Our team
As a group, we work hard to maintain a relaxed and supportive environment, preferring an emphasis on creative thinking instead of hours at the bench. We are always on the lookout for dynamic and creative individuals to join us. The group works best when we have a good gender balance, and we are 100% LGBTQ+ friendly.
Andrew Goodwin
Andrew is Professor of Materials Chemistry and University Research Professor at Oxford. He studied at Sydney and Cambridge before moving to the ICL in 2009. Andrew is a Fellow of St John’s College.
Ana Fairbairn
Ana is the group PA. She is originally from Brazil and has studied nutrition in the UK. Ana was a PA in the Medical Sciences Division before joining the group.
Simon Cassidy
Simon is the Diffraction and Magnetometry Facility Supervisor in the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, and is in charge of the advanced diffraction facilities used in the group. He was both an MChem and DPhil student at Oxford, supervised by Simon Clarke. Simon is a Lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry at Somerville College.
Theodosios Famprikis
Theo is a Royal Society Newton Fellow with research interests in energy materials. He holds the Malcolm Green Early Career Fellowship in Inorganic Chemistry at Balliol College.
Nimrod Benshalom
Nim is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow working on disorder-enhanced transport as part of the VET-SOFT programme grant. Nim is a Fellow at Kelogg College.
Tristan Dolling
Tristan is a Postdoctoral Research Associate, working on the synthesis of various metal–organic frameworks.
Joe Morrow
Joe is a CDT DPhil student supervised by Volker Deringer and affiliated with our group. His project centres on developing understanding the structure of amorphous molybdenum sulfides
Quentin Guéroult
Quentin is a DPhil student and part of the 2021 cohort of OxICFM CDT. He was previously a Part II student in the group, carrying out a project in collaboration with F-X Coudert
Elodie Harbourne
Elodie is a DPhil student, cofunded by the UK XFEL hub, who is working on local structure problems in Prussian blue analogues. Elodie is a Lecturer in Chemistry at St Catherine’s College.
Robert Paraoan
Robert is a DPhil student working on the lattice dynamics and mechanical properties of Truchet-tile materials
Helena Barker
Helena recently completed a Part II in the group and is shortly to begin a DPhil
Guy Greenbaum
Guy recently completed a Part II in the group and will shortly be beginning a DPhil
Florence Ellary
Flo is a Part II in the group
Patrick Rees
Patrick is an affiliated Part II carrying out his research in Peter Bruce’s group
Phillip Siller
Phillip is an affiliated Part II carrying out his research in Mauro Pasta’s group
Xintian (Wendy) Wang
Wendy is a Part II in the group