McKenna Materials Modelling Group

Keith McKenna
Professor of Computational and Theoretical Physics
School of Physics, Engineering and Technology
University of York

Jack Fawcett-Houghton
Photocatalyst for H₂ production: in operando atomic studies
(Joint supervision with Vlado Lazarov and Richard Douthwaite)

Tom Lynch
Crack-tolerant materials for next-generation photovoltaics

Maddy Marnell
Electrically Conductive Porous Coordination Polymers and Metal-Organic Frameworks
(Joint supervision with Alyssa-Jennifer Avestro)

Stephen Rowley
Discovery of new sustainable permanent magnets for electric motors and generators
(Joint supervision with Stuart Cavill and Xing Zhao)

Wayne Lack, PhD student (2019-2025)
Tom Richards-Hlabangana, PhD student (2019-2025)
Ieuan Wilkes, PhD student (2021-2025)
Alex Armstrong, PhD student (2020-2024)
Junwen Yin, Visiting student from Beijing Computational Science Research Center (2021-2022)
James Quirk, PhD student (2017-2021) - Now a Research Fellow at University of Newcastle, UK
Adam Kerrigan, PhD student (2016-2021) - Now an Experimental Officer at University of York, UK
Chuanjia Tong, Research Fellow (2018-2021) - Now a Researcher at Central South University, Changsha, China
John Carey, Research Fellow (2017-2020) - Now a Technical Support Scientist at Intelsius
Razak Elmaslmane, PhD student (2016-2019) - Now a Technical Analyst at FlexTrade, London
Shih-Hsuan (Steven) Hung, PhD student (2015-2018) - Now a Research and Development Scientist at Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, Taiwan
Claudio Padilha, Research Fellow (2016-2018) - Now at LNNano, Sao Paolo, Brazil
Jonathan Bean, PhD student (2013-2017) - CEO and co-founder of Materials Nexus
Samir Abdelouahed, Research Fellow (2014-2015)

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