Materials

Ainara has two prvious years of industrial experience as a research assistant at Inasmet. During this period, her research focussed on the synthesis and purification of carbon nanotubes. She completed her PhD in Chemistry, which was a direct collaboration between the University and Tecnalia; here she applied the fundamentals of the chemistry of carbon nanomaterials as technological solution. After this, she moved to the University of Trieste in Italy as part of the group of Excellence for Nanostructured Materials (CENMAT), and then onto a short post-doc at the Department of Biomaterials and Nanotechnology in the Health Unit of Tecnalia.

Almudena obtained her Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry from the Fritz-Haber Institute of the Max-Planck Society (Berlin, Germany),  where she collaborated with academic and industrial partners. Her doctorate focussed on synthesis, characterization and catalytic testing of metal oxide catalysts in the selective oxidation of propane.

Chris Kay moved to UCL in 2006 as Senior Lecturer and is PI in both the LCN and the Institute of Structural & Molecular Biology (UCL / Birkbeck). He studied chemistry at the University of Oxford, where he remained for his PhD, and first developed his interest in processes involving free radicals.

David Chadwick obtained his PhD in Chemistry from University College London. He then spent 2 years at the University of British Columbia as NATO fellow, before joined Imperial College Chemical Engineering in 1974.

Professor George Guo-Qiang CHEN received his BSc and PhD from South China University of Technology in 1985 and Graz University of Technology (Austria) in 1989, he also conducted research in 1990-1994 as a postdoc at University of Nottingham in UK and University of Alberta in Canada, respectively.

Ivan Parkin's PhD studies were in main group synthetic chemistry and that produced 20 publications in international Journals.  Post-doctoral study was in metal- metal multiply bonded chemistry and produced 10 publications.  

Professor Jawwad Darr received his PhD in Chemistry from Imperial College London. His post-doctoral studies were aimed at developing volatile metal–organic CVD precursors to solid oxide fuel cells and secondly, at the University of Nottingham, developing greener supercritical fluid routes to catalyst preparation and nanomaterials.

Maurice is a physical chemist with research experience on various experimental systems ranging from bio membranes and clay to colloidal (liquid) crystals and nanomaterials. Prior to joining BNC he worked at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He obtained a PhD from Utrecht University for research on colloidal systems of anisometric particles using various microscopic and scattering techniques.

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.

Stephen A Lynch is a Senior Lecturer and EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow at the School of Pysics and Astronomy, Cardiff University. He joined Cardiff in 2011 following a successful research career at the LCN and previously the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.