Former members

Former Postdocs and Senior Research Fellows

Dr Youngkwang Jung, Postdoc and Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, 2022-2025 (InnoCORE Fellow, UNIST)

Dr Linfeng Pan, Postdoc and Leverhulme ECR Fellow, 2020-2025 (Associate Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

Dr Miguel Anaya, Former Light Emission Sub-Group Leader, Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, Leverhulme Fellow and RAEng Fellow, 2018-2024 (Assistant Professor at University of Seville)

Dr Eunyoung Choi, Postdoc, 2023-2025 (Postdoctoral Researcher, KyungHee University)

Dr Jian Mao, Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, 2022-2024 (Assistant Professor, Fudan University)

Dr Satya Nagane, Newton International Fellow, 2019-2024 (Industry)

Dr Javad Shamsi, Postdoc, 2018-2023 (Cavendish Lab, Cambridge)

Dr Bart Roose, Former Light Harvesting Sub-Group Leader, Postdoc, 2020-2023 (Senior Device Engineer, Quantum Solutions)

Dr Changsoon Cho, Postdoc, 2021-2023 (Assistant Professor, Pohang University of Science and Technology)

Dr Simon Kahmann, Former Spectroscopy Sub-Group Leader, Postdoc and Leverhulme ECR Fellow2021-2023 (Junior Professor, Chemnitz University of Technology)

Dr Szymon Zelewski, Bekker Postdoctoral Fellowshop, 2021-2023 (Assistant Professor, University of Wroclaw)

Dr Terry Chien-Jen Yang, Former Academic Manager, Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, 2021-2023 (Technical Lead at SunDrive Solar)

Dr Dengyang Guo, Postdoc, 2020-2023 (Research Assistant Professor, HKUST)

Dr Beth Tennyson, Former Impact Sub-Group Leader, Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, 2018-202 (Centre for Global Equality & The Cambridge Centre for Inclusive Innovation, University of Cambridge)

Dr Juliane Borchert, Postdoc, 2020-2022 (Group Leader, Fraunhofer ISE)

Dr Krzysztof Galkowski, Former Spectroscopy Sub-Group Leader, Mobilnosc Polish Academy of Sciences Postdoc Fellowship, 2018-2021 (Assistant Professor, University of Wroclaw)

Dr Dominik Kubicki, Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, 2019-2021 (Assistant Professor, University of Birmingham)

Dr Linsong Cui, Postdoc, 2020-2021 (Assistant Professor, University of Science and Technology of China)

Dr Geraud Delport, Newton International Fellow, 2018-2020 (Permanent Scientist, CNRS Paris)

Dr Felix Lang, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellowship, 2019-2020 (Group Leader, University of Potsdam)

Former PhD Students

Dr Melissa Fitzsimmons, CDT in Photonic and Electronic Systems, 2021-2025 (Operational Researcher at the Ministry of Justice)

Dr Zher Ying Ooi, St John's College Studentship, 2020-2024

Dr Alice Dearle, NanoDTC, 2019-2024

Dr Youcheng Zhang, NanoDTC, 2019-2024 (Postdoc, Cavendish Laboratory)

Dr Kieran Orr, EPSRC DTP Studentship, 2019-2024 (Stanford Energy Fellow, Stanford University)

Dr Simone Eizagirre-Barker, NanoDTC, 2020-2024 Primary Supervisor Mete Atatüre (Product Manager, Nu Quantum)

Dr Tiarnan Doherty, NUI Travelling Studentship, 2017-2021; Postdoc (Oppenheimer Fellow) and Schmidt Fellow 2021 - 2024

Dr Kangyu Ji, 2017-2023 (Purdue 2025-;Postdoc, MIT 2023-2024)

Dr Jordi Ferrer Orri, NanoDTC, 2019- 2023 (Startup)

Dr Affan Iqbal, 2019-2023 (Energy consulting)

Dr Anna Abfalterer, Royal Society Studentship, 2018-2023 (Postdoc, LMU Munich)

Dr Alan Baldwin, 2019-2023 (Postdoc, University of Oxford)

Dr Kyle Frohna, Winton Studentship, Schiff Studentship, EPSRC DTP Studentship, 2018-2022; Postdoc and Former Spectroscopy Sub-Group Leader, 2023 (Stanford Energy Fellow, Stanford University)

Dr Kaiwen Zhang, NanoDTC, Primary Supervisor Prof. Laura Torrente, 2018-2023 (Helio Display Materials, Oxford)

Dr Krishanu Dey, Cambridge Trusts Studentship, 2018-2023 (Postdoc, University of Oxford)

Dr Zahra Andaji-Garmaroudi, Winton Studentship, 2016-2020; Postdoc together with University of Pavia 2020-2022 (Finance)

Dr Edoardo Ruggeri, 2017-2022; Postdoc 2022 (Renewable energy consultant, CBRE UK)

Dr Yu-Hsien Chiang, Cambridge Trusts Studentship, 2018-2022 (Principal Engineer, TSMC)

Dr Oliver Moseley, EPSRC DTP Studentship, 2018-2022 (Patent attorney, Elkington + Fife)

Dr Alan Bowman, Winton Studentship, PV CDT, 2017-2021; Postdoc 2021-2022 (Postdoctoral Researcher, EPFL)

Dr Stuart Macpherson, EPSRC DTP Studentship, 2017-2021; Postdoc 2021 (Optical Engineer, OxONN)

Dr Stephanie Adeyemo, Primary Supervisor Prof. Hannah Joyce, 2016-2021; Junior Research Fellow, UCam, 2022 - 

Dr Camille Stavrakas, NanoDTC, 2017-2019 (R&D Engineer, PsiQuantum)

Sabbatical Visitors and Visiting Researchers

Joudi Al Almadi, June 2025 - Sept 2025

Peihao Huang, June 2025- Sept 2025

Prof. Hanwei Gao, March - July 2024 (Associate Professor, Florida State University)

Prof. Annamaria Petrozza, June - July 2023; July - August 2025 (Senior Researcher, Italian Institute of Technology)

Prof. Mario Caironi, June - July 2023 (Senior Researcher, Italian Institute of Technology)

Prof. Rebecca Belisle, March - August 2023 (Knafel Assistant Professor of Natural Sciences; Assistant Professor of Physics, Wellesley College)

Prof. Dr Wouter Van Gompel, March - June 2023 (Assistant Professor at Hasselt University)

Former Support Staff

Charli Hendy, PA to Professor Sam Stranks, 2023-2024

Elena Avila, Lab and Programme Manager, 2022-2023

Visiting Students and Interns

Sara Caepic, Feb 2025- Sept 2025 (University of Bologna)

Jaehui Kim, June 2023 - Dec 2023 (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)

Zhenyao Jiang, June - Aug 2023 (University of Cambridge)

Ayla Dekker, Feb- July 2023 (University of Utrecht)

Chiara Ongaro, Feb - July 2023 (PhD Student, EPFL)

Jiawei Chen, Mar 2022 - Jan 2023 (Nanjing University of Science and Technology)

David O'Shea, July - Aug 2022 (NanoFutures Scholars intern through Nano DTC)

Elena Cabello Olmo, July - Aug 2022

Renjun Guo, April - June 2022 (Technical University Munich)

Finn Beiglbock, Oct 2021 - Jan 2022

Aida Drevilkauskaitė, Nov 2021- January 2022 (KTU)

Bianca Gevers, Oct - Nov 2021 (University of Pretoria)

Xian Wei Chua, July - Oct 2021 (Undergraduate at University of Cambridge)

Pau Molet, May - June 2021 (ICMAB, Spain)

Nathan Daem, Feb 2020 (University of Liege)

Rosemonde Chahbazian, April - July 2019 (Paris Sarclay)

Tingjun Zhang, June - Aug 2018 (Undergraduate at Clare College, Cambridge)

Daniel Ramirez, Jan - March 2018 (University of Antioquia)

Zhuo (Joe) Yang, Feb 2017 (CNRS-Toulouse)

NanoDTC Mini Students