I currently have multiple PhD students working with me: Ben Tragheim and Evie Ladbrook who are in their final year,Matt Edwards who is in his third year, and Beth Arnold and Jaskaran Mangat who are in the first year of study at Warwick.
Dr Struan Simpson started a Postdoc position in my group funded by the EPSRC in 2022. Dr Craig Hiley and Dr Catriona Crawford joined the group in October 2022 and January 2023 respectively as part of a collaborative project with Professor Richard Walton funded by the Leverhulme Trust. Dr Cameron Wilson joined the group in October 2024, also on a collaborative Leverhulme Trust project, jointly with Professor Gabriele Sosso.
We also work closely with Dr Robin Sjokvist who is currently a Postdoc in the microscopy group in Physics, and with Dr Jere Tidey, a former group member who is now in the X-ray Diffraction Research Technology Platform.
Dr Mark Senn
Group LeaderMark’s undergraduate degree was at Durham University where he studied Chemistry, taking a year abroad at the University of Texas at El Paso to complete his MChem degree. He moved to the University o...
Dr Nick Funnell
Visiting Associate ProfessorNick studied Chemistry at the University of Reading, graduating in 2008. After this he moved to the group of Simon Parsons at the University of Edinburgh where his PhD research focussed on understandi...
Ben Tragheim
PhD StudentI started my PhD in the Senn group at the University of Warwick, based in the Department of Chemistry, in October 2021 after graduating with an MChem degree from the University of St Andrews. My resea...
Evie Ladbrook
PhD StudentI started my PhD in 2021 as part of the Analytical Science Centre for Doctoral Training (AS CDT) at the University of Warwick. Prior to this, I completed an interdisciplinary degree in Natural Science...
Dr Struan Simpson
Postdoctoral ResearcherStruan graduated with a first-class honours MChem degree from the University of Aberdeen in 2018, earning numerous prizes including the William Rudolph Center Medal for Most Distinguished Graduate in ...
Dr Craig Hiley
Postdoctoral ResearcherCraig completed his MChem degree at the University of Warwick in 2010, with a final year research project on hydrothermal synthesis of ruthenium and antimony oxides in the Walton Group. He remained in...
Matt Edwards
PhD studentI started my PhD with the Senn group in 2022. I graduated from the University of Nottingham in 2015, with my master’s project in electrochemistry focusing on developing catalysts for vanadium based ...
Dr Catriona Crawford
Postdoctoral ResearcherCatriona completed her MChem at the University of Aberdeen in 2018 and was awarded the David Christie Memorial Prize for the best undergraduate research for her work on twist-bend nematic liquid cryst...
Dr Robin Sjokvist
Postdoctoral ResearcherRobin is a postdoc working in the Microscopy with Prof. Richard Beanland and cosupervised by Mark. His project is funded by EPSRC grant EP/V053701/1 on "New directions in high temperature dielectrics...
Dr Cameron Wilson
Postdoctoral ResearcherCameron’s undergraduate degree was at the University of Bath in where he studied for an MSci in Natural sciences, graduating in 2020 with first-class honours. During his undergraduate degree, Camero...
Elizabeth Arnold
PhD StudentElizabeth started her PhD in the Senn group in October 2024 after graduating with a first class MPhys Physics degree from Durham University. During her undergraduate degree, she undertook two summer p...
Jaskaran Mangat
PhD StudentMy work focusses on the effect of subtle structural distortions on the physical properties of rare-earth nickelates under extreme conditions, specifically doped Ruddlesden-Popper systems hosting unusu...
Alumni
Dr Chris Ablitt
Postdoctoral ResearcherI am a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Senn group. My research involves modelling the atomic structure of Ruddlesden-Popper oxides: a class of layered perovskite materials that exhibit a rare p...
Sarah Craddock
Group alumniSarah is a student at St. John’s College, Oxford and is doing her Part II, the final part of an undergraduate masters, with the Senn group. She is looking at understanding physical properties, which...
Harriet McCay
Group alumniHarriet joined the group as a Part2 student in October 2016 where she worked on controlling and enhancing negative thermal expansion in layered perovskite materials....
Jessica Woodland-Scott
Group alumniHanna was a student at St Hugh’s college, Oxford, while working with the Senn group on her Part II research project, the final part of an undergraduate masters. She looked at understanding the funda...
Gabriel Clarke
PhD StudentI am a fourth-year PhD student at the University of Warwick based at the Materials and Analytical Sciences centre as part of the Chemistry department. I joined the Senn Group in October 2017 and my re...
Natasha Marchant
Group alumniNatasha was an undergraduate chemistry student based at the University of Warwick. During the final year of her undergraduate MChem course, she carried out a master’s project with the Senn Group, fo...
Tobie Bird
PhD StudentI was a PhD student from the Molecular Analytical Science CDT at the University of Warwick. I was co-supervised by Dr Nicholas Bristowe of the University of Durham. My project involved developing an u...
Dr Fernando Pomiro
Postdoctoral ResearcherFernando joined to the group in October 2018 as a postdoctoral fellow. He completed his PhD entitle “New materials with potential magnetoelectric properties: Influence of the d and f cations” at N...
Anna Herlihy
PhD StudentI am a final-year PhD student, co-funded by the University of Warwick and ISIS, the UK Neutron and Muon Source. My research focusses on the investigation of pressure-tuning of order-disorder behaviour...
Jordan Keane
Group alumniJordan was a Masters student studying chemistry at the University of Warwick with a keen interest in computational chemistry. His project was supervised by Dr Mark Senn and focused on layered perovski...
Lauren Cooper
Group alumniLauren was a fourth year MChem student at the University of Warwick carrying out her final year research project as part of the Senn Group. The project focused on synthesising different layered perovs...
Dr Jeremiah Tidey
Postdoctoral ResearcherJeremiah graduated from the University of Nottingham in 2012 with an MSci in chemistry, undertaking his final-year research project in the high-pressure X-ray diffraction studies of macrocycle platinu...
Christopher Keegan
PhD StudentI am a first-year PhD student on the CDT in Theory and Simulation of Materials at Imperial College London. I am jointly supervised by Mark Senn, Arash Mostofi at Imperial College London and Nicholas B...
Shuai Yuan
MChem StudentShuai was an undergraduate student (Year 4) at Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick. He joined the Senn group 2019/2020 to develop an MChem project, focusing on the study of the crystal stru...
Hannah McAloone
MChem StudentHannah was an undergraduate chemistry student based at the University of Warwick. She undertook the final year of her undergraduate MChem course in 2019/2020, carrying out a master’s project with th...
Dashnor Beqiri
PhD StudentI am a first year PhD student at the University of Warwick based at the Materials and Analytical Sciences centre as part of the Chemistry department. I joined the Senn group in December 2019 and my re...
Zhi Yang Lee
MChem StudentI am a final year undergraduate MChem student based at the University of Warwick. For my master’s project with the Senn Group, I am investigating the thermoelectric properties of Ca1-x-ySrxBayTiO3...
Serena Ubha
Summer studentHi! My name is Serena Ubha and I have just undergone my second year at the University of Warwick as an undergrad. I am currently doing a URSS project working "team fluoride", supervised by Cat, Craig ...