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2D Sheffield group is led by Professor Sasha Tartakovskii. In December 2025 the group consists of 2 postdocs: Daniel Gillard and Xuerong Hu; 5 PhD students: Zara Taylor, Timothy Chester-Parsons, Oscar Palma Chaundler, Owen Wolley, Oliver Williams; 1 Masters students: Manmini Gunasekera.
20 PhD students have graduated since 2008 and are now based in industry and academia in Europe (UK, Ireland, Germany, France, Italy, Ukraine), North America (Mexico) and Asia (Japan).
We have PhD openings every year, please apply. We also run several Masters and undergraduate research projects per year. Get in touch if interested!
Professor Alexander Tartakovskii
PhD: Institute of Solid State Physics (Chernogolovka)
Undergraduate/Masters: Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
Postdoctoral researchers
Postdoctoral researchers
Dr Daniel Gillard
PhD: University of Sheffield
Undergraduate/Masters: University of Sheffield
Dr Xuerong Hu
PhD: Aalto, Finland and Northwest University, China
Undergraduate/Masters: Northwest University
PhD students
PhD students
Zara Taylor
Masters: King's College London
Undergraduate: University of Warwick
Timothy Chester-Parsons
Undergraduate/Masters: The University of Sheffield
Oscar Palma Chaundler
Undergraduate: The University of Sheffield
Owen Wolley
Undergraduate: The University of Sheffield
Oliver Williams
Undergraduate/Masters: The University of Sheffield
Masters students
Masters students
Manmini Gunasekera
Undergraduate: The University of Sheffield
Former members
Former members
PhD, postdocs and recent master students, in chronological order with the most recent destinations.
Sam Randerson (Aegiq, Sheffield)
Alexander Knight (Puffyn, software)
Paul Bouteyre (Lyon)
Yadong Wang (University of Sheffield)
Oscar Hutchings (National Nuclear Laboratory, Cumbria)
Panaiot Zotev (Photonics Engineer, Alcyon Photonics, Spain)
Bartlomiej Kulik (PhD at University of Sheffield)
Charalambos Louca (Politecnic di Milano, Italy -> Cambridge University)
Dominic Hensman (Wilson Gunn, Manchester)
Sharada Nagarkar (PhD at University of York)
Andrea Barbiero (Toshiba Research Europe, UK)
Jonathan Müller (Toshiba Research Europe, UK)
Thomas Lyons (RIKEN, Japan -> Aegiq, UK)
Armando Genco (Politecnic di Milano, Italy)
Luca Sortino (LMU, Germany)
Alessandro Catanzaro (NPL, UK)
Toby Severs Millard (Imperial College London, NPL)
Evgeny Alexeev (Cambridge University)
Oleksandr Skrypka (programming jobs, Ukraine)
Scott Dufferwiel (Aegiq, UK)
Robert Schofield (NPL, UK)
Osvaldo Del Pozo Zamudio (Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, Mexico)
Stefan Schwarz (Bernard Technologies GmbH, Germany)
Tilmann Godde (Opsira GmbH, Germany)
Jorge Puebla (RIKEN, Japan -> Kyoto University)
Daniel Sercombe (Intel, Ireland)
Romain Toro (Alten, France)
Odilon Couto Jr (Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil)
Nasser Babazadeh (University of Sheffield)
Claire Elliott (NPL, UK)
Joanna Skiba-Szymanska (Toshiba Research Europe, UK)
Maxim Makhonin (University of Sheffield)
Evgeny Chekhovich (University of Sussex)
Andrey Nikolaenko (Paragraf)
Group photos
Group photos
2D Materials group on a sunny cold day in January 2024. Left to right: Alex, Panaiot, Oscar, Sasha, Sattar, Stephen, Sam, Dan, Paul, Xuerong, Oscar, Tim, Zara, Yadong
After the training session for the newly installed glovebox, June 2022. Left to right: Yadong, Xuerong, Charalambos, Paul.
First face-to-face group meeting after the lockdown on 22 July 2020 on the day when the labs in the Hicks building were finally open. Left to right: Charalambos, Daniel, Na, Sasha, Luca, Oscar, Panaiot, Tom, Mostafa and Armando.
Group meeting in July 2020.
Lab photo in January 2019. Left to right: top - Evgeny, Armando, middle - Sasha, Luca, Alessandro, Panaiot, bottom - Tom, Dan, Charalambos.
Group photo in January 2019. Left to right: Luca, Dan, Armando, Evgeny, Tom, Charalambos, Sasha, Alessandro.
Tillmann's farewell party, sometime in 2016. Immigrants were still welcome.. Left to right: Evgeny, Oleksandr, Sasha, Tillmann, Luca, Alessandro, Tom, Robert.
Historical picture from 2014, outside the lab on a sunny day. Left to right: Sasha, Hakan, Osvaldo, Tillmann, Robert, Le, Stefan.
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