Our Team
Razak Elmaslmane
University of York
Razak is a PhD student working on making improvements to one of the candidates for the next generation of solar cells. His research is focused on modelling charge carriers in metal oxide materials and improving their mobility. During his free time he operates as a secret vigilante trying to save the world, which takes up a lot of his time. He enjoys playing squash and doing other exercise.
Fangyuan Gu
Imperial College London
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.
James Finley
Imperial College London
James is a Mechanical Engineering PhD student studying High Performance Ductile Composite Technology (HiPerDuCT) at Imperial College London. His research investigates how to make strong, lightweight materials that can bend and twist significantly before failure; the main application of this research is in the aerospace sector (e.g. composite fan blades for a jet engine). When James isn’t working you will probably find him on his narrowboat, the maintenance of which is a full-time job within itself!
Kaspar Haume
The Open University
Kaspar is a Marie Curie research fellow in the EU project ARGENT (Advanced Radiotherapy Generated by Exploiting Nanoprocesses and Technologies) and PhD student at the Open University. His work is focused on molecular dynamics simulations of coated nanoparticles intended for reducing side-effects of cancer radiotherapy. Outside of work Kaspar enjoys playing golf or squash, or flipping dem vinyls, brah. kkthxbye
Roya Moghaddasi
University of Toronto
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.
Nikoletta Prastiti
Imperial College London
Nikoletta is a PhD student in the Centre for Doctoral Training on Theory and Simulation of Materials at Imperial College London. Her research focuses in modelling fatigue at the microscale for commercially important alloys used in the aerospace industry. Her interests range from exploring nature, cycling, playing the piano, to reading about business, finance, entrepreneurship and science outreach, amongst others.
Bianca Provost
University of Cambridge
Bianca is a PhD Student in the Department of Chemistry's Surface
Science Group at the University of Cambridge. She is using atomistic
modelling techniques to better understand the mode of action of
molecules used to protect steel surfaces from acid corrosion. This
project is carried out in close collaboration with oilfield services
provider Schlumberger Ltd. In her free time, Bianca enjoys Zumba,
reading autobiographies and playing console video games.
Patrick Rowe
University College London
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.
Andrew Warwick
Imperial College London
Andrew is a PhD student in the Theory and Simulation of Materials Centre of Doctoral Training at Imperial College London. His research involves modelling and calculating the properties of Hybrid Halide Perovskites, a very promising class of materials for applications in photovoltaic devices. Outside of work you can find him playing the violin in orchestra, practising piano and training in Chinese martial arts.
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