The Colavita Group July 2023. Left to right front: Maida, Filippo, Emma, Lua, Dana and Ella; left to right back: Hugo, Marc, Christian, Paula, Kevin and Moh, our collaborator.
The Colavita Group July 2022 in the Rose Garden. Left to right front: Zijian, Lua, Martin, Filippo, Maida and Alican; left to right back: Marc, Christian, Paula and Hugo.
The Colavita Group in March 2017. Left to right front: Dilushan (welcome back!), Carlota, Joana, James, Elena and Adam; left to right back: Khairul, Federico, Paula.
The Colavita Group in March 2015. Left to right: Suoyuan, Adam, Guido, Federico, Khairul, Serban, James, Paula, Thomas, Leticia, Joana and Daniela.
The Colavita Group in July 2013. Left to right: Paraic, Deirdre, Thomas, Federico, Paula, Ronan, Daniela and James.
Collaborators Past and Present
Prof. Kim McKelvey, University of Victoria at Wellington, NZ
Prof. Max Garcia-Melchor, Chemistry TCD
Dr. Niall McEvoy, Chemistry TCD
Prof. Suresh Pillai, Chemistry ATU Sligo
Prof. Valeria Nicolosi, Chemistry TCD
Prof. Eoin Scanlan, Chemistry TCD.
Dr. Susan Quinn, Chemistry UCD.
Prof. Mike Lyons, Chemistry TCD and TEECE.
Dr. Frederic Barriere, University of Rennes, France.
Dr. Mariangela Longhi, Universita di Milano, Italy.
Prof. Sylvia Draper, Chemistry TCD.
Prof. Louise Bradley, Physics TCD.
Prof. Robert Baker, Chemistry TCD.
Prof. James Lunney, Physics TCD.
Dr. Emiliano Fonda, Synchrotron SOLEIL, France.
Prof. Kevin Metz, Chemistry Albion College, Michigan USA.
Dr. Silvia Giordani, Italian Institute of Nanotechnology, Italy.
Former Postdoctoral Fellows
Dr. Hugo Nolan, Postdoctoral 2020-2022
Dr. Federico Zen, Postdoctoral 2021-2022
Dr. Alessandro Iannaci, Postdoctoral 2017-2020
Dr. Carlota Dominguez, Postdoctoral 2015-2017
Dr. Leticia Esteban-Tejeda: Postdoctoral 2015-2017.
Dr. Thomas Duff: Postdoctoral 2013-2017.
Dr. Suoyuan Lian: Postdoctoral 2014-2016.
Dr. Serban Stamatin: Postdoctoral 2014-2016.
Dr. Daniela Angione: Postdoctoral 2013-2016.
Dr. Laura Soldi: Postdoctoral 2009-2011.
Dr. Dilushan Jayasundara: Postdoctoral 2010-2013.
Former Postgraduate Students and Researchers
Dr. Swapnil Ingle, defended in 2022.
Dr. Khairul Hoque, defended in 2019.
Dr. James Behan, defended in 2018.
Dr. Adam Myles, defended in 2018.
Dr. Joana Vasconcelos, defended in 2016.
Dr. Federico Zen, defended in 2016.
Dr. Michelle Browne, defended in December 2016.
Dr. Paul Duffy: PhD student, defended in January 2014.
Dr. Deirdre Murphy: PhD student, defended in December 2013.
Mr. Guido Ciapetti: MSc student, now at Mecoil Diagnosi Meccaniche Srl.
Mr. Zijian Wang: MSc in Energy Science student, Spring-Summer 2022.
Ms. Lua Henderson, Research Assistant 2022.
Mr. Martin Kelly, Research Assistant 2022.
Mr. Ronan Cullen, Research Assistant 2009-2014.
Dr. Paraic Keane: Research Assistant 2013-2014.
Jayce Cheng: Summer 2009, Undergraduate project, now PhD student at Stanford University.
Sarah Duggan: Fall 2009, Undergraduate project, now MSc. student at Essex University.
Gaelle DuFaure: Summer 2010, Undergraduate project.
Camille Auriault: Summer 2011, Undergraduate project, now an intern at the Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique, France.
Charreyron Romain: Summer 2012, Undergraduate project.
Martin Ross: Fall 2012, Undergraduate project.
Jiwen Ding: Summer 2014, Undergraduate project sponsored by IAESTE scheme.
Tobi Arisa: Summer 2015, Undergraduate project.
Éadaoin Whelan: Summer 2016, Undergraduate project sponsored by RSC Nuffield Research Bursary.
Dr. Stefania Marzorati, Spring 2016 - Erasmus PhD exchange student from the University Milan.
Elena Barbetti: Spring 2017, MSc project under student exchange from University of Milan.
Mr. Larry Brazel, Summer 2021, Undergraduate project sponsored by RSC Research Bursary.
Mr Pietro Martinuz, Spring 2021, MSc project under student exchange from University of Milan.
Deirdre receives the Robert Meyer award at Carbon 2013 in Rio de Janeiro.
Stephanie, Deirdre and Federico working in the office. Summer 2013.
The group attends E-MRS 2012 in Strasbourg (May, 2012)
Ronan (Colavita's group) and Lankani (Draper's group) are winners of the Poster Competition at Smart Surfaces (Dublin, March, 2012)
Camille Auriault at the DRHEA Undergraduate Research Conference (DCU, Oct 2011).
Dr. Kevin Metz and Paul Duffy working
with metal/carbon particles (May 2011).