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| October 2011. Left to right: Lucia Parolini, Avelino Javer, Himantha Cooray, Nicolas Bruot, Simon Wongswarn, Elodie Aumaitre, Matt Grant, Alex Crick, Sarra Achouri, Eileen Nugent, Jurij Kotar, Pietro Cicuta. (We're missing Krystyna Bromek and Eugenia Cammarota here). Scroll below for older photos. |
Principal Investigator
Dr Pietro Cicuta
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Postdoctoral Research Assistants
Dr Jurij Kotar - now part time shared with other BSS PIs
Dr Krystyna Bromek - joint project with Ulrich Keyser
Dr Eileen Nugent
PhD Students
Elodie Aumaitre (started Oct. 2008)
Simon Wongsuwarn (started Oct. 2008)
Himantha Cooray (started Oct. 2008)
Sarra Achouri (started Apr. 2009)
Matt Grant (started Oct. 2009)
Alex Crick (started Oct. 2010)
Nicolas Bruot (started Oct. 2010)
Avelino Javer (started Oct. 2010)
Previously with us (date of working with us, and destination where known)
Aidan Brown (PhD student Oct. 2007 to March 2011, now at Imperial College, London)
Dr Young Zoon Yoon, now at Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, South Korea
Dr Debjani Paul
Sheel Shah (1 year research MPhil 2009-10, now in Caltech/UCLA graduate programme)
Elisabetta Spigone (PhD student Jan. 2006 to Sept. 2009, now employed by Nokia research labs)
Several Part III project students: Toby Ferenczi (2006, then PhD in Imperial College), Sarah Kendall (2006, then PhD in Cavendish), Katherine Shaw (2007, then at Procter and Gamble), James Adams (2006), Matthew Maitland (2006), Ben Harden (2007, then PhD in UEA), Gary Doctors (2007, then PhD in UCL), Daniel Shanahan (2009), Sabine Crevoisier (2010), Imogen Whittam (2010, now PhD in Cambridge), Dean Montgomery (2011).
A few Laurea thesis students from Italy: Marco Leoni (in 2007, now PhD in Bristol), Roberto Bondesan (2007), Elisa Tamborini (2008, now PhD in Montpellier), Marco Grisi (2010), Agostino Romeo (2010, now PhD in Parma), Lucia Parolini (2011-2012).
A few stagiaires from France: Sarra Achouri (2007, now PhD student with us), Nicolas Bruot (2009, now PhD student with us), Loic Damet (2010), Romain Lhermerout (2011)
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| November 2010. Left to right: Himantha Cooray, Jurij Kotar, Avelino Javer, Matt Grant, Simon Wongswarn, Alex Crick, Elodie Aumaitre, Nicolas Bruot, Eileen Nugent, Aidan Brown, Debjani Paul, Krystyna Bromek, Young Zoon Yoon, Pietro Cicuta. (We're missing Sarra Achouri here). |
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| Summer 2009. Left to right: Aidan Brown, Elodie Aumaitre, Simon Wongswarn, Sarra Achouri, Nicolas Bruot, Elisabetta Spigone, Young Zoon Yoon, Jurij Kotar, Himantha Cooray, Pietro Cicuta. |





