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The Group

Prof Phil King

Prof Phil King

Group Leader

Professor of Physics
Royal Society Research Fellow 
Office: 207A
E-mail: philip.king@st-andrews.ac.uk

CV & Further Information

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Sebastian Buchberger

PhD Student

joint with H. Zhang group, MPI-CPFS

Office: 255

E-mail: sb423@st-andrews.ac.uk

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Daniel Halliday

PhD Student

joint w/ P. Wahl, H. Hussain & C. Nicklin groups

Office: 132C

E-mail: drh7@st-andrews.ac.uk

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Naina Kushwaha

PhD Student

joint with C. Sanders @ Artemis, CLF

Office: 132C

E-mail: nk217@st-andrews.ac.uk

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Martin McLaren

Technical Manager

Office: 132C

E-mail: mam19@st-andrews.ac.uk

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Shu Mo

PhD Student

Office: 132C

E-mail: sm584@st-andrews.ac.uk

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Dr Yoshiko Nanao

Postdoc

Office: 255

E-mail: yn25@st-andrews.ac.uk

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Dr Akhil Rajan

Postdoc

Office: 255

E-mail: ar289@st-andrews.ac.uk

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Dr Bruno Saika

Postdoc

joint with Peter Wahl

Office: 132C

E-mail:  bks1@st-andrews.ac.uk

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Marieke Visscher

PhD Student

joint with Andy Mackenzie, MPI-CPFS

Office:

E-mail: 

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Yu-Chi Yao

PhD Student

joint with Haijing Zhang, MPI-CPFS

Office:

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Alumni

  • James Crosby

PhD student 2017-2024, now undertaking teacher training

  • Phil Murgatroyd

Postdoc 2021-2024, now postdoc at Los Alamos National Lab​

  • Liam Trzaska

PhD student 2019-2024

  • Gesa Siemann

  • MSc and PhD student 2019-2024, postdoc 2024, now postdoc at Aarhus University

  • Brendan Edwards

PhD student 2019-2023, postdoc 2023-2024, now at Waymont Consulting Ltd

  • Anđela Živanović

PhD student 2019-2023

  • Tommas Antonelli

PhD student 2018-2022​, postdoc 2022-2023, now postdoc at ETH Zurich and IBM

  • Edgar Abarca Morales

PhD student 2019-2023​, now postdoc at Max-Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden

  • Chiara Bigi

Postdoc 2020-2022​, now beamline scientist at CASIOPEE beamline, SOLEIL synchrotron

  • Kaycee Underwood

PhD student 2017-2022, now postdoc at Peter Grünberg Institute, Jülich Forschungszentrum

  • Lewis Hart

Postdoc 2019-2022​

  • Igor Marković

PhD student 2016-2020, postdoc 2020, now faculty at University of Birmingham

  • Federico Mazzola

Postdoc 2016-2020, now CNR Postdoctoral Fellow

  • Oliver Clark

PhD student 2014-2018, postdoc 2018-2020, now postdoc at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin​

  • Shoresh Soltani

Postdoc 2019-2020, now research engineer at Max-IV synchrotron​

  • Matt Watson

Postdoc 2017-2019, now beamline scientist at I05 beamline, Diamond Light Source

  • Veronika Sunko

PhD student 2015 - 2019, now Miller Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Berkeley

  • Alisa Danilenko

MPhys project student 2018/19, now PhD student at Niels Bohr Institutet, University of Copenhagen

  • Deepnarayan Biswas

Postdoc 2015 - 2018, now beamline scientist at I09 beamline, Diamond Light Source

  • Andrew Hunter

MPhys project student 2017/18, now PhD student at University of Geneva

  • Lewis Bawden

PhD student 2013 - 2017, now postdoc at University of Amsterdam

  • Klara Volckaert

MPhys project student 2016/17, now PhD student at Aarhus University​

  • Jon Riley

PhD student 2013 - 2017, now Senior Data Scientist at HealthyHealth

  • Jiagui Feng

Postdoc 2015 - 2017, now Assistant Professor at Suzhou Institue of Nano-Tech and Nanobionics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

  • Liam Collins-McIntyre

Postdoc 2015 - 2016, now Data Scientist at Credit Suisse

  • Georgina Houghton

MPhys project student 2016/17

  • Robert Webster

MPhys project student 2015/16, now PhD student at the University of Glasgow

  • Katie Bennett

BSc project student 2015/16

  • Tanachat Eknapakul (a.k.a. Tom)

Visiting PhD student from Meevasana group, Suranaree University of Technology, Thailand 2014/15, now postdoc in Suranaree

  • Daniel Mayoh

MPhys project student 2014/15, now PhD student at the University of Warwick

  • Philippa Dunn

BSc project student 2014/15

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