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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 1^st 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.

Dr Nagaraju Goli

Nagaraju received his Master’s degree (2012) in Chemistry from Acharya Nagarjuna University, Andhra Pradesh, India. He was then awarded Doctoral degree (Ph.D.) from Kyung Hee University, South Korea in 2017, where his investigation was mainly based on the fabrication and working chemistry of electrochemical asymmetric/hybrid supercapacitors. He also worked as Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Kyung Hee University for two years. Currently, he is working as Research Associate in Dr Mattevi Group, Imperial College London. His research focus transmits on the fabrication of emerging two-dimensional (2D) materials and 3D-printed flexible electrodes for high-performance micro-batteries and metal-ion capacitors.

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.

Ms Rachael Quintin-Baxendale

	Rachael was awarded her MEng Mechanical Engineering degree from the University of Exeter, UK in 2020. Her master’s thesis investigated graphene coated textiles for the application of wearable electronics. In October 2020, Rachael joined the Mattevi Group as a PhD student.

Mr Haoyu Bai

Haoyu was awarded his MEng degree from Wuhan University of Technology, China. His master thesis focused on the liquid exfoliation of 2D clay nanosheets and the nanofluidic channel arrays assembled by clay nanosheets. In October 2021, Haoyu was awarded with the CSC-Imperial scholarship and joined the Mattevi group as a Ph.D. student. His research is now focusing on the large-area synthesis of 2D magnetic materials.

Mr Evan Fisher

	Evan was awarded their MEng in materials science and engineering from Imperial College London in 2022. Their Master’s thesis focussed on negative linear compressibility and negative thermal expansion in transition metal-based molecular framework materials. They joined the Mattevi Group as a PhD student in October 2022, researching the 3D printing of flexible batteries for wearable electronics.

Mr Lifu Zhang

Lifu was awarded MSc in Advanced Material Science (Energy Storage) from University College London, where he focused on the design and synthesis of multifunctional strain sensor based on multilayered graphene for wearable electronics.  In January 2023, Lifu joined the Mattevi Group in Imperial College London as a PhD student with research focusing on the phase engineering and application of two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs).

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

Dr Stefano Tagliaferri - Ph.D Graduate - October 2023 - 

Dr Maria Sokolikova - Postdoc - April 2023 - Current position: Research Development Manager, Imperial College London

Dr. Apostolos Panagiotopoulos - Ph.D. Graduate - December 2022

Dr. Mauro Och - Ph.D. Graduate - September 2022

Dr Pawel Palczynski - Ph.D. Graduate - December 2019

Dr Peter Sherrell - Postdoc - August 2018 - Current position: University of Melbourne

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

Dr Joseph Shaw - Ph.D. Graduate - 2014 Co-supervisor Prof. Thomas Anthopoulos (Physics Department, Imperial College)

Dr. Liping Lu - Postdoc - July 2013 - Sept 2014

Dr. Hokwon Kim - Ph.D. Graduate - 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

Dr. Sum Wei Siang - Joint Postdoc

Dr. Jingjing Jia - Joint Postdoc

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

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

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

Mr. K. Park, FYP student Oct 2011 - May 2012

Mr. Toby Davis, FYP student Oct 2010 - May 2011

Ms Giulia Zoe Zemignani - FYP Politecnico di Milano - July 2019

Ms Elisa Burbaum, Erasmus Student - March 2018