Group

Current group members

Academic

Dr. Michael P. Weir: Assistant Professor of Physics

Ph.D. students

Gurdit Bhakar

Gurdit is undertaking a Ph.D. in the experimental investigation of energy harvesting nanocomposites, including magnetic and thermoelectric materials.

Supervisors: Dr Mike Weir, Dr James Sharp

Galen Park

Galen is undertaking an interdiscplinary Ph.D. project in plant microbial fuel cells for energy harvesting which is funded by a Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grant.

Supervisors: Dr Mike Weir, Dr Alison Tidy (Plant Sciences), Dr Helena Gomes (Engineering)

Alexander Sterling

Alex is undertaking a Ph.D. in the HeatToPower theme of the EPSRC and SFI CDT in Sustainable Chemistry, exploring high throughput thermoelectric characterisation of new organic and hybrid organic-inorganic materials.

Supervisors: Dr Mike Weir, Prof Simon Woodward (Chemistry), Dr Oleg Makarovsky

Zichen Zhang

Zichen is undertaking a Ph.D. in the HeatToPower theme of the EPSRC and SFI CDT in Sustainable Chemistry, exploring the synthesis of organic polymer thermoelectrics.

Supervisors: Dr Mike Weir, Prof Simon Woodward (Chemistry), Dr Miriam O’Duill (Chemistry), Dr Vincenzo Taresco (Chemistry)

Unza Jamil (University College Dublin)

Unza is undertaking a Ph.D. project at UCD on the application of Life Cycle Assessment to thermoelectric materials and devices as part of the EPSRC and SFI CDT in Sustainable Chemistry.

Supervisors: Prof Nick Holden, School of Biosystems and Food Engineering, UCD and a Research Studies Panel including Dr Mike Weir

Adeem Alzeer

Adeem is undertaking a Ph.D. in the School of Physics and Astronomy on low work function materials.

Supervisors: Dr. James O’Shea, Dr Mike Weir

Craig Venables

Craig is undertaking a Ph.D. project in the School of Physics and Astronomy on the fabrication and characterisation of optical memristor devices.

Supervisors: Dr Neil Kemp and Dr Mike Weir

M. Sci. students

No current project students.

Undergraduate Summer Projects

No current summer project students.

Former group members

Chris Pierce: EPSRC summer vacation internship

Chris has completed a successful summer studentship which involved the automation of thermoelectric measurements in Python and novel approaches to drop cast thermoelectric measurements.

Dr. Zhongnan Duan

Zhongnan has completed a Ph.D. project in the School of Chemistry on the synthesis of new, sustainable PEDOT:carrageenan polymers for use in organic electronics.

David Piggott: M. Sci. Research Project (2022-2023)

Lucy Clements: M. Sci. Research Project (2022-2023)

David and Lucy successfully completed an M. Sci. (Natural Sciences) research project on plant microbial fuel cells.

Max Butterworth: Undergraduate Summer Research Project (2022). Max has successfully completed an experimental investigation of organic thermoelectrics.

Prashant Jivan: Undergraduate Summer Research Project (2022). Prashant has successfully completed a project communicating the positive climate benefits of thermoelectrics.

George Large: M.Sci. Research Project (2021-2022)

Dominykas Maciulaitis: M.Sci. Research Project (2021-2022)

George and Dominykas successfully completed an M.Sci. research project on indium selenide thermoelectrics.

Caitlin Dickson: M.Sci. Research Project (2020-2021)

Sunny Luhar: M.Sci. Research Project (2020-2021)

Sunny and Caitlin successfully completed an M.Sci. research project on small-molecule organic thermoelectrics. [Graduation pic]