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2D Materials and Devices Group

Maheera Abdul Ghani

 

Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy,
University of Cambridge,
27 Charles Babbage Road,
Cambridge, CB3 0FS

mag98@cam.ac.uk

 

Education

  • PhD candidate, University of Cambridge (UK), Materials Science and Metallurgy, 2021-Pres. (Supervisor: Prof. Manish Chhowalla)
  • M.Sc. Functionalized Advanced Materials Engineering, Technische Universität Darmstadt( Germany) & Grenoble INP (France), 2021.
  • B.Eng. (Hons), University of Engineering & Technology UET Lahore( Pakistan) Metallurgical & Materials Engineering, 2019.

 

Honors & Awards

  • Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree (EMJMD) scholarship award, 2019
  • Highest CGPA Achiever Metallurgical & Materials Engineering, UET Lahore, 2019
  • Pakistan Tobacco Company Gold Medal, Metallurgical & Materials Engineering, UET Lahore, 2019
  • High Merit Scholarship, UET Lahore, 2018

 

Research Experience:

Laboratoire des Matériaux et du Génie Physique (LMGP), CNRS, Grenoble-INP, France(2021) : Fabrication of transparent conductive electrodes (TCEs) for efficient integration in inorganic photovoltaics via deposition of silver nanowires (AgNW) networks

 
Advanced Research lab-Theory of Magnetic Materials Group, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany (2020):Constructed flexible machine learning algorithm through Crystal Graph Convolutional        Neural Network model(CGCNN) for band gap prediction of 2D materials.

 
GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research Darmstadt, Germany (2019): preparation of Ion radiated polymer samples for nanowire fabrication by ion-track technology in heavy ion beam accelerator.

 

Contact Information

   mag98@cam.ac.uk

Latest Happenings in the 2DMD Sphere

2D TMDs Conference 2025

After the success of the 2D TMDs Conference in Cambridge and Hong Kong, the conference is back in Cambridge next year! The conference will gather leading researchers from academia and industry to present cutting-edge research in the field of atomically thin TMDs and related materials for fields including electronics, photonics, and energy storage. Click https://www.2dtmds2025.com/  to find out more and register!

20th - 24th July 2025

New Paper Alert!

Check out our latest paper "Effect of Substrate on Sulfur Vacancy Defect-Mediated Photoluminescence in Two-Dimensional MoS2" in the Journal of Physical Chemistry C here.

18th April 2025

New Paper Alert!

Check out our latest paper "Mapping Polysulfides in Sodium–Sulfur Batteries" in ACS Nano here.

28th February 2025

Group dinner with Prof. Jieun and Prof. Sakaushi!

The Group enjoyed a lovely dinner at The Old Spring to wrap up the week!

21st February 2025

Seminar by Prof. Sakaushi!

A very interesting talk by Prof. Sakaushi from NIMS, Japan on "Expanding the limit of human’s capability with artificial intelligence for accelerated discovery of advanced electrochemical materials" to end the week!

21st February 2025

Congratulations Dr. Li!

Congratulations to our latest PhD graduate, Dr. Li! We wish you all the best in your next step in life and we will miss you dearly!

21st February 2025

Seminar by Prof. Jieun Yang

It was great to have Prof. Yang, a former post-doc in the group give a talk on "Synthesis of two-dimensional iron sulfides for energy applications"!

19th February 2025