the group @ MPIE & Imperial

Deputy group leaders

Dr Xuyang (Rhett) Zhou (AvH)

Confined phases in nanocrystalline alloys

Dr Aparna Saksena

Superalloys and  other amusements

Postdoctoral researchers

Dr Renelle Dubosq (NSERC Fellow / Leibniz)

Atom probe analysis of geomaterials

Dr Xinren Chen 

Correlative TEM/APT analysis of magnetic materials

Dr Yue Li (AvH)

Machine-Learning for atom probe & field-ion microscopy

Dr Mahander Singh

Battery materials by atom probe

Dr Shyam Katnagallu  - jointly with Christoph Freysoldt

Theory of field-ion imaging

Dr Shuo Zhang

Developing cryo-atom probe tomography for biological materials

Dr Raymond Nutor (AvH)

designing sustainable Cu and Al alloys

Dr Poonam Yadav (AvH)

cryo-atom probe tomography of battery materials

Dr Tim Schwarz 

cryo-APT of early stage metal degradation

Dr Navyanth Kusampudi

Machine-learning-based data processing techniques for APT

Alaukik Saxena

Machine-learning-based data processing techniques for APT

PhD Students @ MPIE

Lucie Bierbrodt - joint with Jazmin Duarte

Nanoscale study of the influence of hydrogen on the deformation behaviour of metallic materials

Nikita Polin (SURMAT / Leibniz)

Atomic-structure-function property of high-performance magnetic materials

Leonardo Aota

cryo-APT analysis of battery materials 

Eric Woods

Facilitating cryo-APT analysis of water-based solutions

Mathias Krämer

APT analysis of energy materials

Ezgi Hatipoğlu (SUSMET)

Developing active nanoporous metals

Selase Torkornoo

Influence of segregation in biocorrosion

PhD Students @ Imperial

Siobhan Kingley (CDT Nuclear, co-advising with M. Conroy)

Nanoscale analysis of functional glasses

Geri Topore (CDT Characterisation, Cameca, co-advising with M. Conroy)

Correlative techniques and data processing for functional materials

Lukas Worch (CDT Characterisation, co-advising with M. Conroy & V. Nicolosi)

Correlative cryo-TEM/APT for battery materials

Ramin Jannat (Faraday Institution, co-advising with Prof. Mary Ryan)

understanding failure of battery materials

Research officer @ Imperial

Dr James Owen Douglas - link

Atom probe tomography

Technicians

Uwe Tezins

Atom probe tomography

Andreas Sturm

SEM/FIB

Christian Broß (half-time)

Metallography and SEM/FIB

Former Alexander von Humboldt fellows

Dr Ting Luo (AvH) now Assistant Professor at Xi'An

Dr Stoichko Antonov (AvH Fellow) now at NETL & Oregon State University

Dr Surendra Kumar Makineni (AvH Fellow) now Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Science

Dr Lola Lilensten (AVH Fellow) now CNRS scientist at Chimie Paris

Dr Andrew Breen (AvH Fellow) now postdoc at The University of Sydney

Dr Tong Li (former AvH Fellow) now W3 Professor at Ruhr Universität Bochum

Former MSc, Doctoral or Postdoctoral scientists

Dr Ingrid McCarroll  now at Roland Berger

Dr Qing Tan now at Beihang University

Dr Ziyuan Rao now Project leader at MPIE

Dr. Felipe Ferraz Morgado de Oliveira now postdoc at UDE

Dr Huan Zhao now at Xi'An Jiaotong University

Dr. Marti Lopez now  at Thyssen, Duisburg

Jiyu Jiang  now PhD student at the University of Sydney

Dr Poulami Chakraborty now  postdoctoral scientist Basque Centre for Applied Mathematics

Dr Se-Ho Kim now Assist. Prof. at Korea University

Dr Heena Kanchandani now postdoctoral scientist at NTNU

Dr Ayman El Zoka  now Research Fellow at Imperial College London

Dr Leonie Gomell now  at Hella, Lippstadt

Dr Lakshmi Mantha now at Zeiss

Dr Leigh T. Stephenson now at The University of Sydney

Dr Alisson Kwiatkowski da Silva now at Thermocalc

Dr Chang Liu  now at Xi'An Jiaotong University

Dr Ge Wu  now at Xi'An Jiaotong University

Dr Lisa Belkacemi now Leibniz-Institut IWT, Bremen

Dr Dhanalakshmi Palanisamy  now at IISc Bangalore

Dr Kevin Schweinar now at Stat Peel AG

Dr Solene Rouland   now assist. Prof. at the University of Rouen

Leo Lahn now doctoral student at HZB

Dr. Ye Wei now postdoctoral scientist at Peking University

Dr Markus Kühbach now postdoctoral scientist at The Fritz Haber Institute

Marcel Glienke now IT consultant

Dr Philipp Kürnsteiner  now postdoctoral scientist at Linz Univiersity

Dr Paraskevas Kontis now  Assoc. Prof. at NTNU. 

Dr Junyang (Hippo) He now Assoc. Prof. at Central South University

Dr Shyam Swaroop Katnagallu now postdoctoral scientist at MPIE

Dr Torsten Schwarz  now at Zeiss

Dr Yanhong Chang   now Assistant Professor at The Institute of Material, China Academy of Engineering Physics

Dr Zirong Peng now at Zeiss

Dr Yiqiang (Kelvin) Chen now at Thermofischer

Dr Isabelle Mouton now at CEA-Saclay, in the SRMA

Dr Ann Kathrin Rusitzka  

Dr Agnieszka Szczepaniak now at Ametek GmbH

Dr Mengji Yao 

Dr Mathias Köhler 

Former visitors

Simon J. Tsianikas visiting from the University of Adelaide working on deformed structures in HEAs

Dr Tyler Blum visiting from John Valley's group at UW-Madison working on clusters in Zircons

Shih-Che (Chester) Chen visiting from Homer Yen's group at National Taiwan University

Renelle Dubosq visiting from David Schneider's group at U Ottawa working on deformed natural pyrite on a MITACS visiting scholarship

Kooknoh Yoon visiting from E.S. Park research group at SNU working on HEA on ERC-Korea exchange program

Guan-Ju (Grace) Cheng visiting from Homer Yen's group at National Taiwan University on a DAAD scholarship

Hyeji Im visiting from Pyuck-Pa Choi's group at KAIST working on CoTi alloys

Hosun Jun visiting from Pyuck-Pa Choi's group at KAIST working on HEA

Sami Meddeb from PHELMA in Grenoble  working on clustering in Al-alloys

Antoine Sylvander from PHELMA in Grenoble working on oxidation of Fe-Si alloys

Ian Harding from Sharvan Kumar's group at Brown University working on C partitioning in steel 

Caleb Massey visiting from UT Knoxville / ORNL visited us for 4 weeks, now staff scientist at ORNL

Chester Chen visiting from Homer Yen's group at National Taiwan University on a DAAD scholarship

Lucas Ravix from PHELMA in Grenoble for undergrad internship

Jean Balmon from Ecole des Mines de St-Etienne for M.Sc. internship

Students supervised in previous jobs

Dr Rob Aughterson at ANSTO 

Dr Vicente Araullo-Peters now at EMPA

Dr Sichao Du now at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

Dr Michael Müller now at Hoffmann Eitle

+ 5 Master students (2 Sydney, 2 McMaster, 1 MPIE)

3 undergraduates from the Talented Student Program (Sydney), one studies for a PhD at Cambridge

2 undergraduates (Rouen) now CNRS research engineers (GPM, Rouen)