Annual Report and Research in Progress 2014 - Department of Materials

Annual Report and
Research in Progress
2014
Department
of Materials

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ANNUAL REPORT
36 Degree awards
38 Postgraduate taught degree awards
38 MPhil and PhD awards
40 Outreach
44 Undergraduate
45 Undergraduate students
47 Placements and projects
48 Postgraduate
49 Postgraduate research
49 Postgraduate masters courses
51 Postgraduate research students
52 Postgraduate research day
54 Postdoctoral
55 Postdoctoral research staff
55 Postdoctoral Research Symposium
58 Out and about
59 Academic staff
64 Postdoctoral research staff
68 Research in progress 2014
69 Academic staff profiles
86 Imperial networks
87 Imperial Networks in Materials
Science and Engineering
90 Facilities
91 Materials Characterisation
95 Materials Processing
96 Research themes
100 Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering
104 Ceramics and Glasses
107 Engineering Alloys
110 Functional Materials
114 Nanotechnology and Nanoscale
Characterisation
117 Theory and Simulation of Materials
120 Current research sponsors
4 Introduction
9 Annual report 2014
10 People
11 Summary of staff, visiting
researchers and students
12 Academic, research and
support staff
16 Postgraduate taught students
18 Management structure
19 Departmental management
and committee structure
24 In the spotlight
25 Academic staff highlights
28 Postdoctoral research staff highlights
30 Postgraduate students highlights
highlights
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS
Above: Jorge Costa was awarded
the Best scientific content of a
poster prize. Page 52
Below: Dr Suze Kundu hosting
the Material Girl session in the
Research Zone at the Imperial
Festival 2014. Page 40
Below: Eva Diagnostics
receiving a cheque for
£100k. Page 29

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INTRODUCTION
‘We are very proud of the progress we have made
since we were first granted our Athena Swan
Silver status back in 2010. Its renewal this year
symbolises the Department’s continuing efforts
to support and promote our female academics.’
Professor Mike Finnis, who
was awarded the Alexander
von Humboldt Foundation’s
Humboldt Research Award

Highlights of the past year include the
promotions of Dr Christopher Gourlay
to Senior Lecturer, Dr Sandrine Heutz to
Reader in Functional Molecular Materials,
Dr Arash Mostofi to Reader in Theory and
Simulation of Materials, Dr Stephen Skinner
to Professor of Materials Chemistry, Dr Julian
Jones to Professor of Biomaterials and Dr
Natalie Stingelin to Professor of Functional
Organic Materials. These promotions are the
end product of much hard work, dedication
and ability, so well done to each of them.
Other highlights include:
the renewal of our Athena Swan
Silver status. This symbolises the
Department’s continuing efforts to
support and promote females in Science
and Engineering, and we are very proud
of the progress we have made since we
were first granted our Silver status back
in 2010. Our efforts are now focused on
maintaining the collegial environment
that we have worked hard to cultivate
within the Department of Materials, and
ensuring that all staff experience the
benefits of this supportive culture. It is
notable that, in our last hiring round,
we received 135 applications for two
positions and ended up appointing
three outstanding applicants – all of
whom were women.
Professor Molly Stevens’ ongoing
media acclaim which included places
in The Wired Smart List (2013), Cells’ 40
under 40 list (2014) and, more recently,
in the London Evening Standard’slist
of The 1000 Most Influential Londoners
(2014).
Professor Bill Lee’s appointment
as President-elect of The American
Ceramics Society.
the award of the Alexander von
Humboldt Foundation’s Humboldt
Research Award to Professor
Mike Finnis.
the establishment of Eva Diagnostics
(www.evadiagnostics.com), a new
spin-out company founded by Dr
Toby Basey-Fisher (PDRA) in 2014.
Welcome to the Department of Materials Annual Report
and Research in Progress 2013–14 edition. The Annual
Report reviews the activities of the Department for the
academic year 01 October 2013–30 September 2014 and
the Research in Progress outlines the research life of the
Department during the same period.
Centres for Doctoral
Training
Imperial was awarded 12 Centres
for Doctoral Training (CDTs) in the
past year – the greatest number in
the UK – and of these, three were
to the Department of Materials,
including a CDT in Nuclear
Energy (led by Professor Bill Lee
FREng), Theory and Simulation
of Materials (led by Professor
Peter Haynes) and Advanced
Characterisation of Materials (led
by Dr David McPhail and Professor
Stephen Skinner). The Department
is also heavily involved in the CDT
in Plastic Electronic Materials
(led by Dr Paul Stavrinou in the
Department of Physics).
HIGHLIGHTS
Eva Diagnostics
also won the 2014
OneStart Grand Prize
and received £100k to
further develop a device
for diagnosing anaemia, which uses
optical technology. The spin-out was
selected from over 100 competing
companies.
For a full list of other noteworthy news, prizes, awards
and distinctions, see In the Spotlight on page 24.
Professor Neil McN Alford MBE FREng,
Head of the Department of Materials
Professor Molly Stevens FREng, who has
received much media acclaim.
Professor Bill Lee FREng
was appointed as President-
elect of The American
Ceramics Society

The Department of Materials at Imperial is
internationally recognised as a centre of excellence
and is currently ranked fourth in the world in the 2014
QS World University Rankings (up one place since 2013)
and ranked second and third in The Times and Sunday
Times and The Guardian UK university rankings.
Nuclear University Technology Centre,
the Composites Centre and the Thomas
Young Centre. See Imperial Networks on
page 86. These centres and institutes
enable training, funding and global
partnerships for our researchers and
students.
We enhance the quality of our
research by continually appointing new
people of international standing and
by building on the already extensive
links to other departments and research
centres and institutes worldwide,
including: KAUST, NUS, ETH Zurich,
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg,
Max Planck Institutes, Nagoya Institute
of Technology, MIT, Case Western
Reserve University, American National
Laboratories (e.g. Oak Ridge), CSIRO,
ANSTO and the University of Queensland,
to name a few.
The Department currently has three
active spin-out companies: Ceres Power
(cerespower.com), Emisens (emisens.
com) and Eva Diagnostics (evadiagnostics.
com) which were set up to commercialise
the products of departmental research.
Ceres Power was floated in 2004 to
develop Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFCs) and
is a world leader in the next generation
of fuel cell technology. Emisens was
built on work carried out on microwave
dielectric resonators and these form a
key component in scanning devices for
liquid explosives at airports. Our newest
start-up is Eva Diagnostics (launched in
2014), which manufactures devices that
can diagnose and differentiate macrocytic,
normocytic and microcytic anaemia from
a single drop of blood in a matter of
seconds.
This vibrant environment is a catalyst
for research advances and industrial
innovation, making our Department
top in the UK for funding from Research
Our research is enriched by strong
interdepartmental collaborations with
Bioengineering, Chemistry, Physics and
Mechanical Engineering in particular.
These cross-College partnerships are
nurtured by our research centres and
institutes, including: the Centre for
Advanced Structural Ceramics, the Centre
for Nuclear Engineering, the Centre
for Plasmonics and Metamaterials,
the Centre for Plastic Electronics,
the Centre for Terahertz Science and
Engineering, the Energy Futures Lab, the
Institute for Biomedical Engineering,
the Institute for Security Science and
Technology, the International Centre for
Advanced Materials, the London Centre
for Nanotechnology, the Rolls-Royce

Councils UK (RCUK). In fact, 44% of all
departmental funding awarded in the
2013–14 period was from RCUK and the
remaining awards were split between
the Commission of the European
Communities (21%), industry (12%),
government (2%), charity (19%) and
other sources (2%). Overall, the awards
granted to the Department during 2013–
14 are valued at £14M. The Department
also has excellent contacts with industry,
and receives research support from a
variety of companies worldwide either as
research contracts or student support.
The Department’s research spend
during 2013–14 was in excess of £11.5M
from research councils, industry and
government bodies and the 2014–15
budget forecast is £12.8M.

OUR vibrant environment is a catalyst for research
advances and industrial innovation, making our
department top in the UK for funding from Research
Councils UK (RCUK).
New academic appointments
include: Dr Fang Xie (previously
an Imperial Junior Research Fellow
in the Department) as Lecturer, Dr
Theoni Georgiou as Lecturer, from
the University of Hull, and Dr Ainara
Aguadero (currently a Marie Curie
Intra-European Fellow) as Lecturer
(from 01 March 2015).
Other appointments include:
Dr Cora O’Reilly as Department
Operations Manager, Dr Saira Naeem
as HexMat Programme Grant Manager,
Dr Panagiotis Papathanasiou as
Scientific Writer, Dr Sujata Kundu as
Teaching Fellow and Outreach Officer,
Benjamin Wood as Research Support
Technician, Mohammad Adabi
as Research Support Technician,
Beth Britton as Student Office
Administrator and Professor Mojtaba
Moatamedi as Technical Manager
for the Centre for Nuclear
Engineering. We hope they are
enjoying their new roles.
We said goodbye to Sophie Price,
Trainee Apprentice in Administration,
Dr Eileen Cheng, Lab Technician in
Tissue Engineering and Dr Nadire
Kavuckcuoglu, Biomaterials Teaching
Fellow. We also said farewell to Dr
Barbara Shollock, who left to take up
a position as TATA Chair in Materials
at the University of Warwick, Dr Ivo
Valkov, who left to take up a position
in the Department of Chemical
Engineering at Imperial and Andrew
Tebbutt who took up a position as
Director of Student Recruitment and
Outreach, here at Imperial. We wish
them all the best of luck in their new
ventures.
STAFFNEWS
From left to right: Dr Ainara Aguadero,
Dr Theoni Georgiou, the Imperial
Festival 2014 and Dr Fang Xie

We have a superb track record in acquiring new
equipment, maintaining all our facilities and enabling
equipment sharing. Over the last five years, we have
invested over £8M in world-class processing and
characterisation equipment.
or equivalent and we continue to attract
the best students and produce highly
motivated, skilled, employable graduates.
Addressing and improving the
student experience is at the heart of the
Department’s teaching strategy. The results
of the National Student Survey 2014 were
extremely positive and showed that,
overall, 88% of our students were satisfied
with their experience, a 3% increase
since 2013. Furthermore, there was a
notable satisfaction increase in teaching
(+5%), assessment and feedback (+10%),
organisation and management (+5%) and
Students’ Union (+4%). Although this is
an excellent result, we believe that we can
further improve on these satisfaction levels
with concentrated and coordinated effort.
Our PhD student intake in 2013–14
period was 38 which brings our total
PhD number to 151. We also graduated 31
students (see Degree Awards on page 36)
with two in particular, Dr Daming Wang
and Dr Louise Connell, passing their vivas
with no corrections. This is no mean feat!
We congratulate all our students and wish
them bright and successful futures.
The Department continues to support
its students via numerous scholarships
and bursaries. These are made available
largely due to the generosity of various
companies and charities including the
Armourers and Brasiers’ Company, AWE,
Rolls-Royce plc and TATA to name a few,
and kind donations made to the Harvey
Flower Undergraduate Research Scholarship
Fund, set up in 2007 in honour of the
late Professor Harvey Flower. The funds
mainly enable our undergraduates and
postgraduates to spend time abroad at
high quality research institutions and/or to
assist them with travel costs to industrial
placements and conferences. There are
also various departmental scholarships
available including five recently established
MEng undergraduate scholarships as well
as five departmental Materials Research
Scholarships and five fully-funded
studentships for our postgraduate students.
The total number of research assistants,
postdoctoral research associates and
research fellows in our Department has
increased from 69 in 2012–13 to 100 in
the 2013–14 academic session. Of the 91
postdoctoral research staff, approximately
20% are on highly competitive fellowships.
Our researchers are highly valued for
their tremendous contribution to the
research, teaching and diverse academic
life of the Department. They are at a
crucial stage in their careers and we are
committed to providing them with support
and development opportunities. See
Postdoctoral on page 54.
Professor Neil McN Alford MBE FREng
This includes new instruments to probe
the chemistry of surfaces (e.g. secondary
ion mass spectroscopy – low energy ion
scattering and ambient pressure X-ray
photoelectron spectroscopy), new electron
microscopes (e.g. Auriga FEG-SEM and
Zeiss TEM and two Bruker X-ray sets as well
as equipment to explore the properties of
materials from Hz to THz (e.g. a TeraView
TPSSpectra 3000 system and a Rohde
Schwarz ZVA top benchmarkVector
Network Analyser (VNA)). Through our
investment, we are able to make materials
by a huge range of methods including wet
chemistry, atomic layer deposition and
self-assembly by vacuum techniques. Our
facilities and equipment are constantly
reviewed, keeping our Department at the
cutting-edge of Materials Science research.
The Department of Materials continues
to enhance its excellent teaching
programme. During 2013–14, we enrolled
77 new undergraduates which brings the
total, in the report period, to over 250. In
2013–14, 69 students graduated with BEng
or MEng Honours, 79% of whom obtained
a First or Upper Second class degree.
See Degree Awards on page 36.
The Department’s entry requirement
is a minimum of three A grades at A-level

ANNUAL REPORT

People

Our staff and students come from all over the world. We strive
to attract, develop, reward and retain a diverse community of staff
and students of the highest calibre.
The Department is unique in the UK for the breadth of its coverage
of Materials Science and Engineering, both by the extent of its
multi-disciplinary approach and by the range of materials covered
in teaching and research. Formal qualifications of our academic
staff include Materials Science and Engineering, Metallurgy,
Physics, Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Sciences as well as Physics and
Mathematics, Chemical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering.
Summary of staff and students in
the Department of Materials 2013–14
STAFF
Academic staff 32.3
Administrative staff 15.68
Technical staff 7.9
Research officers 7
Research fellows 24
Research Associates 67
Research Assistants and early stage researchers 9
Total 162.9

Postgraduate research students
First year 38
Second year 59
Third year 36
Fourth year 18
Total 151

Postgraduate taught students
MSc in Nuclear Engineering 18
MSc in Advanced Materials Science and Engineering 34
MSc Biomedical Engineering with Biomaterials 14
Total 66

Undergraduate students
First year MEng Materials Science and Engineering 48
First year MEng Aerospace Materials 2
First year MEng Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering 1
First year MEng Materials with Nuclear Engineering 4
First year BEng Materials Science and Engineering 17
First year BEng Materials with Management 5
Second year MEng Materials Science and Engineering 51
Second year MEng Aerospace Materials 1
Second year MEng Materials with Nuclear Engineering 4
Second year BEng Materials Science and Engineering 26
Second year BEng Materials with Management 1
Third year MEng Materials Science and Engineering 34
Third year MEng Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering 5
Third year MEng Materials with Nuclear Engineering 1
Third year BEng Materials Science and Engineering 27
Third year BEng Materials with Management 5
Fourth year MEng Materials Science and Engineering 23
Fourth year MEng Aerospace Materials 1
Fourth year MEng Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering 2
Total 258
300
250
200
150
100
50
0
2011–12 2013–142012–13
114
43
251 240
54
162.9
66
258
Staff
Postgraduate
research students
Postgraduate taught
students
Undergraduate
students
The bar chart shows the steady growth of the Department over the last 3 years
150 150
127
151

Professor Julian Jones
Professor of Biomaterials, Senior
Undergraduate Tutor
Professor John Kilner
BCH Steele Chair in Energy Materials
Professor Norbert Klein
Professor of Electromagnetic
Nanomaterials, Director of the Centre of
Terahertz Science and Engineering
Professor Bill Lee FREng
Professor of Ceramic Engineering,
William Penney Fellow, Director of
Centre for Nuclear Engineering (CNE)
Professor Jason Riley
Professor of Materials Electrochemistry,
Director of Research, Deputy Head of
Department
Professor Mary Ryan
Professor of Materials Science and
Nanotechnology, First and Second Year
Coordinator, Tutor for Women, Athena
Swan Coordinator
Professor Eduardo Saiz Gutierrez
Professor of Structural Ceramics,
Postgraduate Tutor, Director of the
Centre for Advanced Structural Ceramics
(CASC)
Professor Stephen Skinner
Professor in Materials Chemistry,
Facilities Coordinator
Professor Molly Stevens** FREng
Professor of Biomedical Materials and
Regenerative Medicine
Professor Natalie Stingelin
Professor of Functional Organic
Materials, Postdoctoral Research Staff
Mentor
Dr David Dye
Reader in Metallurgy, Director of
Postgraduate Studies
Dr Sandrine Heutz
Reader in Functional Molecular
Materials, Course Director (MSc in
Advanced Materials Science and
Engineering)
Dr Andrew Horsfield
Reader in the Theory and Simulation of
Materials, Director of Undergraduate
Studies
Dr Arash Mostofi*
Reader in Theory and Simulation
of Materials, Fourth Year MEng
Coordinator, Director of the Thomas
Young Centre (Imperial), Assistant
Director of the CDT in Theory and
Simulation of Materials
Dr David McPhail
Reader in Surface Analysis,
Director of the CDT in the Advanced
Characterisation of Materials
Dr Mark Oxborrow
Reader in Functional Microwave
Materials and Devices, Deputy
Undergraduate Lab Coordinator
Dr Alexandra Porter
Reader in Bioimaging and Analysis
Dr Christopher Gourlay
Senior Lecturer, EPSRC Engineering
Fellow for Growth, Deputy Postgraduate
Admissions Tutor
Dr Rongshan Qin
Senior Lecturer in Steel Processing,
Corus/RAEng Senior Research
Fellow, Departmental Careers Advisor
and Undergraduates Placements
Coordinator
Dr Paul Tangney*
Senior Lecturer
Dr Luc Vandeperre
Senior Lecturer, Exams Coordinator
Dr Iain Dunlop
Lecturer, Undergraduate Admissions
Tutor
Dr Finn Giuliani^
Lecturer, Undergraduate Lab
Coordinator
Dr Cecilia Mattevi
Lecturer, Royal Society University
Research Fellow, Third Year Coordinator
Dr Michelle Moram
Research Fellow, Academic Outreach
Officer
Dr David Payne
Research Fellow, Deputy Undergraduate
Admissions Tutor
Dr Martyn McLachlan
Lecturer, Deputy Director of
Undergraduate Studies
Dr Mark Wenman
Lecturer
Dr Fang Xie
Lecturer
Dr Theoni Georgiou
Lecturer, Undergraduate Biomaterials
Coordinator, Course Director (MSc
in Biomedical Engineering with
Biomaterials)
Dr Ainara Aguadero
Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow,
Lecturer (effective 01 March 2015)
Dr T Ben Britton
Nuclear Metallurgy Fellow, Royal
Academy of Engineering Research
Fellow (effective 01 March 2015),
Undergraduate Nuclear Coordinator,
Course Director (MSc in Nuclear
Engineering)
* Joint with the Department of Physics
** Joint with the Institute for Biomedical
Engineering (IBME)
^ Joint with the Department of
Mechanical Engineering
Administrative staff
Beth Britton
Student Office Administrator
Jason Coyne
Trainee Apprentice in Finance and
Administration
Caroline Detchenique
Senior Marketing and Communications
Officer
Dr Amutha Devaraj
Technical Manager, Centre for Advanced
Structural Ceramics (CASC)
Raj Gill
Student Office Administrator and
Administrator for MSc courses
Jacqueline Hughes
Resources Administrator
Darakshan Khan
Departmental Resources Manager
Dr Sujata Kundu
Teaching Fellow and Outreach Officer
Professor Mojtaba Moatamedi
Technical Manager for the Centre for
Nuclear Engineering (CNE)
Dr Saira Naeem
HexMat Programme Grant Project
Manager
Dr Cora O’Reilly
Department Operations Manager
Dr Panagiotis Papathanasiou
Scientific Writer
Dr Manjula Silva
Assistant Teaching Fellow
Undergraduate Laboratory Support
Dr James Spencer
Computational Science Support
Specialist
Fiona Thomson
Student Office Manager
Claire Tibble
Research Operations Officer
Sonia Tomasetig
Senior PA to the Head of Department
Emma Warriss
PA and Project Manager to the Centre for
Nuclear Engineering (CNE)
Fraser Wigley
Head of Technical Support
academic, research
and support staff
people
Engineering
and Physical
Sciences
Research
Council
Dr David Payne was
elected to the Engineering
and Physical Sciences
Research Council (EPSRC)
Strategic Advisory
Team (SAT) for Research
Infrastructure. SATs exist
to provide Theme Leaders
at EPSRC with strategic
advice that will assist them
to develop, implement and
modify plans.
HIGHLIGHTS
Academic staff
Professor Neil Alford MBE FREng
Professor of Physical Electronics and Thin
Film Materials, Head of Department, Vice-
Dean (Research), Faculty of Engineering
Professor Alan Atkinson
Professor of Materials Chemistry
Professor Fionn Dunne FREng
Chair in Micromechanics, Director of the
Imperial Rolls-Royce Nuclear University
Technology Centre, Co-director of the
AVIC-BIAM Centre for Materials
Professor Mike Finnis*
Professor of Materials Theory and
Simulation
Professor Robin Grimes FREng
Professor of Materials Physics
Professor Peter Haynes*
Professor of Theory and Simulation of
Materials, Postgraduate Admissions
Tutor

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The Department is unique in the UK for the breadth of its
coverage of Materials Science and Engineering, both by
the extent of its multi-disciplinary approach and by the
range of materials covered in teaching and research.
Dr Kristina Kareh
Research Associate
Dr Eunjung Kim
Research Associate
Dr Florian Le Goupil
Research Associate
Dr Siwei Li
Research Associate
Dr Yiyang Lin
Research Associate
Dr Li Ping Lu
Research Associate
Dr Jaime Martin Perez
Research Associate
Dr Andrei Mihai
Research Associate
Dr Karin Muller
Research Associate
Dr Geoffrey Nelson
Research Associate
Dr Sergey Belyakov
Research Associate
Dr Ayan Bhowmik
Research Associate
Dr Ioan Botiz
Research Associate
Dr Ester Buchaca-Domingo
Research Associate
Dr Paola Campagnolo
Research Associate
Dr Andrea Cavallaro
Research Associate
Dr Rona Chandrawati
Research Associate
Dr Robert Chapman
Research Associate
Dr Shu Chen
Research Associate
Dr Lesley Chow
Research Associate
Dr Robert Davies
Research Associate
Dr Derfogail Delcassian
Research Associate
Dr Andrew Duff
Research Associate
Dr Paul Fossati
Research Associate
Dr Esther Garcia Tunon Blanca
Research Associate
Dr Daniel Glymond
Research Associate
Dr Daniel Gonzalez Carter
Research Associate
Dr Angela Goode
Research Associate
Dr Christine-Maria Horejs
Research Associate
Dr Denis Horlait
Research Associate
Dr Robert Horton
Research Associate
Dr Philip Howes
Research Associate
Dr Samuel Humphry-Baker
Research Associate
Dr Jun Jiang
Research Associate
Dr Sudha Joseph
Research Associate
Dr Tea-Sung Jun
Research Associate
Dr Louise Connell
Doctoral Prize Fellow
Dr Doni Daniel
Research Fellow
Dr Laura Frisk
Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow
Dr Gregor Fuhrmann
Dr Victoria Garcia Rocha
Dr Stephen Hanham
Experienced Researcher
Dr Margaret Holme
Dr Darya Kiryushko
Dr Damia Mawad
Marie Curie International Incoming
Fellow
Dr Catriona McGilvery
Research Fellow in Advanced Electron
Microscopy
Dr Na Ni
Imperial Junior Research Fellow
Dr Zhan Yuin Ong
Fellow
Dr Subinoy Rana
Fellow
Dr Olena Shaforost
REG Researcher (EMRP Researcher
Excellence Grant)
Dr Cephas Small
Fellow
Dr Neil Treat
Marie Curie Independent International
Incoming Fellow
Dr Vassili Vorontsov
Dr Xin Wang
Research Fellow in Ceramics
Postdoctoral research
associates
Dr Nasrin Al Nasiri
Research Associate
Dr Arbel Artzy-Schnirman
Research Associate
Dr Helene Autefage
Research Associate
Dr Toby Basey-Fisher
Research Associate
Technical staff
Mohammad Adabi
Research Support Technician
Benjamin Wood
Sabrina Skeete
Biomaterials Technician
Russell Stracey
RSM Workshop Supervisor
Ecaterina Ware
Characterisation Facilities Assistant
Benjamin Chan
Technician
Garry Stakalls
Technician
Michael Lennon
RSM Workshop Technician
Jason Hoadley
Technician
Research officers
Dr Mahmoud Ardakani
Research Officer in Electron Microscopy
Dr Victoria Bemmer
Junior Research Officer in Materials
Characterisation
Dr Richard Chater
Senior Research Officer
Dr Sarah Fearn
Research Officer in Surface Analysis
Dr Peter Petrov
Research Officer in Thin Film Technology
Richard Sweeney
Dr Ignacio Villar Garcia
Research Officer in High Pressure
Photoelectron Spectroscopy
Research fellows
Dr Ainara Aguadero
Dr Michael Albro
Fellow
Dr Andrey Berenov
Research Fellow
Dr Sergio Bertazzo
Dr Jon Breeze
Research Fellow
Dr Ciro Chiappini
Marie Curie Independent International
Incoming Fellow
Silver Medal
Award
Dr T Ben Britton was
awarded the 2014
Silver Medal by the
Institute of Materials,
Minerals and Mining.
This prize is awarded
to a member under the
age of 30, in recognition
of an outstanding
contribution to the
broad field of Materials
Science, Engineering and
Technology, including
promotion of their
subject on a national or
international basis. HIGHLIGHTS

Dr Eleanor Schofield
Honorary Lecturer
Dr Neil Smart
Visiting Professor
Ke Jie Tan
Visting Researcher
Dr Ali Tehrani
Visiting Professor
Jianping Wei
Sponsored Researcher
Professor Roger Whatmore
Senior Research Investigator
Professor Laurence Williams
Senior Research Fellow
Professor Jim Williamson
Distinguished Research Fellow
Professor John Wood
Visiting Professor
Professor Bilge Yildiz
Visiting Reader
External Advisory Panel
Dr Tasadduq Khan
ONERA
Professor Sybrand van der Zwaag
Delft University
Dr Neil Smart (Chair)
Sellafield Ltd
Dr Steve Paterson
Shell UK
Steve Dearden
Rolls-Royce plc
Dr David Farrar
Smith and Nephew Research Centre
Dr Peter Brown
DSTL
Professor Derek Fray
University of Cambridge
Professor Nicola Marzari
EPFL
Professor Eva Olsson
Chalmers University of Technology
Professor Anne Borg
Norwegian University of Science and
Technology
Dr Urs Duerig
IBM Research
Dr Andrew Hosty
The Morgan Crucible Company plc
The Hon. Angad Paul
Caparo Industries plc
Professor Lawrence Dunne
Visiting Professor
Dr Mamdouh El-Shanawany
Visiting Professor
Dr Graham Fairhall
Visiting Professor
Dr Peter Gammon
Visiting Research Fellow
Professor Vernon Gibson FRS
Visiting Professor
Dr Ling Hao
Visiting Professor
Dr Robert Harker
Visiting Lecturer
Dr Alison Harrison
Honorary Lecturer
Professor Larry Hench
Emeritus Professor of Ceramic Materials
Professor Arthur Heuer
Visiting Professor
Marion Hill
Visiting Lecturer
Professor David Holt
(deceased 13 October 2014)
Emeritus Professor
Professor Douglas Inman
(deceased 19 June 2014)
Senior Research Fellow
Dame Sue Ion OBE FREng
Visiting Professor
Professor Tatsumi Ishihara
Visiting Professor
Dr Tasadduq Khan
Visiting Professor
Professor Peter Lee
Visiting Professor
Professor Trevor Lindley
Senior Research Investigator
Dr Duncan MacLachlan
Honorary Senior Research Fellow
Dr Manuel Mazo
Visiting Researcher
Professor David McComb
Adjunct Professor
Brian Metcalfe
Visiting Lecturer
Professor Kenneth Mills
Visiting Professor
Professor Tony Paxton
Visiting Professor
Professor Rees Rawlings
Visiting Professor
Dr Bin Zou
Research Associate
Research assistants and
early stage researchers
James Gilchrist
Research Assistant
Celia Pacheco Moreno
Research Assistant
Anu Solanki
Research Assistant
Francesco Reale
Research Assistant
Lucy Goff
Research Assistant
Elena Littmann
Early Stage Researcher
Gil Machado
Claudio Ferraro
Francesca Tallia
Visiting and emeritus staff
Dr Nadav Amdursky
Dr Yuelei Bai
Emeritus Professor J Geoff Ball
Emeritus Professor
Professor Aldo Roberto Boccaccini
Visiting Professor
Dr Peter Brown
Visiting Professor
Dr Faffaella Carzaniga
Visiting Researcher
Dr Anthony Centeno
Visiting Research Fellow
Professor Manish Chhowalla
Visiting Professor
Dr Alexander Chroneos
Honorary Lecturer
Dr Spencer Crowder
Fei Dou
Professor Mark Dowsett
Visiting Professor
Dr Urs Duerig
Visiting Professor
Dr Maelig Ollivier
Research Associate
Dr Freddy Oropeza Palacio
Research Associate
Dr Eugene Pashuck III
Research Associate
Dr Imran Patel
Research Associate
Dr Niranjan Patra
Research Associate
Dr Benjamin Pierce
Research Associate
Dr Stevin Pramana
Research Associate
Dr Jennifer Puetzer
Research Associate
Dr Jiahui Qi
Research Associate
Dr Mezan Rahman
Research Associate
Dr Mikael Rasander
Research Associate
Dr Benjamin Richards
Research Associate
Dr Pakatip Ruenraroengsak
Research Associate
Dr Michael Rushton
Research Associate
Dr Manuela Russo
Research Associate
Dr Juna Sathian
Research Associate
Dr Andrea Serio
Research Associate
Dr Arash Soleiman Fallah
Research Associate
Dr Christopher Spicer
Research Associate
Dr Jean-Philippe St-Pierre
Research Associate
Dr Stevin Pramana
Research Associate
Dr Florent Tonus
Research Associate
Dr Xu Wu
Research Associate
Dr Xiaoxue Zhang
Research Associate
Dr Xin-Fang Zhang
Research Associate
Dr Zhen Zhang
Research Associate
people

The vast breadth of expertise our academics bring to
the Department enables us to remain at the forefront
of teaching and research across the range of activities
central to the Materials discipline.
Second year BEng Materials
Tristan Avory
Nuttibase Charupeng
Jingyi Chen
Weng Chio
Mon-Sen Chou
Thomas Defferriere
Bo Ding
Bowen Guan
Nils Kemen
Siyu Li
Benjamin Parton
Alexandra Sanchez Thompson
Nozomi Satake
Yu Shi
Chengsong Su
Brian Sum
Yuanbo Tang
Julien Thevenard
Andrew Halls
Joseph Hosier
Yueh Hsu
Yue Hu
Sean Hyer
Vyas Iyer
Min Jin
Andrew Johns
Enrique Juan Alcocer
Thomas Kwok
Linfeng Lan
Khang Le
Lassi Leppilahti
Chong Liu
Qingyang Lu
Anshumaan Maheshwari
Lukas Malms
Isaac McClellan
Aneesh Misra
Robin Newman
Merlin Potter-Adams
Aloisius Purnama
Yi Qiu
Tobias Reed-Sperrin
Iacopo Maria Russo
Zachary Slingsby-Smith
Gene Stein
Oliver Stephenson
Araya Taechamahaphant
Dexin Tang
Henry Wearing
Samuel Wheeler
Anna Williams
Hong Wong
Anyi Yang
Tsung Yang
Duae Zehra
Raymond Zhan
Chaoyi Zhu
Xiaoxi Zhu
Yifan Zong
Second year MEng Aerospace
Materials
Wasin Laksanakarn
Second year MEng Materials
with Nuclear Engineering
Oliver Adams
Thomas Floreani
Atsuhide Miyagi
Vlad Podgurschi
First year MEng Biomaterials
and Tissue Engineering
Xinping Fan
First year MEng Materials
Noor Mulheron
Alexander Orchard
Zackary Youssef
Tingyuan Zheng
First year BEng Materials
Yanran Chen
Bojian Feng
Laura Ford
Ievgenii Gettse
Xin He
Rowan Hedgecock
Myles Holbrough
Tingting Huang
Xianzhao Liu
Tengzhou Ma
Thomas McClintock
Nafisah Mohd Rafiq
Donghun Nam
Zijie Sha
Phin Ting
Bingyao Wang
Sun Wong
First year BEng Materials
with Management
Robin de Meyere
Bogdan Dovgyy
Shuainan Nie
Zuiyi Shen
George Wilson
Second year MEng Materials
Yewande Adesida
Oscar Bagoole
Alexis Belessiotis
Ahmed Belkarty
Marc Bochereau
Yi Cheong
Jules Cheongvee
Matthew Cheung
Dhitaya Chulajata
Simon Escobar Steinvall
First year MEng Materials
Alexis Abayomi
Arman Amirzhan
Valentine Assal
Julian Buchinger
Kwan Chan
Si Chen
Nak Choi
Marco D’Agostini
Brigita Darminto
Tristan Dell
Carolina Eiras Sa
Max Emmanuel
Edward Frost
Yulin Gao
Muhammad Ghazali
Radim Hart
Jack Humble
Daisy May Key
Yanli Kuang
May Hsim Lai
Jonathan Leong
Yiming Lin
Denys Lutsenko
Qasim Mahmood
Debesh Mandal
Robert McPherson
Martin Mozdzen
Vishnu Pillai
Joseph Pitkethly
Milla Puolamaa
Chenguang Qu
Adelowo Rhodes
Syafiqah Saiful Yazan
Neil Sam-Soon
Ramon Sanchez Hevia
Surina Sharma
Ha Shin
James Smith
Jeremy Smith
Sophia Televantos
Yiyang Tian
Sophia Todhunter
Dai Wan
Dengyiming Wang
Hao Wen
Yi Yao
Aiganym Yermembetova
Alexandre Zoetelief Tromp
First year MEng Aerospace
Materials
Banerjee Kieron
Rogers Samuel
UNDERGRADUATE
STUDENTS
Institute of
Materials Prize
Hannah Puccetti was
awarded the Institute of
Materials Prize, valued
at £200. This prize is
awarded to a final year
undergraduate student
of the Department of
Materials for performance
during the whole of his/
her undergraduate course.
In addition to examination
results, particular
attention is given to
character, personality and
to participation in general
College or university
activities.
HIGHLIGHTS

MSc in Nuclear
Engineering
Tunde Adigun
Emmanuel Andrieu
Atyab Calloo
Anne Callow
Ke Deng
Antoine Ducloux
Conor Galvin
Elizabeth Howett
Md Islam
Bek Kairoshev
Alif Shuhaimi
Kristijonas Plauoinaitis
Joanna Playbell
Sebastian Russell-Smith
Jamie Sahote
Wei Wu
Noratiqah Yaakop
Gebril El Fallah
MSc in Advanced
Materials Science and
Engineering
Yanika Agius
Caroline Alglave
Joao Neves
Tommaso Giovannini
Jing Guan
Ning Hou
Yan Huang
Ismaila Ibrahim
Arun Ichangi
Goziem Isichei
Ye Jiang
Suchanond Kaewjinda
Supachai Kerdsuk
Qian Li
Shaobo Li
Qingxin Lin
Florence Maliar
Fionnan McNamara
Nur Mohd Annuar
Maurizio Morbidoni
Wanxin Peng
Bo Ren
Xiaohe Ren
Marion Roger
Xiaoguang Song
Naomi Vella
Chenfei Wang
Fourth year MEng
Engineering
Shardul Biwalkar
Karissa Chan
Thomas Cosnahan
Alexandru Crisan
Jack Evans
Gavin Robert Green
Toller Hao
Luca Iuzzolino
Faizan Javed
Harpal Khing
Seo Kim
Cong Lu
Natasha Lunn
Amar Mody
Thomas Moss-Mccrory
Christopher Ogunlesi
Tian Sang
William Stocker
Haow Bin Tee
John Wheatley
Nicholas Whiteway
Shengda Xu
Yuzhou Zheng
Fourth year MEng
Aerospace Materials
Salome Chabran
Fourth year MEng
Biomaterials and Tissue
Engineering
Fanny Dehaine
Paul Jones
Third year MEng
Engineering
Pia-Theresa Budde
Hamizah Mohd Nor
Irina Mahmad Rasid
Carole Ng
Jacob Tyszka
Third year MEng Materials
Xuan Ye
Third year BEng Materials
Ali Alkhawajah
Theo Bystrom
Soo Hong
Samantha Jiang
Justin Leung
Fang Li
Kailun Li
Justin Lim
Shaoyang Liu
Samuel Loke
Yi Low
Yue Lu
Feixueer Luo
Zeye Lv
Francesca Mazzone
Valerie Osband
Sarut Phongpetra
Hannah Puccetti
Yuji Shimokawa Kelly
Yanisa Srirungkitsward
Jonathan Steeves
Adisorn Techanitisawad
Haomin Wang
Theodore Wou
Xiangyu Xie
Justin Yang
Yuen Yiu
Third year BEng Materials
with Management
Jack Ah Teck
Kar Chan
Songyan Huang
John Lee
Zijun Wei
Chayapat Thongsri
Dimitri Varotsis
Chengang Xu
Emmilyn Yeoh
Zi Yi
Qi Zeng
Han Zhao
Tingzhi Zheng
Second year BEng Materials
with Management
Max Mersch
Third year MEng Materials
Amirah Abdul Aziz
Sophie Andrew
Thomas Bennett
Lars Blumenthal
Mario Coxon
Hui Fong
Hannah Hill
Matthew Howard
Leanne Johnston
Alastair Jones
Deana Kwong Hong Tsang
Karen Lai
Alex Lai
Cheng Lao
Ka Law
Christopher Lawrence
Jing Lee
Marc Lelong
Stanley Liu
Hemant Morjaria
Alexandra Orrin
Pawel Palczynski
Leon Pay
Oliver Pia
Joe Protheroe
Luke Salter
Gabriel Sonnet
Milan Thakore
Hayley Turner
Tiesheng Wang
Laura Wheatcroft
DanYang Wu
Daryl Yee Wei Liang
Yuning Zhou
POSTGRADUATE
taught STUDENTS
people

Eleonora D’Elia
Evgeniy Donchev
Carina Dos Santos Almeida
Bernadette Elliott-Bowman
Stefan Goniszewski
George Harrington
Cassandra Harris
Robert Harrison
Karla-Luise Herpoldt
Zoltan Hiezl
Andrew Hodgson
Matthew Horton
Charles Hutchison
Sajjad Jaffer
Anthony Macon
Jodie Melbourne
Kharissa Nitiputri
Christopher Poll
Alberto Scaccabarozzi
Giuseppe Scatigno
Jun Soh
Kyasha Sri Ranjan
Joseph Steele
Stephen Tay
Ioannis Theodorou
Hsiang-Han Tseng
Saif Ur Rehman
Hannah Weekes
Fourth year
postgraduates
October 2010 cohort
Nor Ezzaty Ahmad
John Alexander
Tansel Arif
Robert Bell
Ci’En Chang
Edoardo Giorgi
Ming He
Robert Hewlett
Michal Klosowski
Matthias Knop
Bey Leo
William Montague
Basmah Othman
Jing Pang
Kien Cuong Pham
Amanda Quadling
Wouter van den Bergh
Clementine Walker
Rachael Harrison
Coline Jumeaux
Juhan Kahk
Charalambos Kallepitis
Yong Kim
Dorothy Latham
Tsz Lee
Mabel Lew
Cheng Li
Elena Littmann
Wenjun Lu
Yongkun Luo
Giovanni Luongo
Gil Machado
Mohd Mahat
Robert Maller
Setareh Monajem-Isfahani
Constant Morez
Paul Mulvey
Maria Nelson
Mathew Niania
Amy Nommeots-Nomm
Celia Maria Pacheco Moreno
Paresh Parmar
Lucia Podhorska
Yoann Porte
Daniel Price
Anna Radecka
Caroline Riedel
Hao Shang
Richard Simons
Anu Solanki
Francesca Tallia
Hung Ting
Hei Tsui
Peter Tympel
Celeste van den Bosch
Robert Walker
Victor Wan
Alex Wang
Clare Watts
Ji Wu
Jingwei Xian
Amanda You
Tiantian Zhang
Xuemei Zhang
Third year
postgraduates
October 2011 cohort
Anna Antoniou
Laurentiu Braic
Emily Brooke
Patrick Burr
Omar Cedillos Barraza
Tamara Chapman
Michael Cooper
Samuel Cooper
First year postgraduates
October 2013 cohort
Mohammad Adabi
Olasunkanmi Adande
Shweta Agarwal
Robert Bain
Bartosz Barzdajn
Theresa Davey
Anna Fricker
Claudia Gasparrini
Chiara Grotta
Thomas Haynes
Matthew Jackson
Kevin Kahn
Michaella Kapnisi
Zhenqi Li
Muzi Li
Chen-Sheng Lin
Wei Liu
Zhaolong Ma
Allen Madamombe
Ali Mohammed
Nur Muhammad Nadzri
Benjamin Nash
Annalisa Neri
Christian Niedermeier
Tsvetoslav Pavlov
Dimitri Pletser
James Quirk
Francesco Reale
Maciej Rokosz
Giorgio Sernicola
Zonghao Shen
Aaron Thong
Vivian Tong
Shih-Ting Wang
Rui Wang
Chi Wong
Jiaqi Zhang
Zebang Zheng
Second year
postgraduates
October 2012 cohort
Jennifer Alex
Benjamin Bell
Cyri Besnard
Farah Ismail
Polina Brangel
Claire Burgess
Justin Chung
Mitchell Cuddihy
Tomiwa Erinosho
Peter Evans
Claudio Ferraro
Sarah Greasley
Sonia Hallen
Wenshuo Xu
Shoaib Zafar
Zuochao Zhao
Feichi Zhou
Liang Zhu
Yi Zhu
Yuyi Zhu
MSc IN Biomedical
Engineering with
Biomaterials
Zahra Abuali
Zhen Lun Li
Maral Mahlooji
Atbin Malayeri
Mariam Mohamed
Alfonso Muinelo Herranz
Konstantinos Pietris
Sujata Ravi
Johanna Schmidt
Amal Sefrioui
Pannita Snidvongs Na Ayudhaya
Lucien Talvard
Marianne Thaila
Alain Vella
POSTGRADUATE
RESEARCH STUDENTS
In recent years, well over 90% of students have completed
their theses within four years, and the great majority publish
at least some of their work in leading peer review journals.
Biotechnology
YES
Joseph Steele was part
of one of two finalist
teams of entrepreneurial
researchers selected to
compete in Biotechnology
YES 2013. Biotechnology
YES is a business
plan competition
for hypothetical
biotechnology and
environmental start-up
companies.
HIGHLIGHTS

MANAGEmENT STRUCTURE

The Department of Materials is committed to exhibiting best practice
in all aspects of its decision-making and departmental affairs. The
committees and groups listed below have ultimate responsibility for
directing the activity of the Department, ensuring it is well run and that
it delivers the outcomes for which it has been set up. Membership of
the various committees and their roles are described below.
Departmental management
and committee structure
PG Staff-student
Committee
Head of Department
Academic staff meeting
Safety Committee External Advisory Panel
Athena Self-Assessment Team
Management Committee
Centralised Facilities Committee Director of ResearchDirector of UG Studies
UG Staff-Student
Committee
Teaching Committee
Senior Tutor
Departmental Operations Manager
Support Staff
Committee
Research
Committee
Research staff
Committee
PG
Tutor
Technical Staff and
Research Officers
Committee
Director of PG
Studies
Technical staff
Committee
PG
Committee
The Department is run using a committee
structure as illustrated in the chart above

DEPARTMENT MANAGEMENT
COMMITTEE (DMC)
Chair, Head of Department
Dr David Dye
Director of Postgraduate Studies
Dr Andrew Horsfield
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Darakshan Khan
Dr Cora O’Reilly
Dr David Payne
Academic Without Portfolio
Dr Peter Petrov
Department Safety Officer
Director of Research
Professor Mary Ryan
Athena Swan/Equalities representative
Director of Facilities
Fiona Thomson
Claire Tibble
Sonia Tomasetig
Meeting Secretary
Fraser Wigley
This is the Department’s most senior
advisory and policy-making committee
and is chaired by the Head of
Department. It meets monthly to assist
the Head of Department in discharging
his duties and has responsibility for
upholding the Department’s mission
statement, writing and ratifying
the Five Year Plan, ratifying other
Committees’ decisions, managing
risks, and finalising the budget. The
Chair communicates all key decisions
at Academic Staff meetings. The
DMC is quorate with 5+ members in
attendance.
ACADEMIC STAFF MEETINGS
Chaired by the Head of Department,
Academic staff meetings are held every
two months to discuss Department,
Faculty, College, national and
international issues. These meetings are
attended by academic staff, research
officers and senior support staff.
EXTERNAL ADVISORY PANEL
External members:
Professor Anne Borg
Norwegian University of Science and
Technology
Dr Peter Brown
DSTL
Steve Dearden
Rolls-Royce plc
Dr Urs Duerig
IBM Research
Dr David Farrar
Smith and Nephew Research Centre
Professor Derek Fray
University of Cambridge
Dr Andrew Hosty
The Morgan Crucible Company plc
Dr Tasadduq Khan
ONERA
Professor Nicola Marzari
EPFL
Professor Eva Olsson
Chalmers University of Technology
Dr Steve Paterson
Shell UK
The Hon. Angad Paul
Caparo Industries plc
Dr Neil Smart (Chair)
Sellafield Ltd
Professor Sybrand van der Zwaag
Delft University
Internal members:
Head of Department
Officer
Dr David Dye
Dr Andrew Horsfield
Senior Undergraduate Tutor
Dr Cora O’Reilly
Departmental Operations Manager
Clare Tibble
The panel meets once a year in
London and its main remit is to
act in an advisory role to the Head
of Department, Departmental
Management Committee and its
subcommittees, in particular:
• To provide advice on the structure
and content of the undergraduate
and postgraduate courses provided
by the Department.
• To provide advice on the strategic
research focus of the Department.
The meeting is chaired by an external
member.
TEACHING COMMITTEE
Dr T Ben Britton
Engineering)
Dr Iain Dunlop
Undergraduate Admissions Tutor
Dr Finn Giuliani
Third Year Coordinator
Dr Andrew Horsfield
Chair, Director of Undergraduate
Studies, Exams Coordinator
Dr Martyn McLachlan
Deputy Director of Undergraduate
Studies
Dr Arash Mostofi
Fourth Year Coordinator
Dr Rongshan Qin
Careers/Placements
Professor Mary Ryan
First and Second Year Coordinator
Fiona Thomson
Chaired by the Director of
Undergraduate Studies (DUGS) this
committee is responsible for all aspects
of the teaching of undergraduate and
postgraduate taught courses including
overseeing programme specifications,
regulations, timetabling, assessment
and examinations, coursework, student
welfare and responding to external
factors such as College policy, external
examiners’ reports, SOLE (Student On
Line Evaluation) responses and course
accreditation. The Chair also represents
the Department on the Faculty’s
Engineering Studies and Teaching
Committees.
STAFF-STUDENT COMMITTEE
Dr T Ben Britton
Engineering)
Officer
Raj Gill
Meeting Secretary, Student Office
Administrator and Administrator
for MSc courses
Dr Finn Giuliani
Third Year Coordinator
Dr Andrew Horsfield
Dr Martyn McLachlan
Deputy Director of Undergraduate
Studies
Dr Arash Mostofi
Fourth Year Coordinator
Mike Mussard
ICT Liaison
Professor Mary Ryan
First and Second Year Coordinator
TheStaff-
Student
Committee
The Staff-Student
Committee is a forum
in which students can
raise points of concern,
make suggestions and
get responses from
staff regarding the
undergraduate and
postgraduate taught
courses. It meets twice a
term in the autumn and
spring terms and once in
the summer term.
HIGHLIGHTS

internationally through a range of
activities including assisting with
nominations for fellowships of
learned societies, recommendations
for award of prizes, and nominations
for invited and keynote lectures;
overseeing Department Research
Assessment submissions.
• Ensuring academics are aware of
funding opportunities and facilitating
collaborative bids where appropriate.
• Interfacing with the Faculty Research
Committee.
• Advising on research areas/profiles
of members and arranging an annual
meeting of the External Advisory
Panel.
• Formulating the seminar programme.
Fiona Thomson
Nicole Urquhart
Library Liaison
levgenii Gettse / Laura Ford
Student Representatives (Year 1)
lacopo Russo / Julien Thevenard
Lars Blumenthal / Yuji Shimokawa
Kelly
Thomas Cosnahan
Chair, Student Representative (Year 4)
Student Representative (MSc in Nuclear
Engineering)
Chenfei Wang / Tommaso
Giovannini
Student Representatives (MSc in
Advanced Materials Science and
Engineering)
Carole Ng
Departmental Representative
The Staff-Student Committee is a forum
in which students can raise points
of concern, make suggestions and
get responses from staff regarding
the undergraduate and postgraduate
taught courses. It meets twice a
term in the autumn and spring terms
and once in the summer term. The
committee is normally chaired by
a student representative and is
composed of academic staff from the
teaching committee, undergraduate
year representatives, the student
departmental representative on the
union committee, and representatives
from ICT and the library. The student
office administrator acts as the
secretary. The student office manager
and DUGS jointly prepare the agenda.
There are two year representatives from
the first, second and third years and
one from the fourth year and student
representatives for each of the Masters
courses.
The Staff-Student Committee
meeting is immediately followed by a
Teaching Committee meeting, chaired
by the DUGS. At this meeting, students
provide their thoughts on items on the
Teaching Committee agenda, which are
then considered at the next staff-only
Teaching Committee meeting.
GRADSOC COMMITTEE
Head of Department
Dr David Dye
Dr Cora O’Reilly
Dr Peter Petrov
Chair, Postgraduate Tutor
PDRA Mentor
Fiona Thomson
Daniel Price
Student Safety Representative
Astrid Armgarth / Kella Kapniski
Sonia Hallen / Richard Simons
Joseph Steele
Student Representative (Year 3)
Evgeniy Donchev
Departmental Representative
This committee meets four times
a year to discuss issues relevant
to postgraduate and postdoctoral
researchers including safety, space and
facilities. It also highlights concerns
raised by the ROLE (Researchers On Line
Evaluation) responses, organises the
Department’s Postgraduate Research
Day and encourages social events.
POSTGRADUATE COMMITTEE
Dr David Dye
Chair, Director of Postgraduate Studies
Dr Christopher Gourlay
Deputy Postgraduate Admissions
Professor Peter Haynes
Postgraduate Admissions Tutor
Postgraduate Tutor
Fiona Thomson
Meeting Secretary
Claire Tibble
The main aim of this committee is to
ensure the smooth administration of
the postgraduate programme.
RESEARCH STAFF COMMITTEE
Darakshan Khan
Departmental Resources Manager,
Meeting Secretary
Chair, Postdoctoral Research Staff
Mentor
THE DEPARTMENT MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE (DMC) has
responsibility for upholding the Department’s mission
statement, writing and ratifying the Five Year Plan,
ratifying other Committees’ decisions, managing risks,
and finalising the budget.
Dr Florent Tonus / Dr Esther Garcia
Tunon Blanca
Postdoctoral staff representatives
All Postdoctoral research staff
Chaired by the Postdoctoral research
staff mentor, this committee is a
forum to discuss issues relevant to
PDRA researchers in the Department
including safety, space, facilities and
career development.
RESEARCH COMMITTEE
Functional Materials, Head of
Department
Professor Fionn Dunne FREng
Engineering Alloys
Professor Mike Finnis
Theory and Simulation of Materials
Professor Peter Haynes
Theory and Simulation of Materials
Dr Cora O’Reilly
Chair, Director of Research
Professor Mary Ryan
Nanotechnology and Nanoscale
characterisation
Ceramics and Glasses
Director of Facilities, Ceramics and
Glasses
Professor Molly Stevens FREng
Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering
Claire Tibble
Meeting Secretary, Research
Operations Officer
Chaired by the Director of Research,
the aim of the Research Committee
is to improve the quality and volume
of research performed within
the Department and to facilitate
multidisciplinary interactions. This is
achieved by:
• Evolving the departmental research
strategy, linked to the Departmental
Business Plan and the Faculty
Research Strategy, identifying
new equipment needs, including
funding and space, and identifying
future opportunities, and how to
grow these internally and through
interaction at Faculty, College,
National and International levels.
• Enabling the best research
profile by: raising the esteem of
each academic nationally and
Teaching
Committee
Chaired by the Director of
Undergraduate Studies
(DUGS) this committee
is responsible for all
aspects of the teaching
of undergraduate and
postgraduate taught
courses including
overseeing programme
specifications,
regulations, timetabling,
assessment and
examinations,
coursework, student
welfare and responding to
external factors such as
College policy, external
examiners’ reports,
SOLE (Student On Line
Evaluation) responses and
course accreditation.
HIGHLIGHTS

• Producing an annual Research in
Progress booklet.
The committee meets 4–6 times a year.
HEALTH SAFETY COMMITTEE
Chair, Head of Department
Dr Eileen Cheng
First Aid
Julia Cotton
College Safety Auditor
Jason Coyne
Meeting Secretary
Simon Davies
Departmental Safety Officer
(Earth Science Engineering)
Adrian Dorrington
Chief Fire Officer, Fire Safety Office
Guy Fairhurst
Building Manager
Ezra Feilden-Irving
Undergraduate Safety Representative
Stephen Greenwood
Faculty Safety Manager
Surrinder Johal
Safety Director, Health and Safety
Services
Kenneth Keating
Departmental Safety Officer
(Bioengineering)
Darakshan Khan
Display Screen Equipment Advisor
John Luke
College Safety Advisor, Dangerous
Goods Safety Advisor
Dr Peter Petrov
Departmental Safety Officer (Materials)
Daniel Price
Postgraduate Representative
Sabrina Skeete
Biological Safety Advisor
Chemical Safety Advisor
Dr Cephas Small
Research Staff Representative
Russell Stracey
Manual Handling Assessor and Trade
Union Representative
Richard Sweeney
Radiation Protection Advisor
Fraser Wigley
The remit of the Departmental Health
and Safety Committee is to advise
and assist the Head of Department in
the effective discharge of his health
and safety responsibilities and in this
respect to:
• Promote a positive health and safety
culture by, for example:
– Ensuring effective communication
of health and safety information.
– Disseminating best practice across
the Department.
– On an occasional basis,
conducting its own safety
inspections and audits.
• Monitor, review and advise on
the local arrangements for the
implementation of College health
and safety policies, procedures and
codes of practice.
• Monitor, review and advise on the
Department Health and Safety
Risk Register, which sets out the
principal hazards and risks present
in the Department.
• Monitor new initiatives and grant
proposals being put forward by the
Department, consider the health
and safety implications of any new
hazards which have been identified,
and advise on the appropriate
mitigating action.
induction and specialist training
provided for all departmental staff,
students, visitors and contractors.
inspection and audit programme of
the Department health and safety
performance, receive the resultant
reports and recommend action as
appropriate.
• Act as the departmental forum for
consultation with staff and students
on health and safety matters.
• Ensuring that there is proper
coordination, cooperation and
communication with other users of
shared and/or adjacent space, for
example through the consideration
of reports from building user groups.
• Monitor and review the
arrangements for dealing with
emergencies and the provisions for
emergency evacuations, evacuation
drills, first aid and reporting
accidents, incidents and non-
compliances.
• Receive reports of accidents, near
misses and work-related health
problems and monitor follow up
action as appropriate.
• Consider reports from trades
union and employee safety
representatives.
The Departmental Health and Safety
Committee meets once a term and is
chaired by the Head of Department.
CENTRALISED FACILITIES
COMMITTEE
Dr Mahmoud Ardakani
Research Officer (Electron Microscopy)
Dr Victoria Bemmer
Junior Research Officer (Materials
Characterisation)
Dr Sarah Fearn
Research Officer (Surface Analysis)
Dr Finn Giuliani
Undergraduate Lab Coordinator
Dr David McPhail
Manager (Surface Analysis facility)
Dr Michelle Moram
Manager (Atomic Force Microscopy
facility)
Dr David Payne
Manager (High Pressure Photoelectron
Spectroscopy facility)
Dr Peter Petrov
Research Officer (Thin Film Laboratory),
Chair, Director of Facilities
Russell Stracey
RSM workshop manager
Richard Sweeney
Senior Research Officer (XRD/Thermal
Analysis)
Claire Tibble
Meeting Secretary, Research Operations
Officer
Research Officer (Ambient High Pressure
Photoelectron Spectroscopy)
Chaired by the Director of Facilities, the
Centralised Facilities Committee’s main
aims are to:
• Monitor the funding, maintenance
and utilisation of the central
facilities.
• Ensure that the facilities are
accessible to all College members at
an appropriate cost.
• Identify areas where investment and
development are necessary, and
to propose funding applications to
address these requirements.
The committee meets three times
a year.
SUPPORT STAFF MEETINGS
The main aim of these meetings is
to ensure that support staff are kept
informed of matters affecting the
Department and to help them ensure
appropriate support is delivered. The
committee meets two times a year
and is chaired by the Departmental
Operations Manager. All support staff
are invited to attend.
TECHNICAL STAFF RESEARCH
OFFICERS COMMITTEE
Mohammad Adabi
Dr Mahmoud Ardakani
Research Officer (Electron Microscopy)
Dr Victoria Bemmer
Meeting Secretary, Junior Research
Officer (Materials Characterisation)
Centralised
Facilities
Committee
The Centralised Facilities
Committee’s main aims
are to:
• Monitor the funding,
maintenance and
utilisation of the central
facilities.
• Ensure that the
facilities are accessible
to all College members
at an appropriate cost.
• Identify areas where
investment and
development are
necessary, and to
propose funding
applications to address
these requirements.
HIGHLIGHTS

Dr Cora O’Reilly
Chair, Department Operations Manager
Postgraduate Tutor
Fraser Wigley
Representatives from each research
theme: Biomaterials and Tissue
Engineering, Ceramics and Glasses,
Engineering Alloys, Functional
Materials, Nanotechnology and
Nanoscale Characterisation, Theory and
Simulation of Materials.
The committee aims to ensure optimal
configuration of the space available to
the Department. This means:
For research:
• Anticipating and allocating the
space requirements for new research
equipment/facilities.
• Anticipating and allocating the
space requirements for new research
labs.
For teaching:
• Ensuring teaching labs and lecture
theatres are fit for purpose.
For the working environment:
• Ensuring office and communal
areas are efficiently configured and
conducive to productive working.
Specific roles in relation to these
aims are:
• Determine the policy and procedure
for desk allocations to postdoctoral
research staff, postgraduate
students, academic visitors and
other fixed term research staff. This
will then be implemented by the
Departmental Resources Manager.
• Allocate the space committee’s
annual budget to small
reconfiguration projects within the
Department.
• Ensure prioritisation of medium
to large scale reconfiguration
projects. These projects will then
be considered by the Head of
Department for inclusion in the
Department’s annual budgets.
• Individual committee members to
act as the champion (‘key user’) in
reconfiguration projects and liaise
with other relevant theme members
to ensure optimal layout for users
and the Department.
The committee meets every month,
alternating agenda items between
short term and long term space
considerations.
ATHENA SELF-ASSESSMENT
TEAM
Head of Department
Dr Liz Elvidge
Postdoc Development Centre, Athena
Assessor
Dr Sandrine Heutz
Academic staff representative (Reader)
Darakshan Khan
Dr Suze Kundu
Teaching Fellow and Outreach Officer
Dr David Payne
Academic staff representative (Lecturer)
Professor Mary Ryan
Chair, Athena Swan Coordinator
Sonia Tomasetig
Meeting Secretary
Postdoctoral research staff
representative
Postgraduate student
representative
Undergraduate student
representative
The Athena Self-Assessment Team (SAT)
is chaired by the Departmental Athena
Swan Coordinator. The SAT meets on a
bi-monthly basis and its remit is to:
• Monitor recruitment, progression
and the retention of all staff.
• Look at the systems in the
Department to make sure they are
fair, transparent and accessible.
• Ensure the Department continues
its commitment to advance gender
equality and enhance the working
environment.
• Consider issues of strategic
relevance, plan how best to address
issues of concern and how best to
optimise and disseminate current
good practice.
• Ensure that changes are made to
practices within the Department and
that these are communicated to the
staff.
SPACE COMMITTEE
Head of Department
Dr Andrew Horsfield
Darakshan Khan
Meeting Secretary, Departmental
Resources Manager
Benjamin Chan
Undergraduate Teaching Laboratory
Technician
Dr Richard Chater
Dr Eileen Cheng
Lab Technician in Tissue Engineering
Dr Sarah Fearn
Research Officer (Surface Analysis)
Jason Hoadley
Technician
Michael Lennon
Mechanical Workshop Technician
Dr Catriona McGilvery
Research Fellow
Dr Cora O’Reilly
Dr Peter Petrov
Safety Officer, Thin Film Technology
Manager
Chair, Director of Research
Sabrina Skeete
Biomaterials Technician
Garry Stakalls
Technician
Russell Stracey
RSM Workshop Supervisor
Richard Sweeney
Senior Research Officer (XRD/Thermal
Analysis)
Research Officer (Ambient Pressure
Photoelectron Spectroscopy)
Ecaterina Ware
Characterisation Facilities Technician
Fraser Wigley
Benjamin Wood
Chaired by the Director of Research,
the main aims of the Technical Staff
Research Officers Committee are to:
• Ensure that all technical staff are
kept informed of matters affecting
their work in the Department.
• Seek advice from the technical staff
regarding research and teaching
laboratory activities, the purchase
of new equipment and repair and
maintenance of existing equipment.
The committee meets monthly.
Alternate meetings are attended by
technical staff only and are chaired by
the Head of Technical Support.
External
Advisory Panel
The panel meets once a
year at Imperial and its
main remit is to act in
an advisory role to the
Head of Department,
Departmental
Management Committee
and its subcommittees,
in particular:
• To provide advice
on the structure
and content of the
undergraduate and
postgraduate courses
provided by the
Department.
• To provide advice
on the strategic
research focus of the
Department.
HIGHLIGHTS

IN THE SPOTLIGHT

We recognise the achievements of our staff and
students. The stories here include prizes and
awards, media mentions, innovative approaches
to education, VIP visits as well as invitations to
serve on high-profile committees.
Academic staff highlights
An unusual collaboration of Alberto
Scaccabarozzi, Dr Ester Buchaca-
Domingo, Dr Christoph Hellman and
Professor Natalie Stingelin with Mira
Calix, an award-winning composer,
artist and performer who works with
electronic-based music to incorporate
more classical orchestration, led to
the new sonic-art experience The Sun
is the Queen of Torches. The piece,
initiated by TEDAlbertopolis and
inspired by solar powered materials
(photovoltaics), was presented at the
Brighton Dome in December 2013.
Catherine McKinnel, MP for Newcastle
North Shadow Treasury Minister,
visited the Imperial Rolls-Royce Nuclear
University Technology Centre and the
Department of Materials in November
2013 to discuss industry uptake of
research and innovation. Paul Stein,
Chief Scientific Officer, Rolls-Royce plc,
visited Imperial Materials to discuss
the HexMat programme grant and the
potential nuclear research needs
of Rolls-Royce plc.
featured in The Wired Smart List 2013.
She was selected by Jim Al-Khalili,
Professor of Physics, University of
Surrey, who said: ‘Molly was one of
the very early guests on my Radio 4
programme The Life Scientific and she
was quite fascinating. What struck
me most is her ability to bring so
many different people from diverse
disciplines together under one roof.’
Click here for the full list.
Professor Bill Lee FREng was awarded
the Lee Hsun Lecture Award by the
Institute of Metal Research, Chinese
Academy of Sciences (IMR CAS). The
award honours research scientists who
have made important achievements
and great contributions to Materials
Science and Engineering and who have
promoted scientific cooperation and
exchanges.
Humboldt Research
Award
Professor Mike Finnis was
awarded the Humboldt Research
Award by the Alexander von
Humboldt Foundation of
Germany. Humboldt Awards
are granted in recognition of
the lifetime achievements of
an ‘internationally recognised
scientist from another country,
whose work has made a lasting
impact on their own field and
beyond, and from whom more
top-class scientific achievements
can be expected’.
HIGHLIGHTS
From left to right: Dr David Payne, Paul
Stein, Chief Scientific Officer, Rolls-Royce
plc and Professor Molly Stevens FREng

Professor Bill Lee FREng and Professor
Robin Grimes FREng (in his capacity as
ChiefScientific Advisor for the Foreign
and Commonwealth Office) were invited
to become members of the Nuclear
Innovation and Research Advisory
Board (NIRAB) which is chaired by Dame
Sue Ion OBE FREng (Visiting Professor in
the Department of Materials). NIRAB’s
remit is to advise Ministers, Government
Departments and Agencies on issues
relating to nuclear research and
innovation in the UK.
Dr David Payne was elected to the
Engineering and Physical Sciences
Research Council (EPSRC) Strategic
Advisory Team (SAT) for Research
Infrastructure. SATs exist to provide
Theme Leaders at EPSRC with strategic
advice that will assist them to develop,
implement and modify plans.
Professor Neil Alford MBE FREng was
made Chair of the EPSRC’s Physical
Sciences SAT.
Professor Robin Grimes FREng and
Dr Mark Wenman’s visit to Australia
in April 2014 was reported in The
Australian newspaper and featured
in a news announcement on the
University of NSW’s website. Robin
and Mark delivered some of the course
material of the Nuclear Engineering
masters program at the university,
under a new teaching partnership
agreement between the University of
NSW and Imperial’s Centre for Doctoral
Training in Nuclear Energy.
Research conducted by Professor
Molly Stevens FREng and her
colleagues featured in an article
entitled: Bioactive materials could
rebuild your body one day in Wired in
April 2014. Click here for the full article.
Professor Natalie Stingelin was
awarded the 2014 Rosenhain Medal
and Prize by the Institute of Materials,
Minerals and Mining. The prize is
awarded to candidates under the age
of 40 for distinguished achievement in
any branch of Materials Science.
Dr T Ben Britton was awarded the
2014 Silver Medal by the Institute of
Materials, Minerals and Mining. This
prize is awarded to a member under
the age of 30, in recognition of an
outstanding contribution to the broad
field of materials science, engineering
and technology, including promotion
of their subject on a national or
international basis.
Professor Molly Stevens FREng was
listed in Cells’ 40 under 40 list. Click
here for the full list.
awarded the 2014 Corday-Morgan Prize
by the Royal Society of Chemistry. The
Corday-Morgan prizes are awarded for
the most meritorious contributions to
chemistry.
MBE
Professor Neil Alford MBE
FREng was invited to
Buckingham Palace in November
2013 to receive his MBE for
services to Engineering.
HIGHLIGHTS
Below: Dr David Dye and
Professor Robin Grimes FREng
DPI / Bart van Overbeeke

Dr David Dye was awarded the 2014
Student Academic Choice by the
Imperial College Student Union in the
category of Innovation (teaching). Dr
Luc Vandeperre was also shortlisted
under the category of Best Tutoring.
Professor Fionn Dunne FREng and Dr
Saira Naeem featured in an article in
the May 2014 issue of International
Innovation, explaining the research
and rationale behind Heterogeneous
Mechanics in Hexagonal Alloys across
Length and Time Scales (HexMat).
HexMat is a five-year collaborative
EPSRC programme grant. International
Innovation is a leading scientific
dissemination service. Click here for
the full article.
Dr Helena Tellez, Dr John Druce,
Professor Tatsumi Ishihara and
Professor John Kilner were awarded
the Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
Contribution to Science Medal at
the 11th European SOFC and SOE
Conference in Lucerne, Switzerland,
in July 2014, for their project entitled:
Decrease of the electrochemically
active surface in mixed ionic-electronic
conductors (MIECs) by impurity
segregation.
Dr Finn Giuliani won first prize for
Best Poster at the Gordon Research
Conference on Thin Film and Small
Scale Mechanical Behavior, Bentley
University, MA, USA in July 2014 for his
poster entitled: In-situ deformation of
niobium interlayers.
Professor Neil Alford MBE FREng was
involved in the science media frenzy
that followed the release of the new
screen on the latest Apple iPhone
6 with interviews in the following
publications: MIT Technology Review,
Yahoo Tech, The Guardian and
Cable.co.uk.
Dr Theoni Georgiou was invited
to serve on the Macro Group UK
committee.
awarded the 2013 Karen Burt Memorial
Award by the Women’s Engineering
Society. The award is intended to
encourage more women to aim for
and celebrate the achievement of
Chartered Engineer status.
Professor Molly Stevens FREng and
her research group won the 2014
Research Group of the Year award by
the European Life Science Awards.
Professor Natalie Stingelin was awarded the 2014
Rosenhain Medal and Prize by the Institute of Materials,
Minerals and Mining. The prize is awarded to candidates
under the age of 40 for distinguished achievement in
any branch of materials science.
From left to right: Professor
Natalie Stingelin, Dr T Ben
Britton and Professor Fionn
Dunne FREng
Gottardi Prize
Professor Julian Jones was
awarded the 2014 Gottardi Prize
by the International Commission
on Glass. The prize is awarded
annually to a young person with
outstanding achievements in
the field of glass in research and
development, teaching, writing,
management or commerce.
HIGHLIGHTS

Dr Sergio Bertazzo was a finalist in the
International Science and Engineering
Visualization Challenge for his image of
a calcified heart valve. The competition
is sponsored by the National Science
Foundation and the journal Science.
Dr Manuela Russo won a prize for Best
Oral Presentation at the Department of
Materials Postdoctoral Staff Research
Symposium 2014. The prize consisted
of £100 (sponsored by Lenton) and
a one-year subscription to Nature
Materials.
Dr Esther Garcia Tunon Blanca
and Dr Christine-Maria Horejs were
joint runners up for the Best Oral
Presentation prize at the Department
of Materials Postdoctoral Staff
Research Symposium in January 2014.
The prize, sponsored by the CSI, was
valued at £50.
Dr Eleonora D’ Elia won a prize for Best
Poster Presentation at the Department
of Materials Postdoctoral Staff Research
Symposium 2014. The prize, sponsored
by CSI, was valued at £100.
Dr Cephas Small was runner up for
Best Poster Presentation prize at the
Department of Materials Postdoctoral
Staff Research Symposium 2014.
The prize, sponsored by the Postdoc
Development Centre, was valued at £50.
Dr Sergey Belyakov won the Best
Poster award for his poster entitled:
Influence of the IMC layer on nucleation
undercooling of βSn in solder joints
at the Pb-free Solders and Emerging
Interconnect and Packaging Materials
Symposium at TMS 2014 in San Diego,
USA. Sergey is supervised by Dr
Christopher Gourlay.
Dr Jun Jiang won the Best Poster prize
at the annual RMS EBSD meeting for
his poster entitled: Geometrically
necessary dislocation grain orientation
dependence study. Jun was invited to
write a report on the conference which
featured in Infocus magazine (issue 35,
September 2014). Jun is supervised by
Professor Fionn Dunne FREng and Dr T
Ben Britton.
Dr Kristina Kareh won the Best Poster
award at the EPSRC UK Solidification
Workshop at Brunel University in April
2014. Kristina is supervised by Dr
Christopher Gourlay.
Wellcome Image
Award
Dr Sergio Bertazzo received a
2014 Wellcome Image Award for
a scanning electron micrograph
of the surface of human heart
valve (aortic valve) tissue. The
awards recognise the creators of
the most informative, striking and
technically excellent images, as
chosen by a panel of judges.
HIGHLIGHTS
From left to right: Human heart (aortic
valve) tissue displaying calcification,
a calcified heart valve by Dr Sergio
Bertazzo.
Postdoctoral research
staff highlights
Images: Sergio Bertazzo, Department of Materials,
Imperial College London, Wellcome Images

Dr Gregor Fuhrmann was awarded
the 2013 Rottendorf Research Prize
by Rottendorf Pharma. The prize
recognises excellent pharmaceutical
research.
Dr Gregor Fuhrmann was awarded
the 2014 Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology (ETH) Medal for producing
an outstanding doctoral thesis.
Dr Lesley Chow was awarded
second prize for Best Poster at the
Musculoskeletal Technology Network
Meeting in April 2014.
Dr Philip Howes won the Analyst
Poster Prize for his poster entitled:
Quantum dots for multiplexed
detection of microRNAs as biomarkers
of myocardial fibrosis at the 2014 RSC
Analytical Research Forum in July 2014.
Dr Derfogail Delcassian and Christian
Loftus undertook an Expedition to
Tasmania (Into the Wind 2014) in May
2014, funded by the Imperial College
Exploration Board, and winning
external funding from the Lord Mayor’s
Trust. The group spent four weeks
undertaking a long distance triathlon
across the island, crossing from sea
to summit (and back to sea) by bike,
boat and boot, exploring Tasmania’s
range of niche ecosystems en route.
The Exploration Board aims to support
projects that reach a balance between
straightforward scientific research and
an adventurous holiday.
Dr Toby Basey-Fisher was awarded
the Constance Fligg Tipper Centenary
Memorial Prize. The prize, valued
at £100, is awarded annually to a
completing PhD student showing
the most industrial relevance and
independence in research with
outstanding contributions to Materials
Science and Engineering.
Dr Louise Connell was awarded the
Larry Hench Biomaterials Prize. The
prize, valued at £100, recognises
excellence in a PhD in a Biomaterials-
related subject.
Dr Jonathon Downing was awarded
the Matthey Prize. The prize, valued
at £200, is awarded annually to an
Associate of the Royal School of
Mines for research completed in the
Department of Materials.
Dr Gregor Fuhrmann was awarded the 2014 Swiss
Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Medal for
producing an outstanding doctoral thesis.
Dr Derfogail Delcassian and
Christian Loftus, Into the Wind
2014
Dr Gregor
Fuhrmann
OneStart Grand
Prize
A recently established spin-out
company founded by Dr Toby
Basey-Fisher won £100k as a part
of the 2014 OneStart grand prize
to further develop a device for
diagnosing anaemia, which uses
optical technology. OneStart is
an idea competition designed to
inspire, encourage and assist the
next generation of European bio-
entrepreneurs. The spin-out, Eva
Diagnostics, was selected from
over 100 competing companies.
HIGHLIGHTS

Linjun Wei was a member of the AWE
Ceramic and Glass Research Team
given the 2014 MoD Chief Scientific
Advisor Commendation Award. Linjun
completed an MSc project entitled:
Joining of boro-aluminate glasses to
Ti6Al4V, Nilo 48, Nilo 52 and Kovar
Alloys under the supervision of
Professor Bill Lee FREng.
Chedtha Puncreobutr was awarded a
2013 Educational Award for Excellence
(Engineering field). This is an annual
award for Thai students studying in the
UK who have a record of outstanding
performance during their PhD research.
Three images by Yongkun Luo were
selected for the front cover of Surface
Science, Volume 624, June, 2014.
Yongkun is supervised by Dr Rongshan
Qin.
Francesca Tallia was awarded the
Best Poster Prize at 12th International
Conference on Frontiers of Polymers
and Advanced Materials (ICFPAM),
in Auckland, New Zealand in
December 2013 for her poster entitled:
Functionalisation of OH groups in
polymers for Class II hybrids for bone
substitution. Francesca is supervised
by Professor Julian Jones and Professor
Eduardo Saiz Gutierrez on the BioBone
ITN.
Bernadette Elliott-Bowman won the
Student Prize at THERMEC 2013, in Las
Vegas in December 2013. Bernadette is
supervised by Dr Rongshan Qin.
Te-Cheng Su was awarded a highly
competitive Imperial College PhD
Scholarship. Recipients are amongst
the highest achievers in their
undergraduate cohort. The scholarship
covers tuition fees and £20.2k stipend
per annum for up to 3.5 years. Te-
Cheng is supervised by Dr Christopher
Gourlay.
Yaoyao (Jane) Xiong was awarded a
highly competitive Imperial College
PhD Scholarship. Recipients are
amongst the highest achievers in their
undergraduate cohort. The scholarship
covers tuition fees and £20.2k stipend
per annum for up to 3.5 years. Jane
is supervised by Professor Natalie
Stingelin.
Imperial College
PhDScholarship
Robert Charlton was awarded
a highly competitive Imperial
College PhD Scholarship to
undertake a PhD in the Centre
for Doctoral Training in Theory
and Simulation of Materials.
Recipients are amongst the
highest achievers in their
undergraduate cohort. Robert’s
scholarship covers tuition fees
and £20.2k stipend per annum for
4 years. Robert is supervised by
Professor Peter Haynes.
HIGHLIGHTS
Postgraduate students
highlights

Claudio Ferraro was awarded first
prize for Best Poster Design and
Layout at the Department of Materials
Postgraduate Research Day 2014.
Joseph Steele was awarded the Don
Pashley Memorial Prize and Medal for
the Best Scientific Content of a Lecture
given at the Department of Materials
Second place went to Eleonora D’Elia.
Francesca Tallia was awarded first
prize for Industrial Relevance at the
Department of Materials Postgraduate
Research Day 2014.
Jorge Costa was awarded first prize
for Best Scientific Content of a Poster
at the Department of Materials
Karla-Luise Herpoldt was awarded first
prize for Best Public Speaker at the
Research Day 2014. Second place went
to George Harrington.
Jianye Wang was awarded the Tony
Evans Memorial Prize. The prize,
valued at £100, is awarded annually
to the student with the best PhD
Thesis in the ceramics discipline as
determined by the Director of the
Structural Ceramics Centre based on
the examiners’ report.
Russell Woolley was awarded the John
Kilner Prize for Energy Materials. The
prize, valued at £100, is awarded for
excellence in a PhD study in any subject
related to materials for application in
energy conversion systems.
Hassan Tahini was awarded the TYC@
Imperial prize. The prize, valued at
£100, is awarded annually to the
student who has demonstrated
the most important and innovative
contribution to research in the Theory
and Simulation of Materials.
Mathide Jaona was awarded the Rolls-
Royce Prize in Nuclear Engineering.
This prize, valued at £400, is
awarded annually to the best student
graduating from the MSc Nuclear
Engineering degree programme.
Mathide Jaona was awarded the
William Penney Prize. The prize, valued
at £1,000, is awarded annually to the
student producing the best project on
the MSc in Nuclear Engineering course.
Robbie Lyons was awarded the William
Penney Prize. The prize, valued at £500,
is awarded annually to the student
producing the second best project on
the MSc in Nuclear Engineering course.
Diane Chircop was awarded the William
Penney Prize. The prize, valued at
£1,000, is awarded annually to the
student producing the best project on
the MSc in Advanced Materials Science
and Engineering course.
PatrickSteiger was awarded the William
Penney Prize. The prize, valued at £500,
is awarded annually to the student
producing the second best project on
the MSc in Advanced Materials Science
and Engineering course.
Claudio Ferraro was awarded
the Materials Image Prize at the
Research Day 2014. Second place went
to Zoltan Hiezl.
Celeste van den Bosch was awarded a
Royal Society of Chemistry Researcher
Mobility Fellowship, valued at £3,000,
to visit an institution in Spain.

Coline Jumeaux won the Graduate
Training Assistant (GTA) of the Year
Award which was presented by
Professor Alice Gast, President of
Imperial College London, in September
2014. The award demonstrates that the
Faculty of Engineering recognises the
integral role GTAs perform in teaching
within the Faculty, offers an incentive
to GTAs to strive for excellence in
their teaching, provides GTAs with
recognition for inclusion in their CVs
and encourages GTAs to talk and
think more about their approach to
teaching.
Joseph Steele won Best Poster Prize
for his poster entitled: Zonally-distinct
tissue regeneration within anisotropic
articular cartilage scaffolds at the
Imperial College Musculoskeletal
Technology Network Meeting in April
2014.
Joseph Steele was part of one of
two finalist teams of entrepreneurial
researchers selected to compete
in Biotechnology YES 2013.
Biotechnology YES is a business
plan competition for hypothetical
biotechnology and environmental
start-up companies.
Rachael Harrison won a prize for Best
Oral Presentation for her talk entitled:
Engineering gliding surfaces: focusing
on the human hand at the FIRM
Conference in September 2014.
Coline Jumeaux was awarded an IC
Trust Grant to attend the European
Society for Biomaterials (ESB)
conference in September 2014.
Amanda You was awarded an
Armourers Brasiers’ Gauntlet
Trust travel grant to attend the
Gordon Research Conference on
Biomineralization in August 2014.
Amanda You was awarded an Imperial
College Trust travel grant to attend
the Gordon Research Conference on
Biomineralization in August 2014.
Catherine Hansel was awarded the
Mark Seller Certificate of Excellence
for outstanding performance on the
MRes in Chemical Biology of Health
and Disease.
Harriet Gliddon was awarded a Poster
Award for her poster entitled: TB or not
Santander Mobility
Award
Tiantian Zhang received a
Santander Mobility Award, valued
at £1,000. These are awarded to
support students who are deemed
academically excellent and who
are studying or undertaking
research at Imperial 2014–15.
HIGHLIGHTS

TB: A diagnostic test for tuberculosis
using nanoparticle detection of a
whole blood multigene expression
signature at the MRC DTP Colloquium
at Imperial College London in
September 2014.
Harriet Gliddon was awarded Best
Essay Award for her essay entitled:
TB Diagnosis: A Work in Progress at
the MRC DTP Colloquium at Imperial
College London in September 2014.
Sound artist Felicity Ford was
commissioned to create a soundscape
for a six month exhibition in the
Turbine Hall by sculptor Richard Tuttle
called I Don’t Know – The Weave of
Textile Language. Felicity recorded
the sounds of rayon viscose being
synthesised in a laboratory in the
Department of Materials (with the
assistance of Dr Suze Kundu) which
can be heard on the Sonic Trails.
Click here to listen to the soundscape.
Celeste van den Bosch was awarded a Royal Society
of Chemistry Researcher Mobility Fellowship, valued
at £3,000, to visit an institution in Spain.
Penwortham
PrimarySchool
Mitch Cuddihy and Dr Saira
Naeem (HexMat Programme
Manager) led a group of HexMat
researchers, together with
Rolls-Royce Engineering Fellows
David Rugg and Steve Williams,
to Penwortham Primary School,
Tooting, in November 2013 to run
a half-day introduction to ‘How
do aeroplanes fly?’ This initiates
what is planned to be a long-term
relationship with Penwortham to
bring applied science events to
primary-level pupils.
HIGHLIGHTS

Myles Holbrough received an Old
Centralians’ Trust Student Activity
Award for 2014–15, valued at £700.
These are awarded to undergraduates
who are playing an active role in
Society, Sport or Union affairs.
Enric Juan Alcocer received an Old
Centralians’ Trust Student Activity
Award for 2014–15, valued at £700.
These are awarded to undergraduates
who are playing an active role in
Society, Sport or Union affairs.
Valerie Osband received an Armourers
and Brasiers’ Company Award, valued
at £100. These are awarded to students
in the Department of Materials for the
best third year design study.
Pawel Palczynski received an
Armourers and Brasiers’ Company
Award, valued at £100. These are
awarded to students in the Department
of Materials for the best third year
design study.
Hayley Turner received an Armourers
and Brasiers’ Company Award, valued
at £100. These are awarded to students
in the Department of Materials for the
best third year design study.
Adisorn Techanitisawad received an
Armourers and Brasiers’ Company
Award, valued at £100. These are
awarded to students in the Department
of Materials for the best third year
design study.
Luca Iuzzolino was awarded the
Bessemer Medal. This prize is awarded
to a final year undergraduate student
for the Associateship of the Royal
School of Mines for excellence in
Metallurgy and Materials.
Salome Chabran was awarded the
Charles Salter Prize, valued at £75.
This prize is award for excellence in
Metallurgy to a student completing his/
her finals in this subject.
Daryl Liang was awarded an Ernest
Edward Glorney Scholarship, valued at
£500. These scholarships are awarded
for excellence and to an undergraduate
student completing the final year
examinations in Materials. The
Scholarship may be used (a) to study
for another year at the College; (b) to
obtain practical training after leaving.
Lars Blumenthal was awarded an
Ernest Edward Glorney Scholarship,
valued at £500. These scholarships
are awarded for excellence and to an
undergraduate student completing the
final year examinations in Materials.
The Scholarship may be used (a) to
study for another year at the College;
(b) to obtain practical training after
leaving.
Samuel Loke was awarded the
Governors’ BEng Prize in Materials,
valued at £100. This prize is awarded
to an outstanding student in the final
undergraduate year of the BEng course.
Harpal Khing was awarded the
Governors’ MEng Prize in Materials,
to an outstanding student in the
final undergraduate year of the MEng
course.
Hannah Puccetti was awarded the
Institute of Materials Prize, valued
at £200. This prize is awarded to a
final year student of the Department
of Materials for performance during
the whole of his/her undergraduate
course. In addition to examination
results, particular attention is given
to character, personality and to
participation in general College or
university activities.
Alexandru Crisan was awarded the
Materials Student Centenary Prize,
to the fourth year undergraduate
student who is judged to have
completed the best MEng placement
project.
Brian Sum was awarded the Morgan
Advanced Ceramics Undergraduate
Prize, valued at £500. This prize is
Undergraduate students
highlights

awarded to the student in the second
year who achieves the highest mark
for a ceramics extended laboratory
project.
Grace Fong was awarded the Peter
Pratt Memorial Prize, valued at
£100. This prize is awarded to the
undergraduate student from the
Department of Materials who produces
the best final year project.
Yulin Gao was awarded a Rolls-Royce /
Armourers and Brasiers’ Company First
Year Undergraduate Award, valued at
£200. This is awarded to the top two
performing first year undergraduate
students.
Milla Puolamaa was awarded a Rolls-
Royce / Armourers and Brasiers’ First
Year Undergraduate Award, valued at
£200. This is awarded to the top two
performing first year undergraduate
students.
Simon Steinvall was awarded the
Ronald Jock McGregor Prize, valued
at £150. This prize is awarded to an
undergraduate student from the
Department of Materials who produces
the best second year case study.
Aloisius Purnama was awarded the
Thomas Young Centre Mathematics
Prize, valued at £100. This prize
is awarded to the second year
undergraduate student achieving
the highest overall mark in the
Mathematics and Computing Course
(MSE.201).
Irina Rasid was awarded a Tin Plate
Workers’ Prize, valued at £250. This
prize is given to the two third year
MEng students who achieve the
highest overall score.
Youning Zhou was awarded a Tin
Plate Workers’ Prize, valued at £250.
This prize is given to the two third
year MEng students who achieve the
highest overall score.
John Wheatley was awarded a Daiwa
Scholarship. He is one of only six
new Daiwa Scholars to be awarded
following a very competitive selection
process. John will be based in Tokyo
from September 2014 until March 2016
and will receive intensive language
training, have opportunities to network
with decision-makers in his field
and undertake work placements at
organisations relevant to his career
goals.
Alexandru Crisan was awarded the Materials
Student Centenary Prize, valued at £200.
This prize is awarded to the fourth year
undergraduate student who is judged to have
completed the best MEng placement project.
NationalWomen in
Engineering Day
The Department was the only
one in the Faculty of Engineering
to hold an outreach event to
celebrate the first ever National
Women in Engineering Day. 30
Key Stage 3 students (aged 11 to
14) attended a full day of hands-
on activities, reciprocal learning
tasks and presentation skills all
based around the contributions
that women in Materials Science
and engineering have made to
our everyday lives. The event
was supported by Professor
Ann Muggeridge, the Faculty
Ambassador for Women, and
by visiting lecturer for the
Department and supporter of
diversity in engineering, Dame
Sue Ion OBE FREng.
HIGHLIGHTS

DEGREE Awards

We congratulate the following
students who succeeded in
meeting this challenge and who
graduated in the 2013–14 period.
We wish them every success in
their future careers.
Engineering (BEng)
Ali Mohamed Alkhawajah
Lars Blumenthal
Theo Bystrom
Hjh Hamizah Dp Haji Mohd Nor
Hui Ni Grace Fong
Soo Yeon Hong
Yeting Jiang
Cheng Yen Lao
Ka Ki Law
Jing Ting Lee
Justin Leung
Fang Xin Li
Kailun Li
Shaoyang Liu
Samuel Loke
Yi Ting Low
Yue Lu
Feixueer Luo
Zeye Lv
Francesca Mazzone
Hemant Morjaria
Valerie Osband
Leon Pay
Oliver Pia
Joe Protheroe
Hannah Puccetti
Yanisa Srirungkitsward
Adisorn Tachanitiswad
Milan Thakore
Haomin Wang
Tesheng Wang
Zijun Wei
Theodore Wou
Dan Yang Wu
Xiangyu Xie
Zihua Yang
Daryl Yee Wei Liang
Yuen Yiu
Undergraduate
degree awards
80%
100%
60%
40%
20%
0%
2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14
First and Upper Second
First
Upper Second
Lower Second
Third
Summary of undergraduate degrees awarded
(2009–2014)
Materials with Management
(BEng)
Jack Ah Teck
Kar Kei Chan
Sonyan Huang
John Lee
Yiqiao Liu
Engineering (MEng)
Shardul Biwalker
Karissa Chan
Thomas Cosnahan
Alexandru Crisan
Jack Evans
Gavin Green
Toller Hao
Luca Iuzzolino
Faizan Javed
Harpal Khing
Seo Kim
Cong Lu
Natasha Lunn
Amar Mody
Completing a degree in the Department of
Materials is a huge achievement. It involves
commitment, hard work, discipline and the
ability to meet extraordinarily high standards.
Thomas Moss-McCrory
Christopher Ogunlesi
Tian Sang
William Stocker
Haow Bin Tee
John Wheatley
Nicholas Whiteway
Shengda Xu
Yuzhou Zheng
Aerospace Materials
(MEng)
Salome Chabran
Engineering (MEng)
Fanny Dehaine
Paul Jones

David Clarke
‘Smart’ self-assembled ß-sheet poly
(γ-glutamic acid) hybrid hydrogels
Award date: 01 June 2014
Supervisors: Professor Natalie Stingelin,
Kristy Cloyd
Shedding light on living cells and
mineralised tissues using Raman
spectroscopy
Award date: 01 August 2014
Supervisors: Professor Molly Stevens
FREng, Dr Adrian Chester
Louise Connell
Natural and synthetic polymer-based
hybrid materials for tissue regeneration
Award date: 01 February 2014
Supervisor: Professor Julian Jones
Derfogail Delcassian
Biomimetic substrates for immune cell
activation
Award date: 01 March 2014
Supervisors: Professor Molly Stevens
FREng, Dr Iain Dunlop
Christabel Evans
Micromechanisms and micromechanics
of Zircaloy-4
Award date: 01 July 2014
Supervisor: Dr David Dye
Lydia Fawcett
Electrochemical performance and
compatibility of La2
NiO4+δ
electrode
material with La0.8
Sr0.2
Ga0.8
Mg0.2
O3
electrolyte for solid oxide electrolysis
Award date: 01 May 2014
Supervisors: Professor Stephen Skinner,
Professor John Kilner
Benjamin Foss
Oxidation and oxygen transport in a
We congratulate the students listed
below on completing their MPhils
and PhDs and wish them the best
of luck in their future endeavours.
MPhil awards
Gabriel Mecklenburg
Functionalised polymer fibres
for orthopaedic interfacial tissue
engineering and other biomedical
applications
Award date: 01 May 2014
Supervisors: Dr Iain Dunlop, Professor
Molly Stevens FREng
Kuan-Cheng Yeh
Growth and properties of BiMnO3
thin films
Award date: 01 December 2013
Supervisors: Dr Peter Petrov, Dr Martyn
McLachlan
PhD awards
Zhangwei Chen
Mechanical properties of
La0.6
Sr0.4
Co0.2
Fe0.8
O3
fuel cell electrodes
Award date: 01 June 2014
Supervisors: Dr Finn Giuliani, Professor
Alan Atkinson
Constantin Ciurea
The influence of temperature on the
mechanical behaviour of ceramics in
Ti1-x
Alx
N system
Award date: 01 February 2014
Supervisors: Dr Finn Giuliani, Professor
Neil Alford MBE FREng
MSc in Advanced Materials
Gulnaz Bulebayeva
Yinghui Cao
Wan-Ting Chen
Diane Chircop
David Conway
Jozerd Costan
Helene de Maleprade
Ezra Feilden-Irving
David Soon Kiat Lee
Zhenqi Li
Wei-Hsin Liao
Yvonne Lim
Yao Meng
Thomas Mullners
Yiqi Pan
Zonghao Shen
Patrick Steiger
Bo Sun
Christina Topouzeli
Yaqian Wang
Linjun Wei
Tianyun Ye
Ana Yong
Zebang Zheng
MSc in Biomedical
Engineering
with Biomaterials*
Zahra Abuali
Zhen Li
Alfonso Muinelo Herranz
Konstantinos Pietris
Sujata Ravi
Johanna Schmidt
Amal Sefrioui
Pannita Snidvongs Na Ayudhaya
Lucien Talvard
Marianne Thaila
Alain Vella
* offered jointly with the
Department of Bioengineering
MPhil and
PhD awards
MSc in Nuclear Engineering
Tunde Adigun
Emmanuel Andrieu
Atyab Calloo
Antoine Callow
Ke Deng
Antoine Dulcoux
Conor Galvin
Elizabeth Howett
Bek Kairoshev
Alif Imran Mohd Shuhaimi
Kristijonas Plauoinaitis
Jamie Sahote
Wei Wu
Noratiqah Yaakop
Postgraduate taught
degree awards
Postgraduate
Masters Courses
The Department of
Materials runs MSc
courses in Biomedical
Engineering with
Biomaterials (with
the Department of
Bioengineering),
Nuclear Engineering
and Advanced Materials
Science and Engineering.
The Department
also contributes to
the MSc course in
Composite Materials
run by the Centre for
Composite Materials
in the Department of
Aeronautics.
HIGHLIGHTS
The road to completing a PhD is filled
with challenges and pressures as well
as exhilaration, immense satisfaction
and a sense of achievement at the
end. Our postgraduate students are
at the frontiers of their subjects.
They have made contributions to their
scientific fields, pushed and tested the
boundaries of knowledge and achieved
new levels of learning. We look forward
to each of them realising the full
impact of their success as they develop
their careers into the future.

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