Team

We are based at Northumbria University in the beautiful North East of England, and participate in the Northumbria University Photovoltaics group, Energy Futures and the North East Centre for Energy Materials.

Team Atoms

Lucy Whalley - Assistant Professor - HackThePlanet

Prakriti Kayastha - PhD student - Atomistic modelling of disorder and defects in energy materials

Michael Jones - PhD student - Interface Engineering in CZTS thin film solar cells

Ify Nwabuokei - Student intern - Singing Materials: Sonification of first-principles phonon data


Previous team members

William Taylor - Student intern (Northumbria University) - Oswald HPC documentation

Kishore Varadapureddi - Advanced Practice student (Northumbria University) - Computational Screening of spinel compounds for battery applications

Kiran Veeramalla - Advanced Practice student (Northumbria University) - Computational Screening of spinel compounds for battery applications

Tianhao Zhu - BEng project student (Northumbria University) - Community Energy Projects: a feasibility study

Susannah Lea - BEng project student (Imperial College London) - Effective mass of cuprous oxide [co-supervisor]


Opportunities

We are always interested in hearing from potential new members and collaborators - please get in touch.

Any PhD/job opportunities will be listed here, and, for the right candidate, there is also the possibility to apply for external funding (e.g. the Marie Curie IF).

For smaller undergraduate, postgraduate and summer placement projects please see a project list that we maintain here.