Academic staff
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Prof Anthony V PowellHe graduated from the University of Oxford and, after postdoctoral work at Oxford, joined Heriot-Watt University as a lecturer in inorganic chemistry, where he was subsequently promoted to Reader and to Professor. In 2013, he joined the University of Reading as Head of Department in Chemistry. |
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Dr Paz VaqueiroShe holds BSc and PhD degrees from the University of Santiago de Compostela and was awarded an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship (2004-2008) for the investigation of new thermoelectric materials. She was a lecturer at Heriot-Watt University (2008-2013) and in 2013 she joined the University of Reading as a lecturer in Materials Chemistry, where she was subsequently promoted to Associate Professor.Publication list |
Postdoctoral Researchers
Dr Daniel FriedrichPostdoctoral visitor Supervisor: Anthony PowellPublication list |
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Dr Shriparna MukherjeePostdoctoral Reseach Associate Supervisors: Paz Vaqueiro, Anthony Powell and David Voneshen (ISIS) Shriparna is working on a project funded by The Leverhulme Trust, entitled Understanding ultralow thermal conduction in copper-containing sulfides.
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Dr Sahil TippireddyPostdoctoral Reseach Associate Supervisors: Anthony Powell and Paz Vaqueiro Sahil works on a GCRF project, funded by EPSRC, entitled From the Indian Copper Belts to Chulhas: Affordable Thermoelectric Materials for Rural India. |
PhD and MSc students
Yunhe CaiYear 3 PhD student Supervisors: Paz Vaqueiro and Ann ChippindaleProject: Solvothermal synthesis of hybrid iodides |
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Alaa AldowieshYear 1 PhD student Supervisors: Anthony Powell and Paz VaqueiroProject: Materials Containing Earth-Abundant Elements For Energy Applications |
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Natasha OrmerodYear 1 PhD student Supervisors: Anthony Powell and Ricardo Grau-Crespo |
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Callum AbercrombyMsc student Supervisors: Paz Vaqueiro and Anthony PowellProject: Copper Tin sulphides as thermoelectric materials |
Previous group members:
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Dr Son D. N. LuuSupervisor: Paz Vaqueiro Son joined our group in 2011 and completed his PhD in 2015. His project focused on oxychalcogenide thermoelectric materials, and was funded by the Energy Technology Partnership and European Thermodynamics Ltd. |
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Dr Gabin GuélouSupervisors: Anthony Powell and Paz VaqueiroGabin completed his PhD in 2016 and is currently a postdoctoral researcher at CRISMAT (France). He holds a D.U.T. in Chemistry (Institut Universitaire et Technologique de Rouen, France) and an MChem in Chemistry (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh). He first joined the solid-state chemistry group at Heriot-Watt in 2009 for his D.U.T. project, later in 2011 for his MChem project and finally for his PhD in 2012. For his PhD he investigated cost-efficient thermoelectric materials based on sulphides. |
Jiale WangMSc student Supervisors: Paz Vaqueiro and Ann ChippindaleProject: Oxysulfides for thermoelectric applications (2016) |
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Dr Jesús Prado-GonjalJesús finished his BSc and MSc studies in Chemistry at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and then he earned his PhD degree at the same University in the field of microwave –assisted synthesis of oxide materials. He joined this group in April 2014 as postdoctoral researcher in thermoelectric materials. His work was funded by the EPSRC project Identifying Cost Effective Routes To Optimised Energy Recovery For The Fuel Economy Of Vehicles |
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Dr John LampkinSupervisors: Anthony Powell and Ann Chippindale John completed his PhD in January
2018. He obtained an MChem chemistry degree (with a year in
industry) at the University of Reading. His industry
placement was at Intrinsiq Ltd in Farnborough, synthesising
and characterising phosphor nanomaterials, whereas for his
final year project he investigated organic semiconductors of
tetrathienoacenes. His PhD project focused on the investigation of
antimony-based chalcogenides to form open-framework
structures,created through
solvothermal synthesis. |
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Dr Panagiotis MangelisSupervisors: Anthony Powell and Paz VaqueiroPanagiotis completed his PhD in 2017. He has a BSc degree in Physics from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and an MSc degree in Materials for Sustainable and Renewable Energies from the Department of Chemistry of Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. His PhD project focused on the research of new high-performance thermoelectric materials, involving the synthesis, structural characterization and physical property measurements of a range of novel mixed-metal sulphides and selenides. |
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Dr Sarah MakinSupervisors: Paz Vaqueiro and Anthony Powell |
Shoeb AtharMSc student Supervisors: Paz Vaqueiro and Anthony PowellProject: New thermoelectric sulphides and oxychalcogenides (2018) |
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Benjamin VelickovicMSc student Supervisors: Anthony Powell and Ann ChippindaleProject: Solvothermal synthesis of transition-metal sulphates (2018) |
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Dr Sebastian LongSupervisors: Anthony Powell, Paz Vaqueiro and Steve Hull (ISIS)Sebastian completed his PhD in 2020. His PhD project involved the synthesis, charecterisation and property measurements on copper sulphide based thermoelectric materials. He is also working on a collaborative project with the ISIS neutron facility that will allow for in-situ power-factor/ neutron diffraction experiments on the POLARIS beam line. |
Dr Jethro Beamish-CookSupervisors: Paz Vaqueiro and Ken ShanklandJethro completed his PhD in 2020. His PhD project concerned MOFs for drug delivery. |
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Sana Mohammad MurtazaMSc student Supervisors: Paz Vaqueiro and Anthony PowellProject: Synthesis and Characterisation of Perovskite and Chalcohalide-Based Photovoltaic Materials |
Suraj SmithMSc student Supervisors: Anthony Powell and Paz VaqueiroProject: New thermoelectric sulphides |
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Dr Jonathan KennySupervisors: Anthony Powell and Paz VaqueiroJonathan was a postdoctoral researcher on the Innovate UK project “Advanced textile-integrated thermoelectric energy harvesting for wearable electronics” |
Graduated PhD students (since 2007):
- Jethro Beamish-Cook (2020) Supervisors: Paz Vaqueiro and Ken Shankland
- Sebastian Long (2020) Supervisors: Anthony Powell, Paz Vaqueiro and Steve Hull (ISIS)
- Sarah Makin (2018) Supervisors: Paz Vaqueiro and Anthony Powell
- John Lampkin (2018) Supervisors: Anthony Powell and Ann Chippindale
- Panagiotis Mangelis (2017) Supervisors: Anthony Powell and Paz Vaqueiro
- Gabin Guélou (2016) Supervisors: Anthony Powell and Paz Vaqueiro
- Son D. N. Luu Thesis: Synthesis and characterisation of oxychalcogenides as promising thermoelectric materials for waste heat recovery (2015) Supervisor: Paz Vaqueiro
- Vijay Srirambhatla (2014) Supervisors: Anthony Powell and Arno Kraft
- Sarah Ewing Thesis:Synthesis, crystal structures and properties of novel group 13 selenides (2014) Supervisors: Paz Vaqueiro and Anthony Powell
- Jack Corps Thesis:Structural and physical properties of low-dimensional chalcogenides (2014) Supervisors: Anthony Powell and Paz Vaqueiro
- M Lucia Romero Thesis: Solvothermal synthesis and characterisation of novel gallium-sulphide compounds (2010) Supervisors: Paz Vaqueiro and Valeria Arrighi
- Patricia Leyva-Bailen Thesis: Low-temperature synthesis and magnetism of novel frameworks (2009) Supervisors: Anthony Powell and Paz Vaqueiro
- Gerard G Sobany Thesis: Structural study and thermoelectric properties of some group 9 ternary metal chalcogenides (2009) Supervisors: Paz Vaqueiro and Anthony Powell
- Iwona Szkoda Thesis: Phase relations, structural studies and physical properties of mixed metal oxides and sulphides (2008) Supervisors: Anthony Powell and Paz Vaqueiro
- T Erinc Engin Thesis: Simultaneous diffraction and resistance measurements of metal sulphides (2008) Supervisors: Anthony Powell and Steve Hull (ISIS)
- Rachel Lees Thesis:
Solvothermal
synthesis of novel inorganic materials (2007) Supervisors:
Anthony Powell and Ann Chippindale