Diamond CVD Personnel
- Professor Paul W. May - is a Professor of Physical Chemistry. Main research interests are all aspects of diamond film CVD, gas phase diagnostics, field and thermionic emission and bioapplications of diamond.
- Professor Neil A. Fox - is a Professor of Materials for Energy based in both the Schools of Chemistry and Physics. His main research interests are field and thermionic emission of diamond for energy applications, as well as diamond-based betavoltaics and nuclear batteries.
- Dr James Smith - is a research associate involved with the technical aspects of diamond deposition.
- Dr Ramiz Zulkharnay (nu18043@bristol.ac.uk) - passed his PhD in surface functionalisation of diamond for thermionic emission applications in 2023, and is now a postdoc working on diamond-based tritium detectors.
- Dr Robbie MacKenzie (gr.mackenzie@bristol.ac.uk) - obtained his PhD here in 2024 and is now a Senior Research Associate based at the IAC studying Gammavoltaic devices.
- Dr Liam Cullingford (liam.cullingford.2018@bristol.ac.uk) - obtained his PhD here in 2025 studying the use of diamond wafer composites as the basis of a novel fast-neutron-imaging detector material. He is now apostdoc here.
- Dr James Pittard (jp17358@bristol.ac.uk) - obtained his PhD here in 2025 co-sponsored by UKAEA working on diamond-based plasma-facing materials. Currently a postdoc here.
- Mrs Gulnur Zulpukarova (iv21161@bristol.ac.uk) - is a PhD student studying bactericidal applications of nanostructured diamond surfaces.
- Ms Sophie Osbourne (sophie.osbourne@bristol.ac.uk) - is a student doing a PhD studying the development of a diamond-based radiation detector with an enhanced sensitivity for tritium beta-decay radiation.
- Ms Mengai (Kisty) Mao (rs22209@bristol.ac.uk) - is a PhD student funded by the Chinese Science Council and UoB to look at black-diamond electrochemistry.
- Ms Catherine Monk (fj22344@bristol.ac.uk) - is a PhD student 50% funded by UKAEA working on diamond-based tritium detectors.
Other people working on diamond at Bristol include: Professor Neil Allan (Chemistry: Computer modelling of solid-state materials, including diamond defects and dopants), Professor David Fermin (Chemistry: Diamond Electrochemistry), Professor Martin Kuball (Physics: Diamond/GaN devices) and Dr Simon Kohn (Earth Sciences: Diamond gemstone defects).
A list of previous group members, including staff and students can be found on this page.