Extreme Materials @ Extreme Conditions
The Pulham Group
Postdocs and PhD students
Dr. Rowan Clark
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PhD 2017, then continued Postdoc in Phase Change Materials
Dr Hayleigh Lloyd
PhD student 2012-2017; Postdoc 2017-2019
Last known position: TNO (Netherlans Organisation for Applied Scientific Research), Netherlands
Dr Stuart Kennedy
Postdoc 2017-2018
Last known position: The Falcon Project Ltd. UK
Dr Nilgun Sen
​Nilgün completed her PhD on the synthesis and characterisation of new energetic materials at Ankara University in 2013. She has since been employed as an assistant professor in the Turkish National Police Academy Institute of Forensic Sciences since 2014. After being awarded with a postdoctoral scholarship given by The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK), she joined Prof. Pulham’s group in March 2017. Her particular research interests are in high pressure crystallographic studies of energetic materials.
Post-Doc 2017-18
Dr. Steven Hunter
Post-doctoral research includes 2 years working on an industrially funded project exploring the effects of high pressure on the structures and physico-chemical properties of selected oil-based lubricants at high-pressure (DAC work {Raman, fluorescence spectroscopy}, classical molecular dynamics [MD] simulations). Steve was subsequently on secondment at the US Army Research Laboratory, Aberdeen, Maryland where he performed experimental and computational studies of energetic materials under high-pressure and high-shear conditions (ShearDAC work {Raman, X-ray diffraction}, DFT-D, quantum MD).
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Post doc 2013-2016
Last known position:
Dr. James Roebuck
Post-doctoral research involved identifying additives that suppress the freezing point of screen wash to -2 oC at practical concentrations for commercial application. Further work was funded by the UK Home Office and aimed to develop additives to be used to inhibit the production of explosive materials from domestically available chemicals.
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Post doc 2015-2016
Last known position:
Dr. Sarah Thomas
US Army Post-doctoral Researcher
Post Doc: 2014-2015
Last known position:
Dr. Helen Maynard-Caseley
Post Doc: 2009-2010
Last known position: Australian Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO)
Dr. Iain Oswald
Leverhulme Trust Post-Doctoral Researcher in High Pressure Crystallography
Post Doc: 2006-2009
Adam Michalchuk
PhD 2018
Last known position: BAM Federal Institute for Materials Research, Germany
Daniel Ward
PhD 2017
Last known position: Nalas Engineering, USA
Alasdair Mackenzie
PhD 2017
Last known position:
David Oliver
PhD 2014
Last Known Position: Sunamp
David Millar
PhD 2010
Last known position: Civil Servant
Nasir Abbas
PhD 2009
Last known location: University of the Punjab
David S. Martins
PhD 2008
Previous Undergrads
Rosa Crevecoeur
Rosa was a final year MChem student at the University of Edinburgh. She was working to develop and characterise novel co-crystals of metacetamol, a stereoisomer of paracetamol.
MChem Student
Ivana Lapsanska
Ivana is in her final year of MChem at the University of Edinburgh. She worked in the Pulham group in association with industry on a summer project concerning the depression of freezing point of screen wash solution.
Summer Research Student, 2016
Ewan Baine
Ewan is in his final year of MChem at the University of Edinburgh. He undertook a summer project with the Pulham group looking at the use of phase changing materials in thermal energy storage.
Summer Research Student, 2016
Puck van Gerwen
Puck is a final year BSc student. As a summer student in the Pulham group she is looking at identifying new phase change materials (PCMs) to be used for heat storage applications, and analysing existing PCMs for degradation over time.
Summer Research Student, 2016
