Post Docs St Andrews

Dr. David Miller is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the School of Chemistry within the University of St Andrews. His primary research interests involve the solid state synthesis and characterisation of new materials for solid oxide fuel cells. Of particular interest is the use of scanning and transmission electron microscopy to probe crystal structure, microstructure and property relationships of these materials.

 

Dr. Shreyasi Chattopadhyay joined JTSI group as a postdoctoral researcher in November 2018. She completed her B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Chemistry from Jadavpur University, India. Shreyasi pursued her Ph.D. research in CSIR-Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute and received her doctorate degree in May 2018 from Jadavpur University, and then moved to St Andrews. The objective of her Ph.D. research was to develop new hierarchical nanostructured TiO2 materials and supported metal nanoparticles to study their efficiency mainly in photocatalysis and DSSCs. In the JTSI group, Shreyasi is working on the project entitled ‘Emergent Nanomaterials’. The aim of her recent research work here is to explore exsolution chemistry towards the growth of emergent nanoparticles in titanate-based perovskite oxides for photocatalysis and energy applications.

 

Dr. Selda Özkan has been a postdoctoral researcher at the University of St.  Andrews since August 2020. Her research focuses on noble-metal and noble-metal alloy electrocatalysts for low-temperature fuel cell applications. She obtained her master’s degree in Materials Science and Engineering at the Istanbul Technical University in Turkey. Then, Selda received her Ph.D. on 1D nanotubular arrays for different energy applications at the University of Erlangen-Nurnberg in Germany. During her Ph.D., she worked on a collaboration project between the University of Erlangen-Nurnberg and Toyota Motor Europe. Within the scope of the industrial project, she developed transition metal oxide support for Pt catalyst and fabricated a membrane electrode assembly (MEA) for polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs). Her current research interest includes the synthesis and functionalization of nanomaterials, nanostructured electrodes, and thin films for energy-related applications.

 

Dr. Machiel Flokstra