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ADEPT – Advanced Devices by ElectroPlaTing

Past team members

Mehrdad Alibouri
Mehrdad Alibouri
Mehrdad Alibouri, Research Fellow in Physics, University of Southampton


Mehrdad received his MSc and PhD in chemical engineering from the Isfahan University of Technology (Isfahan, Iran) in 2001 and 2009, respectively. He worked at the Research Institute of Petroleum Industry (RIPI)- Catalysis and Nanotechnology Divison as researcher from 2005-2012 where he worked on synthesis of nanocatalysts using supercritical deposition. In 2012, He joined the SCFED project at the University of Southampton as a postdoctoral research fellow. He designed and developed novel high-pressure and temperature reactors up to 1000 bar and 300 °C for the SCFED project and he was named inventor on two patents during that time.  He is currently working on the development of novel reactors for electrochemistry and electrodeposition. He was awarded Chartered Engineer (CEng) and Chartered Scientist (CSci) Registration by the IChemE Council in 2016. Mehrdad left the team in November 2018 to join a start-up company.

 

Mohsin Aziz
Mohsin Aziz
Mohsin Aziz, Research Fellow in Materials Characterisation, University of Southampton


Mohsin received his Master’s Degree in Physics in 2006 from University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan, and his Ph.D. from the University of Nottingham in 2014, during which time he worked on electrical and optical characteristics of III-V and II-VI semiconductor materials. He then worked as a research fellow at the University of Exeter from 2013-2015. From 2015 he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Glasgow, where his research focussed on Sb-based infrared detectors and LEDs.  He joined the ADEPT project in February 2017, where he is working on novel infrared materials and devices. He has published more than 25 papers in international journals and conference proceedings. Mohsin joined Plessey Semiconductors in November 2018. 

 

David Cook
David Cook
David Cook, Research Fellow in Electrochemistry, University of Southampton

David completed his MChem at the University of Southampton between 1997 and 2001. In 2005 he submitted his doctoral thesis entitles: An Investigation into the Electrochemical Properties of Nanostructured Metals and Their Application as Amperometric Biosensors. He returned to the university in 2006 as a post-doctoral researcher on the Supercritical Fluid Electrodeposition - Basic Technology Grant. In 2012 he was promoted to Senior Postdoctoral Research Fellow. David left the team in 2018 to embark on a PGCE. 

 

 

Ruomeng Huang
Ruomeng Huang
Ruomeng Huang, Research Fellow in Nanoelectronics, University of Southampton


Ruomeng studied Physics at East China Normal University, receiving a BSc in 2008 and a MEd in 2009. He obtained his MSc in Nanoelectronics and Nanotechnology from the University of Southampton in 2010, followed by a PhD investigating the confined nanoscale chalcogenide phase change material and memory in 2015. He was awarded an EPSRC Doctoral Prize in 2015 to continue his research in nanoscale chalcogenides and metal oxides. He is currently a Research Fellow in the Sustainable Electronic Technologies Group in the University of Southampton, where his research focus is nanostructured chalcogenide materials and metal oxides, for both non-volatile memory and thermoelectric applications. He is a Co-Investigator on an STFC-funded grant for the development of thin film thermoelectric generators, in addition to being part of the ADEPT team. Ruomeng was appointed as a lecturer in Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton in early 2019. 

Reza Kashtiban
Reza Kashtiban
Reza Kashtiban, Research Fellow in Microscopy, University of Warwick

Reza studied physics at the Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, Iran. He moved to the University of Manchester where he obtained his PhD with Prof. Ursel Bangert in 2010. He joined the Department of Physics at the University of Warwick as a Research Fellow in 2010. His research focuses on the study of structural and compositional properties of nanomaterials by techniques including advanced Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) and Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy (STEM). He has experience in analysing compositional properties of nanostructured materials through Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy (EELS) technique both in Plasmon and core loss regimes. He also specialises in phase restoration by Exit Wave Reconstruction of Focal Series. Reza joined another programme grant at the University of Warwick in July 2019. 

Gabriela Kissling
Gabriela Kissling
Gabriela Kissling, Research Fellow in Electrochemistry University of Southampton

Gabriela studied chemistry at the University of Bern in Switzerland. She moved to the University of Bristol where she obtained her PhD with Dr. David Fermín in 2011. She was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Southampton from 2011-2014, before moving to Bath to work on deposition of characterisation of copper zinc tin sulfide solar cell materials. She returned to Southampton in 2016. Her work on the ADEPT programme invloves electrodeposition of binary and ternary alloys within micro and nanostructured substrates. Gabriela returned to Switzerland in Summer 2019 and now works at the Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften (Zurich University of Applied Sciences) on a project investigating charge transport in organic semiconductors using electrochemical methods and modelling.

Andy Lodge
Andy Lodge
Andrew Lodge, Research Fellow in Chemistry, University of Southampton

Andrew graduated from the University of York with an MChem in Chemistry in 2010. He graduated from the University of Southampton with a Ph.D. in 2015 researching the electrochemical reduction of oxygen in room temperature ionic liquids for use in a lithium-air battery, working under Professor John Owen. He worked under Professor Andrew Hector as a postdoctoral researcher on the supercritical fluid electrodeposition project researching the electrochemical deposition of mesoporous silicas. He now works on the ADEPT project researching the deposition of mesoporous silicas in anodic alumina membranes.

Samantha Soulé
Samantha Soulé
Samantha Soulé, Research Fellow in Chemistry, University of Southampton

Samantha received her Master’s degree in Physical Chemistry of Materials, University of Pau (UPPA), France in 2012. She then undertook a PhD at IPREM, at the University of PAU, exploring the synthesis and characterisation of hybrid Au@SiO2 nanomaterials for applications in nanomedicine. In 2016 she took a post as a postdoctoral research fellow focussing on the surface characterisation of all-solid-state lithium microbatteries. Samantha joined the ADEPT programme in November 2016, with a research focus on synthesis and grafting of mesoporous silica templates.

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