Former and current students and postdocs
The photo here is taken from the shiny new Stephenson Building, home of Engineering at Newcastle University. (My office is in Merz Court, which was opened by Prime Minister, Harold Wilson in the sixties.) Front row (left to right): Mandy, Dylan, and Adriana. Middle row: Bassam and me. Back row: Abdulraheem and Joshua.
My first Sheffield PhD students were Lorena Ruiz-Pérez, Johann de Silva, Zhang (Jason) Zhenyu, Ana Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Rita La Spina, Matt Mears, Yu Pen, Maryam Raftari, Ana Morales, Ateyyah AL-Baradi, Youmna Mouhamad, Sarah Canning, Chris Clarkson, Amy Hall, and Latifah Alfaid. Later arrivals were Alessandra Petroli, Eleanor Dougherty, Jamie Blakeman, Emily Hall, Tom Kennelly, and Jozra Garrido. Ryan Jackson joined as an MPhil student, and I co-supervised Fabio Pontecchiani and William Seddon. My last Sheffield student, Emilia Hudzik started her lockdown-affected PhD in 2018.
In Newcastle, Rachel Lee and Joshua Cunday, Bassam Aljohani, and Abudulraheem Alrefai are taking their doctorates under my supervision. Dylan Clark is the most recent addition to the group. I am also co-supervising Fengyi (Mandy) Wang and Hosni Elwan, the latter of whom has since finished his thesis. Finally, a remote location student, Mai Ibrahim did her PhD in Saudi Arabia under the joint supervision programme with King Abdulaziz University. Mai started in Sheffield, but transferred to Newcastle to complete her PhD.
My first postdoc in Sheffield was Mike Tomlinson, who was quickly followed by Pierre Burgos, and Steve Carter. Jason also returned as a postdoc before Rachel Walton, arrived. Ana returned to do a postdoc in 2013 before, like all good people, leaving for Newcastle. Dr Adriana Sierra-Romero is a postdoctoral research associate in my group in Newcastle.
Last updated in August 2025.