Current members

Postdocs

• Nataliya Balabanova (postdoc, joint mentorning with T. A. Han (Teesside University), funded by our EPSRC Standard Grant, 07/2024-)

• Zhao Song (postdoc, joint mentorning with T. A. Han (Teesside University), funded by our EPSRC Standard Grant, 05/2024-)

PhD students

• Calina Durbac (09/2021-)

• Wenxuan Tao (joint supervision,  since 09/2023)

• Chuyi Chen  (joint supervision, since 09/2023)

• Ethan J Baker (since 09/2024)

• Ibrahim Adamu (since 09/2025)

Former  Group Members

Postdocs

• Nataliya Balabanova (postdoc, funded by my EPSRC New Investigator Award , 06/2023-06/2024)

• Maciej Buze (postdoc, funded by my EPSRC New Investigator Award, 02/2022-01/2023, next position: research fellow at Heriot-Watt University)

PhD students

• Blaine van Rensburg (University of Birmingham, completed in 2025, co-supervision).

• Daniel Adams (University of Edinburgh, 2022). Daniel was not officially my PhD student but he has worked regularly  and published two articles with me during his PhD. 

• Upanshu Sharma (Eindhoven University of Technology, completed in 2017, co-supervision).

MSc/MSci students

• Subhaan Tahir (MSc, 2024-2025)

• Tanmay Bhonsale (MSc, 2024-2025)

• Yihan Zhang (MSc, 2024-2025)

• Changhao Chen (MSc, 2024-2025)

• Wei Wang (MSc, 2024-2025)

• Wu Mao (MSc, 2024-2025)

• Qi Liu (MSc, 2024-2025)

• Jahed Ullah (MSci, 2023/2024, co-supervision)

• Zeren Shi (MSc, 2022/2023)

• Yuchen Luo (MSc, 2022/2023)

• Ziren Li (MSc, 2022/2023)

• Kehan Huang (MSc, 2022/2023)

• Yu Luan (MSc, 2022/2023)

• Ngoc Trung Thach (MSc, 2022/2023)

• Haifan Chen (MSc student, 2021/2022)

• Tatsushi Hayaki (MSc student, 2021/2022)

• Xinyue Shi (MSc student, 2021/2022)

• Yan Wang  (MSc student, 2021/2022)

• Liu Aonan (MSc student, Postgraduate Taught Knowledge Exchange Pathway, 2021/2022)

• Xiao Wu (MSc student, Postgraduate Taught Knowledge Exchange Pathway, 2021/2022)

• Amandeep Sandhu (MSci student, 2021/2022) 

• James Bainbridge (MSci,  University of Birmingham, 2021).

• Michael Mullen (MSci, University of Birmingham, 2021).

• Samuel Bonsor (MSci, University of Birmingham,  2019; co-supervison).

Summer research students

• Oluwaseun Olushola (2021/2022, summer research project, funded by LMS Undergraduate Research Bursary and University of Birmingham )

• Churou Deng (2021/2022, summer research project, funded by University of Birmingham)

• Luoer Chen (2021/2022, summer research project, funded by University of Birmingham)

• Sophie Reid ( 2022/2023, summer research project, funded by University of Birmingham)

• Ningfeng Luo (2022/2023, summer research project, funded by University of Birmingham)

• Wenlei Zheng (2022/2023, summer research project, funded by University of Birmingham)

Guests

• 07/2025, Zihui He (Bielefeld University)

• 06/2024, Julian Tugaut (Jean Monnet University)

• 06/2024, Alexandra Holzinger (University of Oxford)

• 06/2024, Federico Cornalba (University of Bath)

• 06/2024, Amit Einav (Durham University)

• 06/2022 Johannes Zimmer (TU Munich, one week)

• 09/2022 Daniel Adams (University of Edinburgh, 3 days)

• 12/202 2 Rafael Bailo (University of Oxford, 3 days)

• 03/2023 Khanh Duy Trinh (Waseda University , 2 weeks)

• 04/2023 Amit Einav (Durham University, 3 days).