Athena SWAN

Dr. Stephen Hickey

Stephen is Reader in Physical Chemistry in the School of Chemistry and Bioscience at the University of Bradford. He was awarded a PhD in 2000 (University of Bristol) for work on charge transport in quantum dot based electrodes. He spent five years as a post-doctoral fellow, two years with Prof. Daniel vanmaekelbergh (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands) and three with Prof. Horst Weller (University of Hamburg, Germany). His research goals as a postdoctoral fellow was to investigate charge transport in both metal and semiconductor nanoparticles. In 2006 he was appointed as a researcher in the group of Alexander Eychmüller at the Technische Universität Dresden (Dresden, Germany). From 2012 to 2013 he was also the Walton Research Fellow (Visiting Professor) at Trinity College Dublin. In 2014 he moved to the University of Bradford to take up the position of Reader in Physical Chemistry. His research interests can be divided into two main areas: (1) Synthesis and Applications of Metal and Semiconductor Nanostructures and (2) Charge Carrier and Phononic Transport in Assemblies of Nanomaterials. He has significant expertise in the synthesis of nanomaterials as well as their optical, electrochemical and optoelectrochemical characterisation. He also takes an interest in the production of hybrid functional nanomaterials and metamaterials composed of nanosized building blocks.

Name: Dr. Maria Katsikogianni

Research Interests:

Design of bio-inspired multifunctional materials with non-fouling/antimicrobial properties for a number of applications; medical, environmental

Characterisation Expertise:

Material physicochemical and mechanical characterisation; contact angle measurements and surface energy evaluation, Scanning Electron Microscopy and Atomic Force Microscopy, roughness measurements, thermal analysis, drug release profiles

Orcid iD.: 0000-0002-1560-3993

Name: Dr. Tom Swift

Research Interests:

Functional polymers, stimuli responsive materials, material properties and applications.

Characterisation Expertise:

Gel permeation chromatography (GPC); Diffusion Ordered NMR; MicroDSC; Fluorescence Spectroscopy; Time Ordered Anisotropic Fluorescence Decay

Orcid iD.: 0000-0002-8616-8458

Study of human endothelial cell genetic and functional responses in health and inflammatory disease (atherosclerosis, diabetes, cancer). These cells lining the blood vessels play a key role in acute inflammation in health and chronic inflammation in disease. Low grade chronic inflammation at the blood vessel wall results in lesion formation and narrowing of the vessels (atherosclerotic plaques). Therefore cardiovascular disease and diabetes are key disorders where endothelial cells are dysfunctional.  Skin disease such as psoriasis also have a vascular component. Endothelial cells also have the ability to sprout and develop new blood vessels (angiogenesis), which is physiologically important but can stimulate metastasis in cancer. Intra-cellular signalling pathways important in endothelial cell proliferation, migration and apoptosis are currently under study in the Graham laboratory.

Orcid: 0000-0002-1810-3927

Twitter: @doctoranneg

Name: Dr. Nadeem Javid

Research Interests:

Supramolecular Chemistry, Bio-nanotechnology, Peptidic Hydrogel Scaffolds for Tissue Regeneration, Catalysis, Green Routes for Nano particle Synthesis, Drug Delivery and Crystallization of Pharmaceutical Ingredients in nano-scaffolds.

Characterisation Expertise:

Small angle x-ray scattering (SAXS), Small angle neutron scattering (SANs), Static and Dynamic Light scattering (SLS/DLS), Fourier-transform Infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy and Raman Spectroscopy.

Orcid iD.: 0000-0002-6413-5014