ReisnerLab · Cambridge

Alumni

Former ReisnerLab researchers continuing their work across academia, industry and entrepreneurship.

Academic positionsEntrepreneurshipPhD alumni

Academic Careers

Alumni in Academic Positions

Former group members continuing their research and teaching careers at universities and research institutions.

Yongpeng Liu
2023-2026

Assistant Professor
University of Macau

Suvendu Karak
2023-2025

Ramanujan Fellow
IISER Trivandrum

Santiago Rodríguez-Jiménez
2020-2025

Ramon y Cajal and Ikerbasque Research Fellow
BCMaterials

Virgil Andrei
2017-2025

Assistant Professor
Nanyang Technological University

Sayan Kar
2021-2025

Assistant Professor
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

Lu Chen
2023-2025

Research Professor
Shanghai Advanced Research Institute

Motiar Rahaman
2019-2025

Assistant Professor
University of Liège

 

Lin Su
2021-2025

Lecturer
Queen Mary University of London

Tessel Bouwens
2022-2024

Assistant Professor
TU Delft

 

Bidyut B. Sarma
2022-2025

Staff Scientist
CNRS

 

Sam Cobb
2019-2024

Lecturer
University of Manchester

Stuart Linley
2020-2023

Assistant Professor
McMaster University

 

Chanon Pornrungroj
2018-2022

Lecturer
Chulalongkorn University

 

Erwin Lam
2020-2022

Staff Scientist
SwissCAT+, ETH

Carla Casadevall
2020-2022

Group Leader
ICIQ

Taylor Uekert
2017-2021

Staff Scientist
NREL

Charles E. Creissen
2015-2019

Senior Lecturer
Keele University

Christian Pichler
2019-2021

Assistant Professor
Technical University Vienna

Tengfei Li
2019-2021

Assistant Professor
Virginia Tech

Qian Wang
2018-2021

Full Professor
Nagoya University

Shafeer Kalathil
20218-2020

Senior Lecturer and Vice Chancellor’s Fellow
Northumbria University

Souvik Roy
2018-2020

Lecturer
University of Lincoln

Demetra Achilleos
2016-2019

Assistant Professor
University College Dublin

Bertrand Reuillard
2015-2018

CEA Researcher
CEA Grenoble

Nikolay Kornienko
2016-2018

Professor
University of Bonn

Jenny Zhang
2013-2018

Assistant Professor
University of Cambridge

William E. Robinson
2012-2018

Group Leader
Radboud University Nijmegen

 

Moritz Kühnel
2012-2017

Full Professor
Hohenheim University

Tarek Kandiel
2015-2016

Associate Professor
KFUPM

 

Chong-Yong Lee
2013-2015

Vice Chancellor’s Research Fellow
University of Wollongong

Christine A. Caputo
2012-2015

Associate Professor
University of New Hampshire

Hyun Seo Park
2013-2015

Principal Research Scientist
Korea Institute of Science & Technology

Yi-Hsuan Lai
2011-2015

Associate Professor
National Cheng Kung University

 

Ahu G. Dumanlı
2012-2014

Lecturer
The University of Manchester

Chia-Yu Lin
2012-2013

Professor
National Cheng Kung University

 

Masaru Kato
2010-2013

Associate Professor
Hokkaido University

 

Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurial Alumni

Former group members who have founded or co-founded companies and now hold senior leadership positions within them, translating scientific ideas into novel emerging technologies.

Andreas Wagner
Radical Dot

Co-founder / Co-CEO / CTO

Mark Bajada
R2A Labs

Scientific co-founder

Michael Stanton
Ki Hydrogen

Co-founder / CTO / CSO

Irina Gostimskaya
DNA Ascendancy

Co-founder

David Wakerley
Dioxycle

Co-founder / CTO

Sarah Lamaison
Dioxycle

Co-founder / CEO

Dirk Mersch
CamIn

CEO

Doctoral Alumni

PhD Alumni

Researchers who completed their doctoral training as members of the ReisnerLab.

37. Ariffin M. Annuar
2026

TBA

36. David Vahey
2026

TBA

35. Kay K. Kwarteng
2026

TBA

34. Dongseok Kim
2025

Sustainable photocatalysis using carbon-based materials through interfacial and solvent engineering

33. Marion Short
2025

Semi-biological domino catalysis using acetate- and propionate-producing microbes

32. Celine W. S. Yeung
2025

Photoelectrochemical fuel synthesis using organic semiconductors with (bio)molecular catalysts

31. Rachel Egan
2025

Electrochemical wiring of cyanobacteria to anodes using polymers towards biohybrid devices for solar-chemical production

30. Carolina Pulignani
2024

Immobilising and interfacing poly(heptazine imide) ionic carbon nitride for photoelectrochemical fuel and chemical production

29. Ava Lage
2024

Carbon dots as sustainable photocatalysts for organic synthesis

 

28. Subhajit Bhattacharjee
2023

Photoelectrochemical and Chemoenzymatic Reforming for Sustainable Fuel Production

27. Chanon Pornrungroj
2022

Enhancing solar fuel synthesis via complementary approaches: round-the-clock operation and heat utilisation

26. Vivek Badiani
2022

Tailoring the redox enzyme-material interface for enhanced electro- and photocatalytic fuel systems

25. Arjun Vijeta
2021

Carbon Nitride as a Heterogeneous Photocatalyst for Organic Transformations

24. Esther E. Moore
2021

Semi-Artificial Photoelectrochemistry through Perovskite Integration and Elucidation of the Local Environment

23. Daniel Antón-García
2021

Tailored Diketopyrrolopyrrole-Based Organic Dyes in Photoelectrochemical Cells for Solar Fuel Synthesis

22. Constantin Sahm
2021

ZnSe Quantum Dots as a Platform for Solar Fuels Synthesis

21. Taylor Uekert
2021

Plastic and Mixed Waste as Feedstocks for Solar-driven H2 production

20. Andreas Wagner
2020

Electrochemical CO2 Reduction on Cucurbit[n]uril Modified Gold

19. Mark Bajada
2020

Electrochemical and Photocatalytic Flow Strategies for Sustainable Substrate Oxidation

18. Virgil Andrei
2020

Photoelectrochemical Devices with Lead Halide Perovskite and Bismuth Vanadate Light Absorbers for Unassisted Solar Fuel Synthesis

17. Xin Fang
2019

Integrating Photosystem II and Electroactive Bacteria with Three-Dimensional Electrodes for Semi-Artificial Photosynthesis

16. Katarzyna Sokol
2019

Photoelectrochemical Tandem Cells with Enzymes Wired to Hierarchically-Structured Electrodes for Solar Fuel Synthesis

15. Charles Creissen
2019

Solar Driven Hydrogen Generation with Dye-Sensitised CuCrO2 Photocathodes

14. Hatice Kasap
2019

Carbon Nitride for Solar H2 Production Coupled to Organic Chemical Transformations

13. Jane Leung
2018

Molecular Hybrid Photocathodes Based on Silicon for Solar Fuel Synthesis

12. Janina Willkomm
2017

Rationally Designed Molecular Catalysts and Dyes Co-Immobilised on Semiconductors for Solar H2 Evolution

11. Dave Wakerley
2017

Advancing Sustainable H2 Generation through O2-Tolerant Catalysis and the Photoreforming of Biomass

10. William Robinson
2017

Electrokinetic Characterisation of Formate Dehydrogenase H from E. coli

9. Georgina Hutton
2017

Surface-Functionalised Carbon Dots as Versatile Light Harvesters for Solar Driven Catalysis

8. Tim Rosser
2017

Immobilised molecular catalysts for photoelectrochemical solar fuels synthesis

7. Benjamin Martindale
2017

Carbon Dot–Molecular Catalyst Hybrid Systems for Artificial Photosynthesis

6. Manuela Gross
2016

Electro– and Photocatalytic Generation of H2 in Water Using Nickel Diphosphine Complexes

5. Nicholas Paul
2015

Intermolecular Photophysics of Photosystem II Core Complexes at Protein-Nanomaterial Interfaces

4. Yi-Hsuan Lai
2015

Nanocomposite Materials Generated from Single Source Precursor Chemistry for Solar Water Splitting

3. Dirk Mersch
2015

Wiring of Photosystem II to Hydrogenase for Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting

2. Claire Wombwell
2014

Structural Models of the Active Site of the [NiFeSe] Hydrogenase

1. Fezile Lakadamyalı
2014

Solar Light Driven Hydrogen Evolution with Cobaloximes Modified on Dye-Sensitised TiO2