Our Experts

Gabriel Aeppli is the Quain Professor of Physics and the Director of the London Centre for Nanotechnology. Prior to taking up these posts in the autumn of 2002, he was a Senior Research Scientist for NEC (Princeton), a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories, a Research Assistant at MIT, and an industrial co-op student at IBM.

Tony Cass is currently Professor of Chemical Biology, Deputy Director and Research Director (Bionanotechnology) in the Institute of Biomedical Engineering at Imperial College London and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He trained originally as a chemist with degrees from the Universities of York and Oxford.

Tom Duke has a PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Cambridge and has twenty years of experience in interdisciplinary research, applying physical principles to the study of biological systems.

Arokia Nathan holds the Sumitomo/STS Chair of Nanotechnology at the London Centre for Nanotechnology, University College London and is a recipient of the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award. He is also the CTO of Ignis Innovation Inc., Waterloo, Canada, a company he founded to commercialize technology on thin film silicon backplanes on rigid and flexible substrates for large area electronics.

Neal Skipper obtained his PhD in 1987 from the Department of Physics at Bristol University, for research into the alkali metal ions in water using neutron and X-ray scattering. He was postdoctoral research assistant in the Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford University, from 1987-1991.

Neil Curson is a Lecturer at UCL in the Department of Electrical Engineering and is a PI in the LCN. His research interests are centred around understanding and controlling the behaviour of atoms and molecules at surfaces and the development and deployment of new scanning probe lithography techniques, towards fabrication of nanoscale electronic devices and atomic-scale components for quantum information processing.

Ian Gilmore joined NPL in 1991 to develop the promising technique secondary ion mass spectrometry for the analysis of organic surfaces. Ian pioneered the underpinning metrology for this technique and innovated a powerful new method G-SIMS, which provided a step-change in the ability to identify complex molecules at surfaces (for which he was awarded the Institute of Physics Paterson medal 2004).

Stephen A Lynch is an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow and a member of the academic staff at both the London Centre for Nanotechnology and the Department of Physics and Astronomy. He joined UCL at the beginning 2007 following a successful research career at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.

Rachel McKendry is Reader in Biomedical Nanoscience at the London Centre for Nanotechnology & Division of Medicine, University College London and is internationally recognized for her application of the tools of nanotechnology to probe chemical and biomolecular interactions.

Robert comes from an industrial diagnostic background at Unilever, Unipath and Inverness Medical where his experience has been in bio-diagnostic research and product development

Prof Milo Shaffer is a Reader in Nanomaterials Chemistry at Imperial College London. He has extensive experience of carbon and inorganic nanotube/nanorod synthesis, modification, characterisation, and application.

Alex has over fifteen years experience in surface science and biomaterials and is an internationally recognised expert in the field of surface modification for biotechnological applications.

Dr Paul Warburton is an international authority on nanoscale electronic devices, including Josephson junctions, superconducing nanowires and compound semiconductor nanocrystals.