Dr Nick Funnell

Nick 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 understanding the resulting crystal structures of simple organic compounds when subjected to high pressures. After completing his PhD in early 2012, Nick moved to a Postdoctoral position at the University of Oxford with Andrew Goodwin. Here, he used total scattering techniques to look at the local structures of some highly disordered systems, in particular low-dimensional solids including nanosheets and nanoparticles. In 2015, Nick was awarded the CCDC Chemical Crystallography Prize for Younger Scientists as a result of this work. In 2016, Nick moved to the ISIS Neutron and Muon Facility, to take up an Instrument Scientist position, where he is jointly-responsible for the high-pressure diffractometer, PEARL. In October 2019 Nick was appointed as a visiting Associate Professor at the University of Warwick where he cosupervises Anna  Herlihy's PhD project and is involved in developing the use of high pressure diffraction techniques within the group.