann
Phelan, Conor
Picheo, Eugenio
Pi, Liquan
Potter, Harry
Pratt, James
Pujilaksono, Lazuardi
Qian, Jiangrui
Qi, Rui
Qi, Wenzhao
Quan, Yuan
Rahman, Syed
Ramanathan, Arun
Ramesh, Namrata
Rattew, Arthur
Reavley, Matthew
Ricci, Beatrice
Richardson, Ewan
Rivers, Kieran
Rychetsky, Marek
Sabnani, Serena
Samani, Keivan
Scales, Robin
Schofield, Ryan
Schuff, Jonas
Shao, Ziyue
Shen, Chen
Shen, Shih-Yun
Shi, Yifu
Shu, Ruiying
Siegel, Adam
ingh, Jasper
Siracosit, Sarawut
Song, Zirui
Srinivasan, Nayantara
Staines, Michael
Sun, Yalun
Sun, Zhu
Su, Xiao
Tang, Yongxiang
Tariq, Wajahat
Taskin, Ruveyda
Tebbutt, George
Telford, Sean
Thomas, Oliver
Thompson, Holly
Toftevaag, Haavard
Towell, Sophie
Trevadia, Darshit
Tufnail, James
Tyagi, Sparsh
Ungermann, Katharina
Usuki, Hirokazu
Vuksic, Marin
Wang, Liren
Wang, Yan
Wang, Yu
Warman, Philippa
Wilkinson, Daniel
Williamson, Marcus
Winger, Joshua
Witte, Rebecca
Wu, Zheng
Xie, Junlong
Xiong, Yuelin
Xu, Hang
Xu, Yiming
Yang, Lechen
Yang, Shun
Yang, Tianjia
Yang, Yunqing
Yin, Yumeng
Young, Bradley
Yuan, Yi
Zagura, Petr
Zanre, Alessandro
Zelin, Benjamin
Zhang, Jieming
Zhang, Minyi
Zhang, Shengming
Zhang, Weiyi
Zhang, Wenyu
Zhang, Yi
Zhang, Zikang
Zhao, Junyi
Zheng, Qianfang
Zhong, Huien
Zhong, Sijing
Zhong, Zhiyang
Zhou, Jin
Zhuge, Yuhan
Zhu, Yimin
Zhu, Yuanhui
Zotkin, Sergei

* enrolled in different department but working in Materials

Undergraduate Students ( 4th Year 2024-2025 )

Banks, Enyala
Batchelor, Thomas
Belz-Koeling, Lucas
Bennett, James
Bignell, James
Bourdeaux, Fabian
Coombs, Milo
Cooper-Brown, Isabella
Craig, Alexander
Craven, David
Dedrick, Toby
Fernandez-Victorio, Isabel
Folkes, Toby
George, Thomas
Gooddy, Alex
Gregory, Madeline
Hargreaves, Evie
Hindson, Peter
Hou, Zhuojun
Jain, Nirali
Keates, Benedict
Lai, Veronica
Lancaster, Tom
Lander, Abigail
Manduku, Ariana
Nixon, Daniel
Rajesh, Upasana
Savanevskis, Ramunas
Stratton, Inigo
Sun, Qianyi
Ter, Shin
Wang, Yintong
Weal, Emily
Wheatley, Charlotte
Whitehead, Thomas
Wolny, Zofia
Wong, Lucius
Wright, Harry
Zhang, Renkai
Zheng, Shuzhe
Zhou, Ruidong
Zhu, Lin