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PhD examiner

A collection of 10 issues

PhD examiner for Zizhuo Liu

Patrick was external examiner for Zizhuo Liu, a PhD candidate in Prof. Huiyun Liu‘s group at University College London. Zizhuo defended his thesis entitled “High-performance III-V Quantum structures and devices grown on Si substrates”.

PhD examiner for Vasilis Georgiadis

Patrick was the internal examiner for Vasilis Georgiadis, a member of Dr Darren Graham‘s research group in Manchester. Vasilis defended his thesis entitled “Terahertz-driven manipulation of electron bunches using dielectric-lined waveguides“.

PhD examiner for Arelo Tanoh

Patrick acted as external examiner for the PhD viva of Arelo Tanoh (a student in the Rao group at the University of Cambridge). Arelo defended his thesis, entited “LUMINESCENT HARNESSING OF 2D TRANSITION METAL DICHALCOGENIDE EXCITONS”.

Viva in Oxford: Alice Smith

Patrick served as external examiner for the DPhil viva of Alice Smith (part of the Donal Bradley research group) at the University of Oxford, alongside Prof. Arzhang Ardavan as internal examiner.

Viva in Manchester

Patrick was the internal examiner for (Jack) Chun-Ren Ke, a student in the group of Prof. Wendy Flavell who has worked on surface science of hybrid-perovskite optoelectronic materials. The external examiner was Prof. Sven Schroeder of the University of Leeds.

Viva in Manchester

Patrick was the internal PhD examiner for Henry Maguire in the Nazir group at the University of Manchester. Henry submitted his thesis on “Optically driven nanostructures with strong vibronic coupling“, and Dr Alex Chin was the external examiner.

Viva in Cambridge

Patrick was the external examiner for Limeng Ni, a PhD student in the group of Akshay Rao at the University of Cambridge. Limeng was examined on her thesis exploring energy transfer in 2D perovskite materials, nanoparticles, and lanthenide-containing materials with a focus on singlet fission and triplet-triplet annihilation.

Tim Crothers - PhD viva in Oxford

Patrick acted as external examiner for Tim Crothers, a student with Prof. Laura Herz in Physics at Oxford University. Tim defended his thesis on Charge-carrier transport and recombination dynamics in metal halide perovskites.

PhD Viva in Lancaster

Patrick acted as external PhD examiner for Hayfaa Alradhi, a student in the group of Dr Qiandong Zhuang in the Physics Department at Lancaster University.

PhD Viva in Nottingham

Patrick acted as external PhD examiner for James Kerfoot, a student in the group of Prof. Peter Beton in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Nottingham.