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.
- Mr Tom Wallace-Smith (tw17227@bristol.ac.uk) - is a PhD student studying diamond-based beta-voltaic technology.
- Mrs Gulnur Zulpukarova (iv21161@bristol.ac.uk) - is a PhD student studying bactericidal applications of nanostructured diamond surfaces.
- Mr Adam Kirwan (adam.kirwan@bristol.ac.uk) - is a student doing a PhD in surface functionalisation of diamond for thermionic emission applications.
- Ms Liia Buhhanevits (wg19689@bristol.ac.uk) - is a student doing a PhD funded by SAAB.
- Mr Liam Cullingford (liam.cullingford.2018@bristol.ac.uk) - is a student doing a PhD funded by AWE looking into the use of diamond wafer composites as the basis of a novel fast-neutron-imaging detector material that improves upon existing technology to provide greater resolution and sensitivity.
- 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.
- Mr Sami Ullah (sami.ullah@bristol.ac.uk) - is a student doing a PhD studying methods to produce scalable temperature-stable emitters for thermionic and betavoltaic applications.
- Mr James Pittard (jp17358@bristol.ac.uk) - is a PhD student co-sponsored by UKAEA to work on diamond-based plasma-facing materials.
- 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.
- Mr Sam Wills - is a KTP Associate working in collaboration with Spaceforge looking into fabrication of semiconductor materials..
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.