Technical & Administrative Support

Dr. Peter Knight

Group technician

Contact: pjkk1@cam.ac.uk

Ana Talaban-Bailey

PA to Prof. Manish Chhowalla

Contact: ajt69@cam.ac.uk

Instrumentation Scientist

Dr. Shaoliang Guan

Joined us in December 2023

Received BSc from Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China and MSc in Chemical Enzymology from Queen's University Belfast, and PhD in Electrochemistry at Cardiff University.

Research interests: surface science; catalysis; XPS; DFT

Contact: sg2156@cam.ac.uk
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Postdoctoral Fellows

Dr. Zhuangnan Li

Joined us in February 2020

Research Fellow (King's College)
Herchel Smith Fellow

Received PhD in Chemistry from University College London in 2019

Research interests: batteries; cathodes in Li-S batteries
 

Contact: zl450@cam.ac.uk
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Dr. Ismail Sami

Joined us in October 2019

EPSRC IAA Fellow
ERC PoC Fellow
Faraday Institution Research Fellow

Received MRes in Graphene Technology from University of Cambridge in 2019 and MPhys in Theoretical Physics from University of Manchester in 2018

Research interests: biomimetic electrochemical actuators using 2D materials
 

Contact: is448@cam.ac.uk
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Dr. Kamal Kumar Paul

Joined us in February 2024

Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Professor at CINAP, Sungkyunkwan University(2022 - 2023) Postdoctoral Research Fellow at CINAP, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU)(2019 - 2022)

Research interests: Hot-carrier photovoltaics; van der Waals heterostructures; carrier multiplication; optoelectronic devices

Contact: kkp26@cam.ac.uk
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Postdoctoral Research Associates

Dr. Yan Wang

Joined us in October 2016

Received PhD in Materials Science from University of Cambridge in 2021
 

Research interests: contacts on 2D semiconductors; power-efficient devices; optoelectronic devices based on transition metal dichalcogenides

Contact: yw472@cam.ac.uk
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Dr. Yang Li

Joined us in October 2019

Received PhD in Materials Science from University of Cambridge in 2020 and BS degree in Engineering from Tsinghua University in 2012. 

Research interests: understanding the role of magnetism in catalytic 2D ferromagnetic materials
 

Contact: yl539@cam.ac.uk
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Dr. Soumya Sarkar

Joined us in March 2021

Received PhD from National University of Singapore in 2019.

Research interests: 2D materials; mixed-dimensional heterostructures; nanoelectronic and optoelectronic devices

Contact: ss2806@cam.ac.uk
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Dr. Jung-In Lee

Joined us in April 2021

Received PhD in Energy Engineering from Ulsan National Institute of Science & Technology (UNIST) in 2014. 

Research interests: energy storage & conversion materials; metal-sulfur batteries; metal-air batteries

Contact: jil29@cam.ac.uk
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Dr. Ye Wang

Joined us in January 2022

Received PhD in Physical Chemistry from University of Strasbourg, France in 2021. 

Research interests: functionalization of 2D materials; (opto)electronic and memory devices

Contact: yw596@cam.ac.uk
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Dr. Wenshuo Xu

Joined us in July 2022

Received PhD in Materials from University of Oxford in 2019. 

Research interests: low-dimensional materials; heterostructures; TMDs; electrocatalysis; CVD

Contact: wx256@cam.ac.uk
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Graduate Students

Han Yan

Joined us in October 2019

Received B.Eng. in Mechanical and Materials Systems from the Australian National University in 2019
 

Research interests: 2D materials-based devices; contacts between 2D materials and dielectric layers
 

Contact: hy346@cam.ac.uk
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Yiru Zhu

Joined us in October 2019

Received MRes from Imperial College London in 2019 and BS from Wuhan University of Technology in 2018

Research interests: Atomic scale defects in 2D materials

Contact: yz630@cam.ac.uk
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James Moloney

Joined us in October 2020

Received MSci in Materials Science & Metallurgy from University of Cambridge in 2019

Research interests: Batteries; solid-state electrolytes; polymer/ceramic composite electrolytes

Contact: jm2062@cam.ac.uk
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Jiahang Li

Joined us in October 2020

Received Bsc in Environmental Science from Jilin University in 2018

Research interests: Electrocatalysis, water splitting, electric & magnetic fields in catalysis

Contact: jl2131@cam.ac.uk
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Maheera Abdul Ghani

Joined us in October 2021

Received M.Sc. in Functionalised Advanced Materials Engineering from Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Germany and Grenoble INP, France in 2021

Research interests: 2D materials; nanoelectronic devices

Contact: mag98@cam.ac.uk
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Jeffrey Yang

Joined us in October 2021

Received B.ASc in Materials Engineering from University of Toronto in 2021

Research interests: Transition metal dichalcinides as batteries materials

Contact: zy325@cam.ac.uk
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Han Zang

Joined us in October 2021

Received MRes in Microelectronics from Nanjing University, China (2021) and BEng in Materials Science and Engineering from Wuhan University of Technology, China (2020)

Research interests: Lithium metal anodes; 2D materials for Li-ion batteries

Contact: hz378@cam.ac.uk
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Esther Gray

Joined us in January 2023

Received MChem with industrial experience from the University of Bradford (2022)

Research interests: Batteries; Li-S batteries; LiSTAR Project with The Faraday Institution

Contact: elg64@cam.ac.uk
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Wong Jun Yao Andrew

Joined us in October 2023

Received BEng (First Class Honors) in Materials Science and Engineering from the National University of Singapore (2021)

Research interests: Batteries; Na-S batteries; Li-S batteries; Solid-State Electrolytes

Contact: jyaw2@cam.ac.uk
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Juveiriah Mohammed Ashraf

Joined us in December 2023

Received BSc (Highest Honors) in Sustainable and Renewable Energy Engineering from the University of Sharjah (2017) and MSc in Materials Science and Engineering from the Khalifah University of Science and Technology (2019)

Research interests: Nanomaterials; Nanoelectronics; Batteries

Contact: jma202@cam.ac.uk
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