People

Former Members

Name	Email	Job title	Location	Areas of expertise
Dr Razan Aboljadayel		Postdoctoral research fellow	Bragg 3.01	Synthetic antiferromagnetic skyrmions
Jack Adams		PhD Student	Bragg Building 301	Spin currents in Nanostructures
Muaid Algarni		Post Graduate Student		Superconducting Spintronics
Shoug Alghamdi		PhD Student		Amorphous Carbon Based Spintronics
Sultan Alhassan		Post Graduate Student		Superconducting Spintronics
Dr Christopher Allen		Postdoctoral Researcher		Quantum Entanglement in the Solid State. PDRA Dept Materials, Oxford University
Dr Javier Moreno Almeida		PhD Student		Theory of the Early Universe
Nader Alosaimi		PhD Student	Bragg Building 301
Satam Alotibi		Post graduate Student	Bragg Building 301
Khulaif Alshammari		PhD Student		Strain controlled spintronics
Majed Alshammari		PhD Student		OrganicSpintronics
Mohammed Alyami		PhD Student	Bragg Building 301	Spin Currents in Metal /YIG structures
Dr Graham Anderson		PhD Student		Spintronics and Magnetic Tunnelling Junctions
Greg Andrews	pygma@leeds.ac.uk		Bragg 3.01	Magnetic skyrmions
Dr Vincent Baltz		Post Doctoral Researcher		Nanomagnets and Magnetic Point Contacts - now has a permanent position at SpinTec in Grenoble
Chris Barker		Postgraduate Student	Bragg Building 301	Magnetic skyrmions
Luke Bone		Cryogenics Technician		Cryogenics technician
Robert Buda		PhD Student		Epitaxial Graphene
Philip Cale		Technician
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Ioannis Charalampidis		Postgraduate Student	Bragg Building 301	Theory and computational magnetism
Dr David Ciudad		Visiting Post-doctoral Research Fellow		Single Electron Transport in Magnetic Nanocluster Tunnel Junctions
Dr Graham Creeth		EPSRC PhD+ Fellow		Graphene-based Spintronics - now a PDRA at UCL
Emily Darwin		Postgraduate Student	Bragg Building 301
Dr Mark de Vries		Post Doctoral Researcher		Now a lecturer in Chemistry and the University of Edinburgh Magnetic ordering in Fe-Rh alloys
Dr Kari Dempsey		PhD Student		Magnetic Tunnelling Junctions and Nanoclusters
Dr Mark Elkin		Post Doctoral Research Fellow		Quantum Entanglement in the Solid State
Dr Lara San Emeterio		PhD Student		Spintronic Nanostructures
Dr Kévin Franke	K.J.A.Franke@leeds.ac.uk	Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow		electric field control of magnetism, magnetic domain walls and micromagnetic simulations
Dr Mihai Gabureac		Post Doctoral Researcher		S/F Hybrid Spintronics - now a postdoc at Thun in Switzerland.
Mr Brian Gibbs		Cryogen & Vacuum Support Technician
Dr Colin Grant		Post Doctoral researcher		Simulations of retinal defects
Professor Denis Greig	D.Greig@leeds.ac.uk	Research Professor		Amorphous Alloys, Photoemission, Spin glasses, ophthalmology
Joshua Gretton		PhD Student	Bragg Building 301	Exploring Novel Topological Superconducting Materials
Daniel Grout		Masters by Research		Deposition of Epitaxial Heusler Alloys
Dr Sachin Gupta	S.Gupta1@leeds.ac.uk	Post Doctoral Research Fellow		Quantum spin Hall spintronics
Ahasan Habib		Postgraduate Student	Bragg Building 301
Dr Eloi Haltz	E.Haltz@leeds.ac.uk	Post Doctoral Research Fellow		Magnetic dynamics and skyrmions
Dr Mark Hickey		Post Doctoral Researcher		Domain Wall Spintronics - now a Fulbright Fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dr Aidan Hindmarch		Post Doctoral Researcher		Magnetic Nanoclusters, now moved to a PDRA position at the University of Nottingham
Dr Ales Hrabec		Post Doctoral Researcher	Current-Induced Domain Wall motion in Nanowires, Interfacial effects, Artifical Spin Ice
Robbie Hunt		Postgraduate Student	Bragg Building 301
Alexandra Huxtable		Postgraduate Student	Bragg Building 301	Skyrmions in magnetic multilayers
Dr Alex Jenkins		PhD Student		Thin Film Superconductivity and Magnetism
Yanjiang Ji		PhD Student		Ferroelectric/Ferromagnetic Hybrid structures
Dr Risalat Khan	r.a.khan@leeds.ac.uk	Postdoctoral Research Associate		Spin-orbit torques and domain wall dynamics
Dr Mohd Khan		Postodctoral Research Fellow		Organic Spintronics
Dr Jangyong Kim		Postdoctoral Research Fellow		Generation, Imaging and Control of Novel Coherent Electronic States in Artificial Ferromagnetic-Superconducting Hybrid Metamaterials and Devices - Now at Italian Institute of Technology(IIT)
Dr Christian Kinane		PhD Student		Magnetic Scattering from Multilayers and Films - now an instrument scientist at the ISIS Neutron Source, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.
Professor Ian Lawrie		Professor of Theoretical Physics		Theory of Phase Transition and Early Universe
Dr Chantal Le Grant		Post Doctoral Researcher		Magnetic ordering in Fe-Rh alloys
Dr Serban Lepadatu		Post Doctoral Researcher		Current-Driven Domain Wall Motion in Multilayer Nanowires Now at the National Physical Laboratory
Lin Huang	pylh@leeds.ac.uk	PhD Student	Bragg Building 301	MFM Imaging of Skyrmions in magnetic metallic multilayers
Dr Scott Marmion		PhD Student		Spin Seebeck effect
Dr Jamie Massey	J.R.Massey@Leeds.ac.uk	Research Fellow in Nanomagnetism		Spintronics and nanomagnetism
James Middleton		PhD Student		Spin Currents
Dr Andrei Mihai		Visiting Post Doctoral researcher		Nanoscale Spintronics Devices - currently a PDRA in the Solid State Physics Group at Imperial College
Dr Arpita Mitra		PhD Student		SpinIcur ITN Early Stage Researcher
Dr Timothy Moorsom	T.Moorsom@leeds.ac.uk	Experimental Officer		Collaboration development for Sir Henry Royce Institute
Kathryn Moran		Postdoctoral research fellow		Metallic spintronics
Dr Jason P Morgan		EPSRC Doctoral Prize Winner		Nanomagnetism and Artificial Spin Ices. Now a PDRA at the University of Cambridge
Dr Sophie Morley		Post Doctoral Research Fellow		Artifical spin-ice structures
Dr Christopher Morrison		Postdoctoral Research Fellow		Quantum Spin Hall Effect Spintronics
Dr Adam Naylor		Technology development Officer
Dr Matthew Newman		PhD Student		Carbon based Superconducting Devices
Nicolas Peters		PhD Student		Joint student with Instiute of Microwave Photonics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Dr Nick Porter		Postdoctoral Researcher		Spin-torque in epitaxial transition metal silicides - currently training as a Physics teacher
Joshua Read		Summer student		Spin-orbit torques in magnetic multilayers
Dr Susan Riley		PhD Student		Spin Ices on 2D Electron Gases (joint with Electrical & Electronic Engineering)
Poppy Rowe		Work experience placement
Dr Luis Benito Ruiz	L.P.BenitoRuiz@leeds.ac.uk	Marie Curie Research Fellow		Antiferromagnetic straintronics: towards an non-volatile all-voltage controlled memory device.
Dr Nathan Satchell	N.D.Satchell@leeds.ac.uk	Marie Curie Outgoing Global Research Fellow		Superconducting Spintronics
Dr Klaus Seeman		PhD Student		Nanoscale Domain Wall Spintronics
Kowsar Shahbazi		PhD Student		Large spin Hall angle materials for spin Hall torques
Dr Dong Shi		PhD Student		Artificial Spin Ices Experiment and Theory
Jintao Shuai		Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher	Bragg Building 301
Gregory Simon		Masters by Research Student
Dr Priyasmita Sinha		PhD Student		Spin polarisation in transition silicide materials
Dr Charles Spencer		PhD Student		Topological Hall Effect
Sean Stansill		Postgraduate Student	Bragg Building 301	Theory and computational magnetism
Dr Benjamin Steele		PhD Student		Oscillatory Magnetoresistance in Superconducting Nanostructures
Dr Georgios Stefanou	G.K.Stefanou@leeds.ac.uk	Postdoctoral Research Fellow		Pure Spincurrents in nanostructures
Dr Andrew Strudwick		PhD Student		Now A Marie Curie Experienced Research Fellow at BASF, Germany
Dr Satoshi Sugimoto		Marie Curie Research Fellow		Dynamics of chiral spin texture
Dr Anna Suszka		Post Doctoral Researcher		Thin Film Magnetism
Dr Rowan Temple		Postdoctoral Research Fellow		Magnetic order phase transition in B2 ordered iron-rhodium
Efthymia-Ofelia Tsompopoulou		PhD Student		Structural and Magnetic Effects of Self-Ion Irradiation of FeCr Thin Films.
Mr John Turton	phyjt@leeds.ac.uk	Cryogenic and Vacuum Support Technician		Cryogenic and vacuum specialist techician
Dr Matthew Vaughan		PhD Student		Growth of Heavy Half Heusler Alloy thin films
Mr Mike Walker		Experimental Officer		MBE Growth, XPS Analysis, now retired
Alistair Walton		PhD Student	Bragg Building 301	Organic Super-spintronics
Dr Jill Weaver		Post Doctoral Researcher		Magnetoresistive Domain Wall Sensors - Now at Nanometrics
Dr James Webb		PhD Student		PDRA at Lund University, Sweden
Dr Adam Wells		PhD Student		Spin torque and magnetic domain walls
Amy Westerman		PhD Student		Extrinsic spin-orbit scattering in thin films
Dr May Wheeler		Post Doctoral Research Fellow		Now at Cambridge Display Technologies
Amy Whiteside		PhD Student
Dr James Witt		Postdoctoral Research Fellow		Spin Currents for Quantum Information
Dr Katharina Zeissler		Postdoctoral Research Fellow		Room Temperature Magnetic Skyrmions