Previous Staff and Students
- 2023
- Martin Sinclair
(Research Associate) - Semiconductor Device Group, James Watt School of Engineering - Fergus Hayes (Research Associate) - PASQAL (quantum computing)
- Michael Williams (PhD Student) - University of Portsmouth
- Karen Hegyi (Secretary) - Retired
- Maya Kinley-Hanlon (PhD Student)
- Prof. James Faller (Visiting Professor) - Deceased
- Martin Sinclair
- 2022
- Dr. Graeme Eddolls (Research Assistant)
- Dr. Richard Middlemiss (RAEng Research Fellow)
- Prof. Ken Strain (Deputy Director of the IGR, Professor of Physics) - Retired
- Dr. Steven Bramsiepe (Research Associate)
- Dr. Jennifer Wright (PhD Student) - Postdoctoral position at the Australian National University.
- Johnny Hyland (PhD Student) - Left for data science role in renewable energy.
- Dr. Eric Oelker (Lecturer)
- 2021
- Dr. Hunter Gabbard (PhD Student) - AI Solution Architect at Booz Allen Hamilton.
- Dr. Sabina Huttner (Research Fellow) - Retired.
- Dr. Joseph Briggs (PhD Student) - Engineer at Sense Photonics.
- 2020
- Dr. Martin Sinclair (PhD Student) - Research associate in Electronics and Nanoscale Engineering Research Division, James Watt School Of Engineering.
- Jane Foxall (Secretary) - Personal Assistant to Head of School
- Dr. Borja Sorazu (Research Fellow) - Moved to Fotech Solutions.
- 2019
- Dr. Richard Middlemiss (Research Associate) - Research Fellowship in the School of Engineering.
- Dr. Jessica Steinlechner (Research Associate) - Assistant Professor at Maastricht University.
- Dr. Teng Zhang (PhD Student) - Postdoc position at the Institute for Gravitational Wave Astronomy at the University of Birmingham.
- Hafizah Isa (PhD Student (joint with MCMP))
- Prof. Stefan Hild (Professor) - Professor of Gravitational Research at Maastricht University.
- Ayatri Singha (PhD Student) - Transferred to Maastricht University.
- Andrei Utina (PhD Student) - Transferred to Maastricht University.
- Dr. Matthew Pitkin (Research Fellow) - Lectureship at Lancaster University.
- Dr. Brynley Pearlstone (PhD Student)
- Mark Fletcher (PhD Student) - Standard Life.
- Dr. Kyung Ha Lee (PhD Student) - Postdoctoral Scholar at Stanford University.
- 2018
- Dr. Natalia Korsakova (Newton International Fellow) - The ARTEMIS laboratory at The Côte d’Azur Observatory (Nice).
- Dr. Angus Bell (Senior Research Fellow) - Lead Technologist at Cascade Technologies Ltd. (part of Emerson Electric Co.)
- Dr. Valentina Mangano (PhD Student)
- Dr. David Keitel (Marie Curie Fellow) - Research Fellowship at the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation at the University of Portsmouth.
- Dr. Daniela Pascucci (PhD Student) - Postdoctoral position in the Virgo group at Nikhef.
- Dr. Mariëlle van Veggel (Research Fellow) - Left for a teacher training course at the University of Strathclyde.
- Dr. Mervyn Chan (PhD Student) - Left for a postdoctoral position at KAGRA.
- Dr. Christian Killow (SUPA Advanced Research Fellow) - Senior Product Development Engineer at Qioptiq.
- Dr. Raymond Robie (PhD Student)
- Dr. Margot Phelps (PhD Student) - Junior Scientist/Postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) .
- Dr. Jan Simon Hennig (PhD Student) - Junior Scientist/Postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) .
- 2017
- Dr. Martin Hart (PhD Student (joint with MCMP))
- Alasdair Houston (PhD Student) - Pursuit of opportunities in the catering industry.
- Dr. Jade Powell (PhD Student) - Postdoctoral researcher at Swinburne University of Technology.
- Dr. Sean Leavey (Research Associate) - Moved to the AEI Hannover
- Dr. Christian Gräf (Research Associate) - Bosch in Germany.
- Dr. Rebecca Douglas (Research Assistant) - Trainee Patent Attorney at Alistair Hindle Associates.
- Dr. Stefan Danilishin (Research Associate) - Senior Scientist at the AEI Hannover
- 2016
- Dr. Gavin Newton (Honorary Research Fellow) - Deceased.
- Dr. Michele Leighton (PhD Student)
- Lewis Mackenzie (PhD Student (joint with Imaging Concepts)) - Research Fellow at University of Leeds School of Biomedical Sciences.
- Dr. Gareth Davies (PhD Student) - Research Fellow at Cranfield Forensic Institute.
- 2015
- Dr. Kieran Craig (PhD Student) - Moved to the Institute for Cosmic Ray Research at the University of Tokyo.
- Dr. Yiming Hu (PhD Student) - AEI Hannover.
- Dr. Neil Gordon (PhD Student) - Synaptec.
- 2014
- Dr. Christopher Bell (PhD Student) - Asset Integrity group at DNV GL.
- Dr. Johanna Bogenstahl (Honorary Research Fellow) - Postdoc position at the (a href="http://www.lisa.aei-hannover.de/">AEI Hannover
- David Vine (MSc Student) - Ph.D. in the Thin Film Research Centre at the University of the West of Scotland.
- Joshua Logue (PhD Student) - Position at BT.
- Dr. John Macarthur (Postgraduate Student) - Researcher at the Fraunhofer Centre for Applied Photonics.
- Dr. Colin Gill (Research Associate) - Selex.
- Dr. Ignacio Santiago Prieto (Postgraduate Student) - Teaching job at the Universidad Iberoamericana A.C.
- Craig Lawrie (Research Assistant) - Position at Selex.
- 2013
- Dr. Alasdair Taylor (Postgraduate Student)
- Dr. Nicola Beveridge (KTP Associate) - GKN Aerospace
- Dr. Rahul Kumar (Postgraduate Student) - Royal Society JSPS Fellowship at the Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo
- Dr. Paul Campsie (Research Assistant) - Freescale
- 2012
- Dr. Ewan Fitzsimons (Research Assistant) - EADS Astrium, Friedrichshafen.
- Craig Lawrie (Postgraduate Student)
- Dr. Keith Evans (Postgraduate Student) - Postdoctoral position in condensed matter physics at the University of Warwick
- Dr. Erin MacDonald (Postgraduate Student) - Postdoctoral position at Cardiff University.
- Jean Greig (Secretary) - SUPA administration.
- Dr. Matt Abernathy (Postgraduate Student) - Postdoctoral position at Caltech.
- 2011
- Dr. John Nelson (Research Assistant)
- Dr. Matt Edgar (Postgraduate Student) - Postdoctoral position in the Optics group.
- Dr. Mike Plissi (Research Fellow) - Clyde Space.
- Dr. Fiona Speirits (Research Assistant) - Computational Nonlinear and Quantum Optics group at the University of Strathclyde
- Dr. Mikel Bastarrika (Postgraduate Student) - Prevailing Ltd. Previously, renewable applications department, Met Office.
- 2010
- Dr. Ronny Nawrodt (Research Assistant) - Senior Scientist at the University of Jena
- Dr. Ed Bloomer (Postgraduate Student) - Royal Greenwich Observatory
- Dr. John Miller (Research Assistant) - Research Associate at the Centre for Gravitational Physics at the Australian National University
- 2009
- Dr. Eleanor Chalkley (Postgraduate Student) - Postdoctoral position at the University of Birmingham.
- Neil Robertson (Technician) - Retired
- 2008
- Allan Latta (Technician) - Retired
- Dr. Kirill Tokmakov (Research Assistant) - Postdoctoral positions at the University of Strathclyde, and then Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies
- Dr. James Clark (Postgraduate Student) - Postdoctoral position at Cardiff University.
- Dr. Mark Barton (Research Fellow) - CalTech.
- Dr. Bob Taylor (Postgraduate Student) - Postdoctoral position at AEI Hannover
- Dr. Jennifer Toher (Postgraduate Student) - JP Morgan
- 2007
- Dr. Chris Messenger (Research Assistant) - Postdoctoral position at AEI Hannover
- Dr. Morag Casey (Research Assistant) - University Teacher at the University of Glasgow.
- Dr. John Veitch (Research Assistant) - Postdoctoral position at the University of Birmingham.
- 2006
- Dr. Caroline Cantley (Research Fellow) - Business Development Manager for Mitsui Babcock
- Dr. David Crooks (Research Assistant) - SUPA Learning Technologist.
- 2005
- Dr. Peter Sneddon (Research Assistant) - University Teacher at the University of Glasgow.
- Dr. Eoin Elliffe (Research Assistant) - Royal Bank of Canada, Dublin
- 2004
- Nicolas Crouzet (Research Assistant)
- Dr. Rejean Dupuis (Research Assistant) - Postdoctoral position at the California Institute of Technology
- 2003
- Dr. Martin Hewitson (Research Assistant) - Postdoctoral position at AEI Hannover