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Group Members

Currently our group consists of:

Simon Beaumont

Group Leader

PDRAs:

Li Li

Postdoc Co-supervised with Phil Dyer – working on an industry funded project focused on catalyst materials.

PhDs:

Kathryn MacIntosh

PhD student working on biomass hydrogen catalysis (started Oct ’18).

Majed Almashnowi

PhD student working on nanomaterial catalyst synthesis (aiming to understand aspects of diffusion phenomena on heterogeneous catalysts) (started Oct ’18).

Nargiz Novruzova

PhD student  working on bimetallic reforming catalysts as part of the EU MSC ITN “BIKE” (https://www.bike-msca.eu/) network (started Jan ’20, cosupervised by Phil Dyer).

Alana Smith

Cosupervised PhD student (with Phil Dyer) working on synthesis of novel catalyst materials as an iCASE award project with Johnson Matthey (started Oct ’17).

Eder Olivas-Ramos

Cosupervised PhD student (with Phil Dyer) – Eder’s project is on Fisher-Tropsch chemistry and supported by the Mexican Government CONACYT energy funding programme. (started Aug ’18).

Richard Chilvers

Cosupervised PhD student (with Phil Dyer) working on polymer directed assembly of nanoparticle catlaysts as part of the SOFI CDT.

Vera Bieber

Cosupervised PhD student (with Jas Pal Badyal) working on surface functionalization for water purification.

Amy Marsh

PhD student working on spectroscopy of catalysts (started Oct ’20).

Zixuan Han

PhD student working on nanomaterial catalysts for hydrogenation reactions (started Oct ’20).