ADEPT Research Fellows

Ashley Love, Research Fellow in Chemistry, University of Nottingham

Ashley graduated from the University of Nottingham with an MSc in Chemistry in 2012. He received his PhD in 2017 from the University of Nottingham, researching critical phenomena in pores through the use of vibrational spectroscopy. In November 2016 Ashley joined the ADEPT project as a Research Associate, becoming a Research Fellow within the project in June 2017.

 

 

 

Liam McDonnell, Research Fellow in Physics, University of Southampton

Liam graduated with an MPhys in Physics with a Year of Experimental Research in 2015 from the University of Southampton . He then remained at the University to pursue his PhD entitled "Investigating Excitonic States in Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Monolayers and Heterobilayers Using Resonance Raman Spectroscopy". In 2019 he joined the ADEPT program to work on the characterisation of electrodeposited infrared detectors. 

 

Lingcong Meng, Research Fellow in Electrochemistry, University of Southampton

Lingcong graduated from Central South University, China with a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Materials Science in 2010 and 2012, with research focussed on exploiting CVD diamond growth and application in waste water treatment. He received his Ph.D. from Warwick electrochemistry and interface group, the University of Warwick in 2017, focusing on the fundamental electrochemistry of the boron doped diamond electrode. He then worked as a part-time research assistant in the same group investigating electrochemical detection of Arsenic in water before joining the ADEPT project in February 2017. He is currently working on the thermoelectric strand of the ADEPT project. 

 

Yasir Noori, Research Fellow in Nanoelectronics, University of Southampton

Yasir was awarded a Bachelor of Engineering degree from the University of Dundee in 2013. He then moved to the University of Lancaster for his PhD studies in experimental quantum communications. His PhD work led to one patent, multiple high impact journal publications and conference awards. He then spent 1 year as a post-doctoral researcher developing GaAs high energy particle detectors for the ATLAS experiment. In May 2018, Yasir joined the ADEPT project as a research fellow to develop novel phase change memory and infrared detector technologies utilising his expertise in nano-fabrication and e-beam lithography. He is also highly experienced in molecular beam epitaxy, photonic device modelling and characterisation.

 

Simon Reeves, Research Fellow in Electrochemistry, University of Southampton

Simon received his MChem in Chemistry with Materials Chemistry and Industrial Experience in 2014 from the University of Edinburgh. Remaining at the University of Edinburgh, he was awarded his PhD in 2018 entitled: "Development of Electrochemical Sensing in Nuclear Pyroprocessing: A Study of the Cerium-Aluminium Binary System with Macro- and Microelectrodes". In 2018 he joined the ADEPT programme where his research focus is on binary and ternary compounds of p-block elements for infrared detection.

 

 

Sheng Ye, Research Fellow in infrared Detector, University of Southampton

Sheng received his Msc and PhD in Nanoelectronics and Nanotechnology from the University of Southampton. After graduation, he moved to the University of Lancaster as Senior Research Fellow developing a high energy partial detector for CERN. The high signal to noise ratio detector was developed based on the thin film growth technology and special p-i-n structure. In May 2019, Sheng joined the ADEPT project as a research fellow to develop infrared detector technologies utilising his expertise in nano-fabrication and electrical characterisation. Beyond that, he is also developing the SPM (Scanning Probe Microscope) characterisation technique to extract high resolution local information for the deep understanding of device characteristics.

 

Wenjian Zhang, Research Fellow in Chemistry, University of Southampton

Dr Wenjian Zhang was awarded his PhD in 2005 from the University of Cardiff, with a thesis title of ‘Synthesis of small-ring benzannulated triphosphamacrocyles by template methods’. He has been working with Gill Reid at the University of Southampton since 2005, where his research covers main-group inorganic synthesis, with particular focus on halometallates for electrodeposition of p-block binary and ternary compounds.