People
People
Dr Cecilia Mattevi
Dr Cecilia Mattevi
Cecilia Mattevi is a Royal Society University Research Fellow in the Department of Materials at Imperial College London since October 1, 2012. Her research interests centre on science and engineering of novel 2D atomically thin semiconducting materials to enable applications in optoelectronics and energy storage. Mattevi’s research group focuses on the synthesis of these materials, developing tunability of their characteristics, and on the fabrication of devices based on planar structures and on highly porous 3D hierarchical structures where a diverse range of assembly methods is employed.
Cecilia’s current funding supports: science and engineering of 2D semiconducting materials (EPSRC 1st grant, EPSRC-Royal Society fellowship engagement, The Royal Society University Research Fellowship), the development of methods for large scale synthesis of graphene for applications in different technology areas from energy storage to polymer/ceramic composite materials (EPSRC-Graphene Engineering), engineering large scale implementation of graphene-composite (Petronas), and energy applications of graphene derivatives (EU-Graphene Flagship).
Prior to this appointment Cecilia, gained her PhD in Materials Science in 2008 undertaking her doctoral research at the European Synchrotron Facility Elettra, Trieste, IT. Cecilia then joined the group of Prof. Manish Chhowalla in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at Rutgers University, NJ, USA as a postdoctoral associate where she worked on chemically derived graphene for large area optoelectronic applications. In 2010, Cecilia joined Imperial as Junior Research Fellow.
Postdoctoral Researchers
Dr Maria Sokolikova
In 2013 Maria graduated from Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia with Master's degree in Chemistry. During the years spent in MSU, she was involved in the investigation of cadmium chalcogenide nanoparticles of various size, shape and composition grown by colloidal method.
PhD Students
Mr Gang Cheng
Gang completed his MEng degree in the Department of Materials at Imperial College London. His research focuses on heterostructure of transition metal dichalcogenides and their optoelectronic properties.
In September 2018, he was awarded the CSC Scholarship and joined the Mattevi group as a Ph.D. candidate. His project mainly focuses on Semiconducting 2D materials: synthesis and electronic devices.
Mr Apostolos Panagiotopoulos
Apostolos was awarded his Bachelor in Materials Science from University of Patras, Greece. He did his undergrad thesis in amperometric sensors, under the supervision of former director of Molecular Vision (now Abingdon Health), Dr. Emmanuel Topoglidis. He initiated a collaboration with ICL, in fabricating low-cost mesoporous thin films for rapid, quantitative pollutant recognition in aqueous solutions, where he continued his research under the supervision of Bio-Nano Consulting’s Director Prof. Tony Cass.
He has now shifted his attention on the promising field of additive manufacturing in developing mass producible/high-throughput 3D printable devices for an abundance of applications, and joined the Mattevi Research group to begin his Ph.D working on Mesoscale design of multifunctional 3D networks of 2D materials.
Mr Mauro Och
Mauro holds a MEng (Laurea Magistrale) in Process and Materials Engineering from University of Trieste, Italy. During his study, he spent a semester at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), acquiring specific knowledge in the nanotechnology field and working in the Anja Boisen’s Group, and another semester in the Eychmüller Group at TU Dresden in Germany, completing his thesis titled “Cation Exchange on Cu2-xSe Nanocrystals”.
In March 2018, Mauro became part of the Mattevi’s Group and he is now currently working on Semiconducting 2D materials: synthesis and electronic devices.
Mr Stefano Tagliaferri
Stefano graduated in 2019 from University of Naples Federico II (Italy), where he studied Materials Engineering. His master's thesis centred on the additive manufacturing of 2D materials for the production of miniaturized supercapacitors.
In October 2019 he joined the Mattevi Group for a PhD project on the 3D printing of innovative energy storage devices with miniaturized footprint area.
Joint Phd Students
Mr. Tom Siday, PhD student CDT Advanced Materials Characterization , Supervisors: Dr. Oleg Mitrofanov (Electrical Engineering UCL) and Dr. C. Mattevi
Ms. Farah Aba, PhD student Supervisors: Prof. Kang Li (Chemical Engineering Department, Imperial College) and Dr. C. Mattevi
Mr. Jeng Chong, PhD student Supervisors: Prof. Kang Li (Chemical Engineering Department, Imperial College) and Dr. C. Mattevi
Mr. Alan Leong , PhD student, Supervisors: Prof. Eduardo Saiz and Dr. C. Mattevi
Past Group Members
Past Group Members
Dr. Sum Wei Siang - Joint Postdoc
Dr. Jingjing Jia - Joint Postdoc
Dr Pawel Palczynski - Ph.D. Graduate - September 2019
Ms Giulia Zoe Zemignani - FYP Politecnico di Milano - July 2019
Dr Chiara Grotta - Ph.D. Graduate - March 2018 - Current Position: Maserati
Dr Francesco Reale - Ph.D. Graduate - March 2018 - Current Position: Oxford Instruments
Dr Kanudha Sharda - Postdoc - Current Position - Assisstant Editor, Nature Communications
Ms Elisa Burbaum, Erasmus Student - March 2018
Mr Nikesh Patel, FYP Student - March 2018
Mr Jeremy Tan, FYP Student - March 2018
Ms Annemieke Janssen, FYP Student - Sept 2017
Mr Hao Wen, FYP student - May 2017
Mr. Julian Bachinger, FYP student - May 2017
Mr. Jean Vergnet, FYP student June - Sept 2016
Mr. Zejun Zheng, FYP student June - Sept 2016
Ms. Weijie Wu, FYP student June - Sept 2016
Ms. Mengnan Cao, FYP student June - Sept 2016
Ms. Nik Sharifulden, FYP student June - Sept 2016
Mr. Kevin Legrand, FYP student Mar - Aug 2016
Mr. Rayan San Juan, UROP Student (University of Grenoble) May - Aug 2016
Mr. Jacopo Ranalli, Visiting Student (Politecnico di Milano) Nov 2015 - July 2016
Ms. Hamizah Mohd Nor, FYP student June - Sept 2015
Ms. Rhanda Tajdeen, FYP student June - Sept 2015
Mr. Feng Pan, FYP student June - Sept 2015
Ms. Aleksandra Krajewska, Internship student (University of Edinburgh) July - Sept 2015
Ms. Yi Qiu, Internship student (Imperial College London) Aug - Sept 2015
Ms. Xiaoxi Zhu, Internship student (Imperial College London) Aug - Sept 2015
Ms. Sun Li (Nicole), Internship student (Tsinghua University, CN) July - Aug 2015
Mr. Jerome Nicolas, UROP (INSA Rennes Engineering School, FR) June - Aug 2015
Ms. Juliette Cardoletti, UROP (Functionalized Advanced Materials Department, Grenoble University, FR) May - Aug 2015
Ms. Emilia Donata, Erasmus student (Univerista’ di Padova, IT) June - July 2015
Ms. Marie Delaflotte, UROP (engineering superior school of Rennes) June - July 2014
Ms. Qian Li, FYP student June - Sept 2014
Dr. Liping Lu, Postdoc July 2013 - Sept 2014
Mr. Giovanni Pierin, Erasmus student (Univerista’di Padova, IT) Feb - July 2014
Mr. Luca Iuzzolino, FYP student during Oct 2013 - May 2014
Mr. Szymon Bartus, UROP Aug - Sept 2013
Mr. Cong Lu, FYP student during Oct 2013 - May 2014
Dr Joseph Shaw, PhD 2014 Supervisors: Prof. Thomas Anthopoulos (Physics Department, Imperial College) and Dr. C.Mattevi.
Mr. Ezra Feilden-Irving, FYP student May 2013 - Sept 2013
Ms. Hélène de Maleprade, FYP student May 2013 - Sept 2013
Ms. Celeste van den Bosch, FYP student Oct 2012 - May 2013
Mr. Amirul Haji Amir Abas, FYP student Oct 2012 - May 2013
Dr. Hokwon Kim, May 2013 "A study of the nucleation and growth mechanism of graphene on copper"
Supervisors: Dr.Cecilia Mattevi, Prof. Manish Chhowalla, Prof. Eduardo Saiz now Postdoctoral Associate at EPFL
Mr. K. Park, FYP student Oct 2011 - May 2012
Mr. Toby Davis, FYP student Oct 2010 - May 2011