Currently active PhD students

Shane Davies

PhD project: Nanoscale patterning of interfaces for thermo-electrics

Supervisors: Dr Steve Hepplestone, Prof GP Srivastava and Dr David Horsell

Beth Staples

PhD project:Control of flow-induced near-field noise through the use of metasurfaces

Supervisors: Prof Alastair Hibbins, Prof Roy Sambles and Dr Alan Curtis

Valentin Haemmerli

PhD project: Ultrafast single photon sources

Supervisors: Dr Isaac Luxmoore and Prof Bill Barnes

Joshua Glasbey

PhD project: Manipulating the Coupling and Scattering between Surface Waves and Plane Waves on Metasurfaces and at their Discontinuities

Supervisors: Prof Alastair Hibbins, Prof Roy Sambles and Prof. Richard Craster

George Braid

PhD project: Laser implosion fusion for clean energy generation

Supervisors: Prof C. David Wright and Prof Jacopo Bertolotti

Jenner Gudge-Brooke

PhD project: Miniaturised helical antennas for superdirectivity

Supervisors: Prof Alastair Hibbins, Prof Roy Sambles and Dr Alex Powell

Charlie Patrickson

PhD Project: Spin Qubits in 2D Materials

Supervisors: Dr Isaac Luxmoore and Prof Geoff Nash

Jonathon Smith

PhD Project: Next Generation metasurfaces: tensorial surfaces for novel antenna functionality

Supervisors: Prof Alastair Hibbins, Dr Simon Horsley and Dr Ian Hooper

Stuart Kendall

PhD Project: Active optical metasurfaces for AI-based photonic computing

Supervisors: Prof C. David Wright and Prof Jacopo Bertolotti

Ben Scott

PhD Project: Self-actuating surfaces for tunable microwave metamaterials

Supervisors: Dr Alex Powell and Prof Ken Evans

Kieran Cowan

PhD Project: Retrodirective Metamaterials for Long-Range Identification and Sensing

Supervisors: Dr Alex Powell and Prof Alastair Hibbins

Philip Skelland

PhD Project: Hydroacoustic Metamaterials for Focusing and Filtering Underwater Sound

Supervisors: Prof Alastair Hibbins and Dr Tim Starkey

Calvin Hooper

PhD Project: The theory of space-time varying metamaterials

Supervisors: Dr Simon Horsley, Dr Ian Hooper and Dr James Capers

George Neville-White

PhD Project: All optical manipulation of phase in the mm-wave band

Supervisors: Prof Euan Hendry, Prof Dave Phillips and Dr Ian Hooper

Harry McLean

PhD Project: Non-equilibrium heat in flow in electrodes and patterned interfaces

Supervisors: Dr Steven Hepplestone and Dr David Horsell

Robyn Edge

PhD Project: Active and Time-varying meta-based manipulation of acoustic and elastic waves

Supervisors: Dr Tim Starkey and Dr Greg Chaplain

Simon Preston

PhD Project: Non-linear and dynamic behaviours of auxetic metamaterials

Supervisors: Dr Julian Londono-Monsalve and Prof Ken Evans

Yuxin Zhao

PhD Project: Integrated phase-change photonics for non-von Neumann computing

Supervisors: Prof C David Wright and Dr Changxu Liu

Bryce Dixon

PhD Project: Time Varying Metasurfaces: using rapidly varying components for arbitrary wave transformations

Supervisors: Simon Horsley, Ian Hooper, Alastair Hibbins 

Erica Paul

PhD Project: Time Varying Acoustic Metamaterials

Supervisors: Greg Chaplain, Simon Horsley, Alastair Hibbins

Jon Middle

PhD Project: Quantum theory of topological phase transitions for cavity polaritons in optical metasurfaces

Supervisors: Eros Mariani, Charles Downing

Yongtu Zou

PhD Project: Artificial-intelligence-Enabled Active Metamaterials

Supervisors: Changxu Liu, David Wright

Matt Garman

PhD Project: 2D-Material Based Quantum Sensors for Nanoscale NMR

Supervisors: Isaac Luxmoore, Luca Dellantonio