Fangyuan is a PhD student in the Theory and Simulation of Materials CDT at Imperial College London. She is working on how ultrafast optical excitation can be used to control structural changes in multiferroic materials such as ferroelectric domain reversal and photo-induced domain nucleation. This will help develop basic physical understanding of perovskite multiferroics and open new possibilities in the design and optimisation of optically controlled devices. Apart from science, she enjoys travelling, reading detective fictions and doing adventure sports like diving and paragliding.

Roya is a PhD student in theoretical chemical physics at the University of Toronto. She uses numerical schemes to understand the role of quantum effects in the thermal conduction properties of interacting systems, and to compare these exact results to classical simulations and to the quantum behaviour under the linear-response approximation. Outside of science her passion is fashion which has been started with girl power. She believes fashion empowers women and makes them feel the best version of themselves.

Patrick is a PhD student at University College London and the London Centre for Nanotechnology. He is working on the development of accurate interatomic potentials using machine learning - teaching models using large databases of quantum mechanical information. In his spare time you'll often find him rock climbing or building and playing synthesizers.