Group Members

We are looking for new PhD students, Postdocs, and Master students to join the team (see openings) !

Simon Cornish

Principal Investigator

s.l.cornish@durham.ac.uk

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Tobias Franzen

Postdoctoral research associate
CsYb lab

tobias.franzen@durham.ac.uk

Adarsh Raghuram

PhD student
Microscope lab

Albert Tao

PhD student
RbCs lab

ORCID

Joe Bloomer

PhD student
CsYb lab

Tom Hepworth

PhD student
Tweezers lab

Francesca Blondell

PhD student
Microscope lab

Chris Cumming

PhD student
RbCs lab

David Lowit

PhD student
Tweezers lab

Jeff Bai

PhD student
CsYb lab

Saif Salim

MRes student
Tweezers lab

Alumni

PDRAs

Jack Segal, CsYb lab, 2018 - 2024 (PhD thesis)

Sarah Bromley, Microscope lab, 2018 - 2023

Lewis McArd, 2018 - 2021

Kali Wilson, CsYb lab, 2018 - 2020

Alexandros Alampounti, Tweezers lab, 2017 - 2019

Rahul Sawant, Tweezers lab, 2017 - 2019

Ana Rakonjac, Tweezers lab, 2014 - 2019

Jacob Blackmore, RbCs lab, 2020 - 2021 (PhD thesis)

PhD students

Luke Fernley, RbCs lab, 2020 - 2024 (PhD thesis)

Alex Matthies, Microscope lab, 2019 - 2023 (PhD thesis)

Andrew Innes, Microscope lab, 2018 - 2023 (PhD thesis)

Stefan Spence, Tweezers lab, 2017 - 2023 (PhD thesis)

Vincent Brooks, Tweezers lab, 2017 - 2023 (PhD thesis)

Stefan Kemp, CsYb lab, 2013 - 2017 (PhD thesis)

Kirsteen Butler, CsYb lab, 2010 - 2014 (PhD thesis)

Daniel McCarron, RbCs lab, 2007 - 2011 (PhD thesis)

Patrick Tierney, RbCs lab, 2005 - 2009 (PhD thesis)

Michael Koppinger, RbCs lab, 2010 - 2014 (PhD thesis)

Peter Molony, RbCs lab, 2012 - 2016 (PhD thesis)

Masters students

Fritz von Gierke, 2023-2024

Archie Baldock, 2022-2023

Ce Li, 2021-2022

Imogen Forbes, 2021-2022

Mitch Walker, 2020-2021

Samuel White, 2020-2021

Oliver Powell, 2019-2020

Summer students

Jakob Heidweiler, 2024

Erkan Nurdun, Istanbul Technical University, 2023

Claus Yang, Imperial College London, 2022

Kevin Roice, Durham University, 2021