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

• 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

• Calina Durbac (University of Birmingham, completed in October 2025; next post: postdoc  at Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology).

• Blaine van Rensburg (University of Birmingham, completed in July 2025, co-supervision; next post: postdoc at University of Bath and University of Aberdeen).

• Upanshu Sharma (Eindhoven University of Technology, completed in 2017, co-supervision; next post: postdoc at École des Ponts ParisTech).

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

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).