Group retreat on the Lycian Way, Türkiye, 2026
A diverse, international and interdisciplinary team
We keep the atmosphere informal and relaxed, which encourages us to take risks and advance our science. We also believe that rigorous academic work should be fun and engaging.
Research fellows
Zhongzheng Yu
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow
Rakesh Arul
Junior Research Fellow, St John’s College
Shiori Miyazaki
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow
Lars van Turnhout
Postdoctoral researcher
Harvey Mackenzie
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow
Silan Zhang
Vetenskapsrådet (VR) Fellow
Ebin Sebastian
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow
Yunzhou Deng
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow
Pratyush Ghosh
Junior Research Fellow, St John’s College
Zhao Jiang
Postdoctoral researcher
Meng Liu
Postdoctoral researcher
PhD students
Jiho Han
PhD student, jointly supervised with Prof. Clare Grey
Alasdair Tew
PhD student
Felicity Woolhouse
PhD student, jointly supervised with Prof. Bartomeu Monserrat
Chua Xian Wei
PhD student, jointly supervised with Prof. Sam Stranks
Julia Osmólska
PhD student
Bofeng Xue
PhD student
Joonha Jung
PhD student, jointly supervised with Prof. Judith MacManus-Driscoll
Shuyan Ni
PhD student, jointly supervised with Prof. Michael De Volder and Prof. Clare Grey
Felix Mountford
PhD student
Nidhish Sagar
PhD student, jointly supervised with Prof. Miles Cranmer
Irene Rea
PhD student
Group leader
Akshay Rao
Professor of Physics, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge
Akshay received his BSc from St Stephen’s College, University of Delhi, in 2006 and his MSc from the University of Sheffield in 2007. He completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge in 2011, then held a Junior Research Fellowship at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, before establishing his research group in 2015.
His awards include the Institute of Physics Henry Moseley Medal and Prize (2017), the Zasshikai Lectureship of the University of Tokyo (2025) and the Institute of Physics James Joule Medal and Prize (2026), awarded “for pioneering contributions to the physics of energy materials”.
He is a co-founder of Cambridge Photon Technology and illumion.
Where our alumni are now
Faculty and group leaders
- Mengxia LiuAssistant Professor, Yale University, USA
- Jooyoung SungAssociate Professor, DGIST, South Korea
- Hope BretscherAssistant Professor, Boston College, USA
- Scott KeeneAssistant Professor, Rice University, USA
- Raj PandyaAssistant Professor, University of Cambridge
- Huangtianzhi ZhuAssistant Professor, Zhejiang University, China
- Junzhi (Jason) YeProfessor, South China University of Technology, China
- Renren DengProfessor, Zhejiang University, China
- Victor GrayGroup Leader, Uppsala University, Sweden
- Antonios AlvertisAssistant Professor, University of Texas at Austin, USA
- Dmitry ZiminSubgroup Leader, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
- Sachin Dev VermaAssistant Professor, IISER Bhopal, India
- Yi-Teng HuangAssistant Professor, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
- Arjun AshokaRowland Fellow, Rowland Institute at Harvard, USA
- Mylène SautyGroup Leader, CEA Paris-Saclay, France
- Sanyang HanAssociate Professor, Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, China
- Zhilong ZhangProfessor, South China University of Technology, China
- Zhaojun LiAssistant Professor, Uppsala University, Sweden
- Shogo AmemoriAssistant Professor, Kanazawa University, Japan
- Nathaniel DavisAssociate Professor, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
- Murad TayebjeeAssociate Professor, UNSW Sydney, Australia
Fellowships and research positions
- Aleksandar RadićWinton–Berkeley Fellow, University of California, Berkeley, USA
- Tomi BaikieSchmidt Science Fellow and Lindemann Fellow, MIT, USA
- Jeannine Grüne1851 Research Fellow, University of Oxford
- Yorrick BoeijeJSPS Postdoctoral Fellow, The University of Osaka, Japan
- Juhwan LimPostdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan, USA
Industry and companies
- Christoph SchnedermannCo-founder and CEO, illumion
- Alice MerryweatherCo-founder and Head of R&D, illumion
- Ashish SharmaTechnology Innovation Lead, Cambridge Photon Technology
- Nipun SawhneyCo-founder and CEO, RapidX Bio
- Jesse AllardiceMember of Technical Staff, Odyssey
- Nicolas GauriotResearch Scientist, Toshiba
- Jessica WaltonData Scientist, Virgin Media
- Limeng NiOxford Instruments
- Tom JellicoeGrowth and Business Development Lead, Sony Semiconductor Solutions Europe
- Marcus BöhmResearch and Development Specialist, Infineon Technologies
- Alexandre CheminalTeam Manager, Sidel
- Arelo TanohTrading Operator, bp
Policy, publishing and education
- Ture HinrichsenProject Lead, Office of the UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser
- Paolo AndrichUKRI Policy Fellow, University of Oxford and Home Office
- Alexander (Sasha) SneydAnalyst, International Energy Agency
- Arya ThampiPublishing Ethics Expert, Elsevier
- Aswathy GirijaSubject Commissioning Editor, IOP Publishing
- Richard ChenPhysics Teacher, The Perse School, Cambridge