Research Students Postdoctoral Associates
Dr. Michelle Rigozzi(PhD: 2011)
  • Now:
    		• Dr. Alessio Zaccone
  • Now: Oppenheimer Research Fellow in TCM, Cavendish Lab
    • Dr. Yan Yan (Shery) Huang(PhD: 2011)
  • Now: Oppenheimer Research Fellow in Inst of Biotechnology and Cavendish Lab
    		• Dr. Yan Ji
  • Now: Associate Professor at Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing
    • Dr. Jamie Blundell(PhD: 2011)
  • Now: Postdoc at London Institute for Mathematical Sciences
    		• Dr. Juergen Schmidtke
  • Now: Postdoc at Physikalische Chemie , Univ. Paderborn
    		•
    Dr. Chia-Hung Chen(PhD: 2010)
  • Next destination: Postdoc at MIT
    		• Dr. Linda Payet
  • Now: Postdoc at LAMBE, Université d'Evry, Ile de France
    		•
    Dr. Francesca Serra(PhD: 2009)
  • Next destination: Postdoc at Department of Physics, University of Milan
    		• Dr. Ali Tajbakhsh
  • Now retired
    		•
    Dr. Joanne Gornall (PhD: 2008)
  • Next destination: Postdoc at School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol
    		• Dr. Ian Graham
  • Now at: Decision Technology, researching statistics of football for Fink Tank
    • Yoshihito Hirota (MPhil: 2007)
  • Now at: Mitsui Chemicals Corporation, Japan
    		• Dr. Anne Ladegaard Skov (nee: Larsen)
  • Now: faculty at Danish Technical University, Lyngby
    • Dr. Wendy Vandoolaeghe (PhD: 2006)
  • Next destination: Patent expert at Page, White and Farrer, London
    		• Dr. Thomas Tixier
  • Now: faculty, Department of Physics, University of West Indies at Mona, Jamaica
    • Dr. Samit Ahir (PhD: 2006)
  • Now: Group Executive at Makevale Group, Hertfordshire
    		• Dr. Sebastien Courty
  • Next destination: Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, ENS Ulm, Paris
    • Dr. Aidan Craig (PhD: 2006)
  • Now: Technical consultant at Innovia Technology, Cambridge
    		• Dr. Adam Squires
  • Now: faculty, School of Chemistry, Reading University
    • Dr. Loucas Petridis (PhD: 2005)
  • Next destination: Postdoc at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee
    		• Dr. Peter Petrov
  • Now: faculty, Department of Physics, University of Exeter
    • Dr. Atsushi Hotta (PhD: 2003)
  • Now: faculty, Mechanical Engineering, Keio University, Japan
    		• Dr. Stuart Clarke
  • Now: faculty, The BP Institute, Cambridge
    • Joseph Chan (MPhil: 2003)
  • Next destination: PhD student at Physics Department, UC Santa Barbara
    		• Dr. Florence Elias
  • Next destination: LMDH, Université Paris 6
    • Dr. Samuel Kutter (PhD: 2002)
  • Co-founder of technology company Heliovis AG
    		• Dr. Serguei Fridrikh
  • Next destination: Dartmouth College, New Hampshire
    • Hyon-Min Song (MPhil: 2002)
  • Next destination: PhD student at Department of Chemistry, Purdue University
    		• Dr. Paulo Teixeira
  • Now: Lecturer at Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, Lisboa

    • Dr. Mark Osborne (PhD: 2002)

    Dr. Roland Ruhwandl (PhD: 1997)

    Summer Students (Published work)
    2001: Patrick Hogan (UCam) "UV-actuators from nematic elastomers - 1 "
    2001: Samit Ahir (Imperial) "Rheology across phase transition boundary - 1"
    "Rheology across phase transition boundary - 2"
    2002: Jean Cviklinski (Paris) "UV-actuators from nematic elastomers - 2"
    2003: Judith Mine (Paris) "Electromechanical actuator from nematic nano-composite rubber"
    2004: Guillaume Lagubeau (Paris) "Polymer - carbon nanotube composites"
    2005: Yanyan Huang (Imperial) "Dispersion of carbon nanotubes in viscous polymers"
    2006: Clare Harvey (UCam) "Role of polarisation in photo-actuator response of nematic elastomers"
    2007: Kwong Hon (UCam) "Bending kinetics in nematic elastomer cantilever"
    2009: Lukas Witkowski (UCam) "Quenched disorder and X-ray scattering in smectic elastomers"