People

Principal Investigator

Tawfique Hasan is a Professor in NanoEngineering at the Cambridge Graphene Centre, Cambridge University Engineering Department and leads the group. He is also the Deputy Head of Electrical Engineering. He gained his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cambridge in 2009. He also has an MEng. in Analog Microelectronics from University of New South Wales, Australia. Tawfique got his BSc in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the Islamic University of Technology, Bangladesh in 2001. He has held several research positions in the University since his PhD, including a Junior Research Fellowship in King's College, Cambridge, a National Science Foundation China Foreign Young Scientist Research Fellowship and a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowship to work on graphene based flexible and printable devices. The latter contributed to the foundation of Cambridge Graphene Limited, which was acquired by Versarian Plc in 2017.
He is an Editorial Board Member of Scientific Reports and Advanced Photonics Nexus.
Prof Hasan is also a Title C Fellow and a Director of Studies in Engineering in Churchill College, Cambridge.

Post Doctoral Researchers & Fellows

Dr Mingfei Xiao joined the NanoEngineering group as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in 2020. Mingfei gained his PhD degree in physics at the Cavendish Laboratory, the University of Cambridge in 2020, supervised by Prof. Henning Sirringhaus (FRS). During his PhD, he worked on charge transport study of new kinds of conjugated polymers. Mingfei obtained his Master's in Tsinghua University, P.R. China in 2014, supervised by Prof. Yidong Huang and Prof. Wei Zhang, and bachelor's degree in Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), P.R. China in 2011. His research is currently focused on 2D (Opto)electronic devices fabricated by the inkjet printing process.

Dr Guolin Yun joined the NanoEngineering group as a Newton International Fellow in 2022. Guolin received his B.S. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics in 2017 from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC, China) and his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering in 2021 from the University of Wollongong (UOW, Australia). His research focus is on the liquid metal-filled hybrid conductive elastomers and their applications in flexible sensors and stretchable electronics.

Dr Tynee Bhowmick joined the NanoEngineering group as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in 2023. Tynee received her PhD in Materials Science from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, India, in 2022. During her PhD, her research focused on metal oxide thin film gas sensors. Tynee obtained her Master’s in Physics and, subsequently, Ceramic Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, India, in 2011 and 2013, respectively. Her current research is focused on the design of theory-based porous quantum dot gas sensors.

Visitors

Mr Feng Tian joined the NanoEngineering group as a visiting PhD student in 2023. He received his Bachelor's degree in Electronic Science and Technology from Hunan University in 2018 and now he is a PhD student in Zhejiang University. His current research focuses on the in-sensor computing and spectrometers.

PhD Students

Mr Nasiruddin Macadam is a PhD student in the group. He joined the CGC as part of the Centre of Doctoral Training in Graphene Technology in 2017. He studied Chemistry at Queen Mary University of London, where he received his Masters in 2017, and was the recipient of the Physical Chemistry Prize for his thesis on the dispersion and functionalisation of single-wall carbon nanotubes. He joined HNE in 2018 and will be working on the formulation of a range of functional inks for inkjet printable optoelectronics and sensors.
He is a member of Homerton College.

Mr Osarenkhoe Ogbeide is a PhD student in the group. Osarenkhoe received his Integrated Master’s Degree in Interdisciplinary Science from the University of Leicester, UK in 2016. During that time, he worked on the production and characterisation of colloidal metal and non-metal nanoparticles synthesised using a unique “liquid-jet method”. He joined the Cambridge Graphene Centre as a PhD student in the HNE group in 2018. His research is currently focused on addressing the limitations of traditional metal oxide gas sensors by nanoengineering.
He is a member of Churchill College.

Ms Sophia Bidinger is a PhD student in the group. In 2020, she received her B.S. in Materials Science & Engineering with College Honors at the University of Washington. As an undergraduate, she developed novel, printable inks for strain sensing applications in medical simulators while simultaneously working on complimentary human tissue biomechanics research. Sophia joined the NanoEngineering group in 2020. Her current research focuses on developing organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs) for wearable sensing applications.
She is a member of Churchill College.

Mr Zhuo Chen is a PhD student in the group. He received his BEng degree with First Class Honours and MPhil degree in Electronic & Computer Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology. He has worked on graphene based flexible strain sensor arrays and metal oxide quantum dots based gas sensor arrays for wearable applications. He co-founded a startup developing various environmental monitoring sensors and systems. He joined the NanoEngineering group in 2020. His current research focuses on printable graphene aerogel with Murray structure for gas sensors.
He is a member of Churchill College.

Mr Jinrui Chen is a PhD student in the group. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from the Institute for Advanced Study, Shenzhen University in 2020 and MPhil in Engineering from Cambridge University. During his Bachelors, he worked on the perovskite quantum dot-based memory devices. His current interests focus on the high bit precision printed memristor and its artificial synapse application.
He is a member of Christ's College.

Mr Binghan Zhou is a PhD student in the group. He received his Bachelor degree in Chemistry from Tsinghua University in 2020 and MPhil in Engineering from Cambridge University. He undertook undergraduate research on Murray materials based on biomass, and printable ionic thermoelectric materials made by graphene oxide-sodium alginate composite. His current research focuses on printable graphene aerogels with Murray structure for gas sensors.
He is a member of Girton College.

Mr Eric Munro is a PhD student in the group. In 2021, he received his B.S. in Electrical & Computer Engineering in the US, graduating first in his class in academic distinction. As an undergraduate, he worked on various embedded systems projects, including an autonomous rover that controls tick populations which was selected to represent North America and Canada during the 2020 IEEE CASS Student Design Competition. He also worked on and managed the development of a robotic system that won the 2021 IEEE SoutheastCon design competition. He joined the NanoEngineering group in 2023. His current research focuses on the development of novel algorithmic methods for use with computational spectrometers.
He is a member of Robinson College.

MPhil Students

Mr Zesheng Chen is an MPhil student in the group. He received his Bachelor of Engineering in Automation from Zhejiang University in 2022. As an undergraduate, he developed and optimized a PCB based digital microfluidic system in his sophomore year (2020). Later he began studying the motion patterns of bombyx mori using computer vision methods in his junior year (2021). He joined the NanoEngineering group in 2022. His current research focuses on electrically tunable FPI arrays.
He is a member of Corpus Christi College.

Ms Sibghah Khan is an MPhil student in the group. She received her MEng degree in Computer Science from University College London in 2022. In her undergraduate, she carried out research on optimising computationally demanding software for low-compute and single-board devices, by utilising multi-threading techniques. She has also researched the effectiveness of GANs and autoencoders for the creation of deepfakes. Her current research focuses on algorithms for spectrometers and beyond.
She is a member of Newnham College.

Undergraduate Project Students

Mr Michael Stevens is an undergraduate project student in the group. He is currently a 4th year undergraduate engineer and is specialising in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering. His research project is based on designing microporous structures of flexible, conductive elastomers and investigating the influences of these parameters on the electrical and mechanical properties of the elastomer, with the aim of determining the optimal microporous parameters for pressure sensitivity and conductivity.
He is a member of Robinson College.

Mr Luke Mockler is an undergraduate project student within the group. He is currently a 4th year undergraduate and is specialising in Information and Computer Engineering. His research project is focussed on the electronics integration for in-vivo organic transistor biosensing. He is developing an interface that can analyse, display and record biosensing data from multiple organic transistors simultaneously.

He is a member of St John’s College.

Past Members

Dr Taza Gul. Visiting Scholar. Next destination: City University of Science and Information Technology, Pakistan
Ms Kasia Wilk. Summer student.
Mr Yoshiki Kawai. Visiting graduate student. Next destination: Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan.
Dr Garam Bae. Postdoctoral Researcher.
Mr Reef Boericke. Undergraduate Project student.
Dr Shouhu Liu. Eighth PhD graduate from the NanoEngineering group. Now with Shaoguan municipal government, Guangdong Province, China.
Dr Xiaoxi Zhu. Seventh PhD graduate from the NanoEngineering group. Now with Reddie & Grose LLP, UK.
Dr Tom Albrow-Owen. Sixth PhD graduate from the NanoEngineering group. Now with the Joyce group in Electrical Engineering, Cambridge University.
Dr Tien-Chun Wu. Fifth PhD graduate from the NanoEngineering group. Now with Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.
Dr Leonard Ng. Fouth PhD graduate from the NanoEngineering group. Now with Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Dr Doo-Seung Um. Postdoctoral Researcher. Next destination: Sejong University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Dr Zongyin Yang. Third PhD graduate from the NanoEngineering group. Now with Zhejiang University, China.
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Dr Guohua Hu. Second PhD graduate from the NanoEngineering group. Now with The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HKSAR, China.
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Dr Richard Howe. First PhD graduate from the NanoEngineering group. Now with Mewburn Ellis, UK.
Ms Mai Ashiba. Summer student. Next destination: Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan.
Ms Dorothy Zhong. Undergraduate Project student. Next destination: Jaguar Landrover, UK.
Mr Fumiyasu Seino. Summer student. Next destination: Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan.
Mr Yubo Wang. Summer student. Next destination: Zhejiang University, China.
Mr Sucbinder Johal. Undergraduate Project student.
Dr Henri Jussila. Visiting Fellow. Next destination: Aalto University, Finland.
Dr Hatice Tuncer. Postdoctoral Researcher. Next destination: University of Cambridge, UK.
Mr Simon Schofield. Undergraduate Project student.
Mr Adam Robinson. Undergraduate Project student.
Dr Jinzhang Wang. Visiting PhD student. Next destination: Shenzhen University, China.
Mr Joey G. Gateshill. Undergraduate Project student. Next destination: Jaguar Landrover, UK.
Mr William Richards. Undergraduate Project student. Next destination: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.
Mr Mateusz Zelazny. Masters Project student. Next destination: University of Cambridge, UK.
Mr Adrian Y. X. Yeng. Undergraduate Project student. Next destination: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.
Dr David Dodoo-Arhin. Visiting Fellow. Next destination: University of Ghana, Ghana.
Mr Sarmad Ahmed Shaikh. ERASMUS visiting student.