Current research team

Group Leader  

Prof Cinzia Casiraghi

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Professor in Nanoscience
Email:  cinzia.casiraghiATmanchester.ac.uk
Office: 1.061, School of Chemistry
Tel:   +44-(0)161-275-13-27       
Google i-Scholar: http://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=ptBsc5sAAAAJ&hl=en 
Prof Cinzia Casiraghi received her BSc and MSc in Nuclear Engineering from Politecnico di Milano (Italy) and her PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cambridge (UK) in 2006. In 2005 she was awarded with an Ernest Oppenheimer Early Career Research Fellowship, followed by the Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship in 2007 and the prestigious Sofja Kovalevskaja Award, won in 2008. This Prize is given to young, cutting-edge researchers, providing them with risk capital to pursue innovative projects and establish their own lab at a very early stage in their careers. This allowed her to become Junior Group Leader at the Physics Department of the Free University Berlin (Germany). In 2010 she joined the School of Chemistry, at the University of Manchester (UK). 

- Co-organizer of the symposium NM04, MRS 2017
- 2016 Leverhulme Prize in Engineering
​- Co-organizer of the symposium Z, e-MRS 2016
- Scientific Chair of the GRAPHENE WEEK 2015
- Member of the EPSRC Early Career Forum in Manufacturing Research
- 2014 Marlow Award and Medal by The Royal Society of Chemistry. 
- Member of the Advisory Committee of Graphene week 2014​ and 2016
- Editorial board member of Nature Scientific Reports
- Editorial board member of npj 2D Materials and Applications

Post-Docs 

Dr Khaled Parvez

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Email: khaled.parvezATmanchester.ac.uk
Office: Chemistry building, 1.075
Funded by EPSRC

Dr Yuyoung Shin

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Email:  yuyoung.shinATpostgrad.manchester.ac.uk
Office: Chemistry building, 1.075
Funded by EPSRC

Dr Junaid Ali

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Email:  @manchester.ac.uk
Office: Chemistry building, 1.075
Funded by Graphene Flagship

Dr Rajeshkumar Mohanraman

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Email:  @manchester.ac.uk
Office: Chemistry building, 1.075
Funded by Leverhulme Trust

Dr Subimal Majee

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       Email:  @manchester.ac.uk
       Office: Chemistry building, 1.075
       Funded by the ERC project POP

PhD students

Daniele Rizzo
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​Email: daniele.rizzo-2ATpostgrad.manchester.ac.uk
Office: 1.075, Chemistry building
DTA Scholarship
Supervisor: Cinzia Casiraghi
Co-Supervisors: Kostya Novoselov, Louise Natrajan

Vaiva Nagytė

​Oka Arjasa
Email: vaiva.nagyteATpostgrad.manchester.ac.uk
Office: 1.075, Chemistry building
CDT scholarship, funded by NPL
Supervisor: Cinzia Casiraghi
Co-Supervisors: Antonios Oikonomou, Andrew Pollard (NPL)
Email: oka.arjasaATpostgrad.manchester.ac.uk
Office: PSI
Self funded
Supervisor: Alistair Fielding
Co-Supervisor: Cinzia Casiraghi

Robyn Worsley
Tong Jincheng
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Email: robyn.worsleyATpostgrad.manchester.ac.uk
Office: 1.075, Chemistry building
CDT/Industry funded
Supervisor: Cinzia Casiraghi
Liam Isherwood
Email: liam.isherwoodATpostgrad.manchester.ac.uk
Office: 1.075, Chemistry building/Dalton Cumbrian Facility
DTA funded
Supervisor: Alex Baidak; Co-Supervisor: Cinzia Casiraghi
Marco Zarattini
Email: ATpostgrad.manchester.ac.uk
Office: 1.075, Chemistry building
CDT/Industry funded
Supervisor: Cinzia Casiraghi
Email: ATpostgrad.manchester.ac.uk
Office: 1.075, Chemistry building
Dean scholarship
Supervisor: Cinzia Casiraghi; Co-Supervisor: Mike Turner

Matthew Boyes

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​Email: ATpostgrad.manchester.ac.uk
Office: 1.075, Chemistry building
ERC funded
Supervisor: Cinzia Casiraghi; Co-Supervisor: Thomas Vetter
Adriana Alieva
Email: ATpostgrad.manchester.ac.uk
Office: 1.075, Chemistry building
ERC funded
Supervisor: Cinzia Casiraghi; Co-Supervisor: Thomas Vetter, Andrew Horn

Previous members

- Fatemeh Jafarzadeh, PhD student 2015-2019, graduated
- Gennaro Picardi, Post-Doc 2018-2019
- Chaochao Dun, Post-Doc 2017-2018
- Daryl McManus, PhD student 2013-2017, graduated
- Chloe Holroyd, PhD student 2012-2016, graduated
- Seokkyun Sok, Post-doc 2014-2016
- Samantha Magee, research associate, 2014-2015
- Kaige Zhou, Newton Fellow (The Royal Society) 2012-2014
- Caitlin Rice, Post-doc 2013-2014
- Fred Withers, Post-doc 2013
- Roberto Sorrentino, Research Assistant, 2014
- Weifeng Zheng, Research assistant 2013
- Huafeng Yang, PhD student 2010-2013, graduated
- Thanasis Georgiou, DTC PhD student 2010-2013, graduated
- Axel Eckmann, PhD student 2010-2013, graduated
- Patrick May, Post-doc 2012
- Sukhraaj Johal, MPhil student 2012

Visitors

- Giovanni Farulla, Politecnico di Milano, Italy (2018), in collaboration with Prof Casari
- Francesca Scuratti, ITT Milan, Italy (2018)
- Daniele Pelitti, Universita' di Pisa, Italy (2016), in collaboration with Prof Fiori
- Andrea Dal Santo, Politecnico di Milano, Italy (2016), in collaboration with Prof Libassi
- Maria Mukhina, ITMO University, St. Petersburg, Russia (2015)
- Sofia Perez, University of Sheffield (2015-2016)
- Roberto Sorrentino, University of Milan-Bicocca, Master student 2013-2014
- Matteo Lorenzoni, ITT Genova, Italy (2013)

MChem, MSc and Summer students 

- Zhicun Zhou, MSc student 2019
- Ci Lin, Mchem student 2019
- Damian Wilary,  Summer Internship 2018 and Mchem student 2019
- Xiatian Fan, MSc (R) student 2018
- Mark Smith, Mchem student 2018
- Yi-Wen (Jessie) Chen, MSc (T) student, 2017
- Robin Davies, Mchem student 2017
- Christos Toulios, Summer Internship 2016 
​- Darryl Messer, Mchem student 2016
- Emma Green, Mchem student 2016
-  Wei Chen, MSc student 2015
- Jonathan Phan, Mchem Student 2015
- James Garland, Mchem Student 2015
- Manuel Vázquez Sulleiro, Summer Internship 2014
- Wala Algozeeb, MSc student 2014
- Sean Wallace, Mchem Student 2014
- Joao Figuera Nunes, Mchem Student 2014
- Adam Lang, Mchem Student 2013
- Dipesh Kataria, Mchem student 2013
- Tiandi Yang, MSc student, 2012
- Fernando Agustín Iñiguez Rábago, Departamento de Física y Matemáticas, Universidad Iberoamericana (Mexico)- Winter Internship 2012
- Graham Kenyon, School of Chemistry, University of Manchester (UK)- Summer Internship 2011