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Ben Robinson, Senior Research Associate

Expertise: Molecular electronics, scanning probe microscopy in various environments, Ultrasonic Force Microscopy, self assembled monolayers, graphene characterization.

Current projects: GRaphENe for NAnoscaleD Applications (GRENADA, FP7)

 
     
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Manuel Pumarol, Research Associate

Expertise: Metal nanowires, Scanning Thermal Microscopy (SThM), HV techniques, graphene and CNT characterization.

Current projects: Nanoscale CNT based thermal probe (EPSRC)

 
     
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Bob Jones, Research officer

Expertise: Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), Scanning Probe Microscopy (SPM), LB films, materials characterization

Current projects: Nanoscale CNT based thermal probe (EPSRC); Ultrafast Switching of Phase Change Materials: Combined Nanosecond and Nanometer Exploration (EPSRC UK - NSF USA Materials World Network).

 
     
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Ilja Grishin, Ph.D. student

Project: Ultrafast Switching of Phase Change Materials: Combined Nanosecond and Nanometer Exploration (EPSRC UK - NSF USA Materials World Network).

 
     
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Peter Tovee, Ph.D. student

Project: Nanoscale CNT based thermal probe (EPSRC and Lancaster FST Open Competition scholarship)

 
     
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Riccardo Mazzocco, Ph.D. student

Project: GRaphENe for NAnoscaleD Applications (GRENADA, FP7, NowNANO DTC, Lancaster FST Open Competition Scholarship)

 
     
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Claire Tinker, Ph.D. student

Project: Amylin fibres nanostructure and assembly mechanisms via scanning probe microscopy (EPSRC and Physics Department Scholarship)

 
     
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Nick Kay, M.Phys. project student (2011-12)

Project: Nanomechanical properties of free and supported graphene films in liquid environment using scanning force microscopy (NowNANO DTC)

 
     
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Maria Timofeeva, Marie Curie Fellow, Ph.D. student at St. Petersburg Academic University, Russia

Project: Thermal transport in scanning probe microscopy sensors with functional nanorod probes in various environment (EU FUNPROB project, PIRSES-GA-2010-269169)

 
     
 

David Huskisson, Nuffield Bursary Research Student (2012)

Project: Direct heterodyne optical interferometry studies of nonlinear dynamic phenomena in Ultrasonic Force Microscopy.

 

 
     
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Philippa Bailey, M. Phys project student (2011-2012).

Project: Micro-elasticity and micro-mechanics of biological and biomimetic materials using elastography and optical coherence tomography (OCT).

 
     
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Jamie Price, M.Phys project student (2011-2012).

Project: Micro-elasticity and micro-mechanics of biological and biomimetic materials using shear wave elastography and optical microscopy.

 
     
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Oleg Kolosov, Group Leader

Reader in Experimental Condensed Matter Physics

 

 
 

CURRENT COLLABORATORS

 
Franco Dinelli CNR, Pisa, ITALY  
Pasqualantonio Pinque Scuola Normale, Pisa, ITALY  
Brian Huey University of Connecticut, CT, USA  

Tony Krier, Manus Hayne, Alex Robson, Hubert Pollock

Semiconductor Physics and Nanostructures Group, Physics Department, Lancaster University, UK  
Rich Haley, Victor Tsepelin, Shaun Fisher Ultra-Low Temperature Group, Physics Department, Lancaster University, UK  
Aneta Stefanovska Nonlinear Biomedical Physics, Physics Department, Lancaster University, UK  
Vladimir Falko Physics Department, Lancaster University, UK  
Frank Martin LEC, Lancaster University, UK  
David Allsop Health and Medicine, Lancaster University, UK  
Victor Efimov Inst of Solid State Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Chernogolovka, Russia  
Dagou Zeze, Mark Rosamond, Mike Petty School of Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of Durham, UK  
Leo Matsiev, James Bennett S.E.A. Medical, Santa Clara, CA, USA  
Mohammed Henini Physics Department, University of Sheffield, UK  
Kiriakos Porphirakis Materials Department, Oxford University, UK  
Oliver Wright University of Hokkaido, Sapporo, JAPAN  
Colin Lambert Physics Department, Lancaster University, UK  
Roshan Shetty, Kevin Kjoller, Craig Prater Anasys Instruments, CA, USA  
Andrey Shubin NT-MDT, Zelenograd, RUSSIA  
Frank Fang

Statek, Orange, CA, USA

 
     
     
 

FORMER GROUP MEMBERS

 
Brian Huey    
Franco Dinelli    
Teresa Cuberes    
Mar Puentes Heras    
Odile Lefevre    
Else Erriksen    
Leo Matsiev    
Tamara Senyushkina    
James Bennett    
Miro Petro    
Damian Hajduk    
Paul Mansky    
Eric Carlson    
Sigrid Kuebler    
Olaug Grude    
Alex Robson    
Andrew Hoyle