People

June 2021 a Garden Party is possible!. Older photos below.

Principal Investigator

Professor Pietro Cicuta
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Postdoctoral Research Associates

Dr Jurij Kotar

Dr Leonardo Mancini - Herschel Smith Research Fellow

Dr Athullya Baby

Dr Viridiana Sosa

PhD and MPhil Students

Kate Webber (started Oct. 2018, BBSRC DTP, co-supervised Julian Rayner)

Emma Jones (started Oct. 2019, co-supervised Julian Rayner )

Erika Causa (started Apr. 2021, ITN PhyMot )

Morten Kals (started Apr. 2021, ITN PhyMot )

Aske Petersen (started Oct. 2021)

Filip Ayazi (started Oct. 2022, Sensors CDT)

Panagiotis Ioannou (started Oct. 2022, Sensors CDT, co-supervised Pietro Lio')

Current visitors

Dr Teresa Tiffert, Dr Virgilio Lew, Ms Rini Ghosh

Previously with us (date of working with us, and destination where known)

Dr Ricardo Fradique 2020-2023 - to IT private sector

Ms Yuyi (Emily) Zhang - RA 2023

Dr Milad Radiom - visitor 2023

Dr Guilherme (Guil) Nettesheim 2018-2022 - to postdoc in OptoElectronics group

Dr Samuel McDermott 2019 - 2022 - to postdoc in DAMTP/Addenbrookes, now Sensors CDT

Mr Boyko Vodenicharski - RA 2022

Dr Viola Introini - ISSF Wellcome Trust Fellow 2020-2022 - to Marie Curie Fellowship EMBO Barcelona

Mia Panlilio (started Oct. 2014) - to postdoc Memphis

Sho Takamori (started Oct. 2015) - to postdoc Tokyo

Cameron Cole (Mphil started Oct. 2019) - to PhD at LMB

Dr Adriana Fontes, Dr Carinna Lima - visitors 2019-2020

Nicola Pellicciotta (PhD started Oct. 2015 - finished Dec 2019) - now post-doc in Rome with Roberto Di Leonardo

Viola Introini (PhD started Jan. 2016 - finished Dec 2019) - now ISSF Wellcome Fellow

Omar Amjad (PhD 2015-2019) - to job in business consulting

Evelyn Hamilton (PhD 2015-2019) - to job in Australia

Dr Cornelius Bausch - to job in engineering consulting

Luigi Feriani (PhD 2014-2018) - to post doc at Imperial College London / MRC

Dr Emma Talbot - to job at Base4

Matteo Cristofalo - visiting PhD student 2017/2018

Weichao Zhai (started Oct. 2013) - cosupervised with Dr Eileen Nugent - to Leeds postdoc

Yen-Chun Lin (started Oct. 2013) - to job at Evonetix

Michal Wlodarski (started Jul. 2014, BBSRC DTP) - cosupervised with Dr Gillian Fraser - to consulting at CamIn

Dr Armando Maestro Martin - Wellcome Trust ISSF with Prof David Owen, CIMR, to Grenoble Neutron Source

Dr Maurizio Chioccioli - to post doc in Yale

Dr Estelle Brendon

Dr Lucia Parolini (formerly PhD student here 2012-2016), to Oxford postodoc

Dr Roberta Liuzzi and Dr Antonio Carciati, visitors 2016.

Dr Joachim Rambeau 2015-16 - to post doc in Paris UPMC

Eugenia Cammarota (PhD 2011-16) - to postdoc at San Raffaele Hospital, Milan

Dr Tim Rudge 2015-2016, to Faculty position Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

Victor Allard (MPhil 2014-15) - to PhD UCL

Avelino Javer (Phd 2010-14) - to postdoc MRC London

Andrew Kennard (MPhil 2013-14) - to Stanford PhD

Dr Eileen Nugent, 2010-13, then College Research Fellow, now Cavendish Early Career Lecturer

Alex Crick (PhD 2010-14 + 6 month post-doc) - then becoming a patent lawyer

Matt Grant (PhD 2009-13) - then becoming an actuary

Nicolas Bruot (PhD 2010-13) - to postdoc in Lyon

Will Fletcher (MPhil 2012-13) - to Stanford PhD

Dr Kanat Dukenbayev (visitor, 2013)

Himantha Cooray (PhD 2008-13) - to postdoc DAMTP

Sarra Achouri (PhD 2009-13)- to postdoc in Cambridge PDN dept.

Elodie Aumaitre (PhD 2008-12) - to real job in industry

Simon Wongsuwarn (PhD 2008-12)

Dr Krystyna Bromek, 2010-11

Aidan Brown (PhD 2007-11) - to Imperial College, London; now tenure-track in Edinburgh.)

Dr Young Zoon Yoon, now at Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, South Korea

Dr Debjani Paul, now Professor at IIT Bombay, India.

Sheel Shah (MPhil 2009-10) - to Caltech/UCLA graduate programme)

Elisabetta Spigone (PhD 2006-09) - to Nokia research labs)

Several Cambridge Part III project students: Toby Ferenczi (2006, then PhD in Imperial College), Sarah Kendall (2006, then PhD in Cavendish), Katherine Shaw (2007, then at Procter and Gamble), James Adams (2006), Matthew Maitland (2006), Ben Harden (2007, then PhD in UEA), Gary Doctors (2007, then PhD in UCL), Daniel Shanahan (2009), Sabine Crevoisier (2010), Imogen Whittam (2010, now PhD in Cambridge), Dean Montgomery (2011), Ben Allum (2012), Peter Saunders (2012), Edward Cunningham (2013), Andrew Wilson (2013), Katie Moulang (2014), Oliver Meacock (2014, from Sys.Bio. Part III, with Dr Rafael Carazo Salas), Josh Pendry (2014), Andreas Kern (2015), Georgia Vann (2015), Rhodri Kendrick (2015), James Richards (2015), Theresa Jakuszeit (MPhil, 2015), Julius Schmidt (2017), Abhishek Ambekar (2017), Neil Clegg (2017), Jordan Osborn (2019), Filip Ayazi (2019), David Liu (2019), Peter Guzdziol (2019), Billie Meadowcroft (2020), Josh Tustanowski (2020), Morten Kals (from MPhil in BioTech 2020), Panawat Wong-klaew (2021), Jaehyeon Kim (2021), George Haskell (2021), Joe Hansell (2021), Soma Turi (2021), Liam Self (2021), Harry McMullan (2022), Jamie Morley (2022), Anna Tarodi (2023), Christopher Hadaway (2024), Ruijia Li (2024), Aya Husseini (2024).

A few Laurea thesis students from Italy: Marco Leoni (in 2007, PhD in Bristol), Roberto Bondesan (2007), Elisa Tamborini (2008, PhD in Montpellier), Marco Grisi (2010), Agostino Romeo (2010, PhD in Parma), Lucia Parolini (2011-2012, now PhD with us), Luigi Feriani (2013, now PhD with us), Federico Fanalista (2014-15, now PhD in Delft), Mariachiara Romboli (2014-15), Chiara Soriani (2016), Margherita Tavasso (2019).

A few stagiaires from France: Sarra Achouri (Univ. Paris, 2007, then PhD student with us), Nicolas Bruot (ENS Cachan, 2009, then PhD student with us), Loic Damet (Univ. Paris, 2010), Romain Lhermerout (ENS Cachan, 2011), Maya Juenet (ESPCI, 2012), Benoit Meijer (ESPCI, 2012), Antonin Gallet (ENS Cachan, 2013), Tommaso Bertoni (UPMC, 2015), Raphaelle Taub (ENS Lyon, 2015), Amelie Chardac (ENS Lyon, 2016), Clara Delahousse (ESPCI, 2022).

Project students from elsewhere: Marte van der Linden (Utrecht, NL, 2013), Carmen Sanchez de Rojas Candela (Toledo, Spain, 2015), Aneek Biswas (IIT Kanpur, India, 2015), Bruno Carlo Borro (Copenhagen, 2016), Benedick Fischer (Tuebingen, 2017), Barbara Falcao (Lisbon, 2019), Edo Vreeker (Amsterdam, 2019), Merlin Zgraggen (Bern, 2023), Jose Foz Romao de Oliveira (Lisbon, 2024), Abbie Davidson (Sensors CDT, 2024) .

June 2020 - towards end of the Spring COVID-19 Lockdown. Left to right: Guilherme Nettesheim, Estelle Brendon, Leonardo Mancini, Cameron Cole, Kate Webber, Boyko Vodenicharski, Morten Kals, Tim Fitzmaurice, Pietro Cicuta, Theresa Jakuszeit. Not showing: Jurij Kotar, Ricardo Fradique, Viola Introini, Samuel McDermott, Mia Panlilio and Sho Takamori. Older photos below in real life!

February 2020. Left to right: Carinna Lima, Estelle Brendon, Leonardo Mancini, Theresa Jakuszeit, Ricardo Fradique, Viola Introini, Tim Fitzmaurice, Kate Webber, Emma Jones, Samuel McDermott, Adriana Fontes, Jurij Kotar, Guilherme Nettesheim, Joshua Tustanowski, Billie Meadowcroft and Pietro Cicuta, We're missing Cameron Cole, Mia Panlilio and Sho Takamori. Older photos below.

February 2019. Left to right: Boyko Vodenicharski, Camille Febvre, Ping Liu, Jurij Kotar, Alasdair Hayden-Wright, Omar Amjad, Adrian Leathers, Guilherme Nettesheim, Michal Walczak, Ryan Brady, Nicola Pellicciotta, Roberta Lanfranco, Viola Introini, Evelyn Hamilton, Roger Rubio Sanchez, Pietro Cicuta, Lorenzo Di Michele, Will Kaufhold. ** These are the combined Pietro and Lorenzo groups, and we're missing Mia Panlilio, Sho Takamori, Cornelius Bausch. Older photos below.

October 2017. Left to right: William Kaufhold*, Maurizio Chioccioli, Jurij Kotar, Lorenzo Di Michele*, Evelyn Hamilton, Nicola Pellicciotta, Yen Chun Lin, Emma Talbot, Viola Introini, Cornelius Bausch, Weichao Zhai, Ryan Brady*, Mia Panlilio, Luigi Feriani, Omar Amjad, Simone Di Leo, Pietro Cicuta. We missed out on Michal Wlodarski, Sho Takamori, Estelle Brendon. (*) Lorenzo is an independent investigator, Ryan and William are his PhD students. Older photos below.

April 2016. Left to right: Nicola Pellicciotta, Jurij Kotar, Pietro Cicuta, Eugenia Cammarota, Luigi Feriani, Bruno Carlo Borro, Omar Amjad, Ryan Brady*, Evelyn Hamilton, Lorenzo Di Michele*, Yen Chun Lin, Maurizio Chioccioli, Lucia Parolini, Emma Talbot, Chiara Soriani, Armando Maestro, Weichao Zhai, Michal Wlodarski, Viola Introini, Sho Takamori, Mia Panlilio, Joachim Rambeau, Estelle Brendon. We missed out on Tim Rudge. (*) Lorenzo is an independent investigator, Ryan is his PhD student. Scroll below for older photos.

Feb 2015. Left to right: Jurij Kotar, Maurizio Chioccioli, Yen Chun Lin, Eugenia Cammarota, Michal Wlodarski, Luigi Feriani, Lucia Parolini, Victor Allard, Mia Panlilio, Weichao Zhai, Emma Talbot, Theresa Jakuszeit, Armando Maestro, Luigi Feriani, Mariachiara Romboli, Carmen Sanchez de Rojas Candela, Pietro Cicuta. Scroll below for older photos.

May 2013. Left to right: Sarra Achouri, Kanat Dukenbayev, Pietro Cicuta, Eugenia Cammarota, Luigi Feriani, Marte van der Linden, Alex Crick, Lucia Parolini, Matt Grant, Nicolas Bruot, Avelino Javer, Antonin Gallet, Will Fletcher. (We're missing Eileen Nugent and Jurij Kotar here). Scroll below for older photos.

October 2011. Left to right: Lucia Parolini, Avelino Javer, Himantha Cooray, Nicolas Bruot, Simon Wongswarn, Elodie Aumaitre, Matt Grant, Alex Crick, Sarra Achouri, Eileen Nugent, Jurij Kotar, Pietro Cicuta. (We're missing Krystyna Bromek and Eugenia Cammarota here). Scroll below for older photos.

November 2010. Left to right: Himantha Cooray, Jurij Kotar, Avelino Javer, Matt Grant, Simon Wongswarn, Alex Crick, Elodie Aumaitre, Nicolas Bruot, Eileen Nugent, Aidan Brown, Debjani Paul, Krystyna Bromek, Young Zoon Yoon, Pietro Cicuta. (We're missing Sarra Achouri here).

Summer 2009. Left to right: Aidan Brown, Elodie Aumaitre, Simon Wongswarn, Sarra Achouri, Nicolas Bruot, Elisabetta Spigone, Young Zoon Yoon, Jurij Kotar, Himantha Cooray, Pietro Cicuta.