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Robert  completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge (2012-2014). He was a postdoc at MIT (2015-2016) then an independent Research Fellow at Magdalene College (2016-2019) and Downing College (2019-2020) in Cambridge.  He was awarded the Young Engineer of the Year prize by the RAEng (2018).  More

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Daniel completed his PhD at Imperial College London in the Department of Materials and London Centre for Nanotechnology, with research focusing on the plasmonic enhancement effects of metallic nanostructures for fluorescence imaging (2012-2017). He then joined the Plasmon Nanotechnologies group at the Italian Institute of Technology as a postdoc (2018-2021), researching sensing materials and plasmonic nanostructures for biosensing applications. He has now returned to the Materials Department at Imperial as a PDRA to develop nanostructured surfaces for packaging applications. 

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Sachin completed his Ph.D. at SPPU (2017). He was postdoc at INST (2018) and Cardiff University (2019-2021). He is a PDRA in Materials at Imperial and his supervisor is Dr. Hoye. Currently, he is working on developing ABZ2 materials. His work involves material design, photophysics, and prototype device fabrication.

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Yuchen  is a PhD student (202 1 -) in Materials at Imperial and  his  primary supervisor is Dr. Hoye.  He is working on developing solution-processed CuSbSe ₂ thin films and investigating its defect tolerance and photovoltaic performance, as well as developing the growth of indium zinc oxide TCOs.

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Tahmida is a PhD student (2016-) in Materials at Cambridge. Her primary supervisor is Prof. Judith Driscoll. Tahmida is working on developing layered materials for photovoltaics. She is also working with PragmatIC Printing LLC on  p- type TFTs for CMOS. She has a scholarship from the Aziz Foundation.

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Yi-Teng is a PhD student (2019-) in Physics at Cambridge. His primary supervisor is Dr. Akshay Rao. He is working on developing ternary bismuth chalcogenides for photovoltaics, with particular focus on their defect tolerance. He is funded by a government scholarship from Taiwan.

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Ivy is a PhD student (2020-) in Materials at Imperial, and Dr. Hoye is her primary supervisor. She is working on lead-free vacancy-ordered double and triple perovskites for indoor light harvesting, as well as understanding interfacial losses between AP-CVD oxides grown over metal-halide perovskite absorbers.

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Jason is a PhD student in Physics at Cambridge (2019-). His primary supervisor is Dr. Akshay Rao. He is working on nanostructured perovskites for lighting, as well as understanding the role of alkylammonium cation rotation on defect tolerance in lead-halide perovskites.

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Kaiwen is a PhD student (2018-) in Chemical Engineering at Cambridge. His primary supervisor is Dr. Laura Torrente and is also co-supervised by Dr. Sam Stranks. He is working on developing the synthesis of core-shell perovskite nanocrystals by flow reactor synthesis.

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Yiru is a PhD student (2019-) in Materials at Cambridge. Her primary supervisor is Prof. Manish Chhowalla. Her project focuses on understanding and controlling defects in two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides, particularly the role of cation orbital overlap on defect tolerance.

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Disha is an MEng Materials with Nuclear Engineering student at Imperial. She is working on developing carbon monoxide gas sensors using physical vapour deposition.