RUMBLES RESEARCH GROUP, IMPERIAL COLLEGE 1988-2000
Chetan Parmar
Chetan graduated from Imperial College in 1997 with a first class honours degree in Chemistry with a year in Industry.
He was awarded an EPSRC CASE studentship with KODAK UK and started his PhD in October 1997, working on the photophysics of photographic dye fade mechanisms.He was awarded his PhD in 2001 entitled:
'Spectroscopic and light stability behaviour of photographic dyes at oil-aqueous interfaces'
Chetan now works with Arthur Anderson.E-mail: ck_parmar@yahoo.co.uk
Paul Miller
Paul graduated with a first class honours degree in Chemistry from Imperial College in 1991 and then spent 4 years working as a research assistant for Professor Alastair Gebbie.
Sponsored by the Chemistry department, Paul started his PhD in January 1996. Paul was awarded his PhD in 2000 entitled:'Luminescence studies of molecular materials'
Paul now works for QMC instruments.
Tel: 020 7415 3757
Fax: 020 8981 8337
Web: qmciworks.ph.qmw.ac.uk E-mail: daguvna@hotmail.com
Melanie deSouza
Melanie graduated with an upper second class honours degree in Chemistry from Imperial College in 1996, and was awarded the UNILEVER prize for top Physical Chemistry research project.
Funded on an EPSRC quota award, she completed her PhD in 2000, entitled:'The photophysics of phenylene vinylene molecules and polymers'
Mel is continuing in the group as a post doc
Tel: 020 7594 5808 E-mail: m.souza@imperial.ac.uk
Andrew deMello
Andrew gained a first class honours degree in Chemistry from Imperial College in 1991.
He was awarded an EPSRC CASE award with KODAK UK LTD.
In 1995 he obtained his Ph.D. entitled:'Evanescent Wave Spectroscopic Studies at Dielectric Interfaces'
Andrew did a post doc with Professor Richard Mathies at UC Berkeley and was then appointed to a lectureship in the School of Chemical Sciences at the University of East Anglia. He is now back at Imperial College as the Zeneca lecturer of analytical science in the analytical centre.
Telephone: 020 7594 5820 Fax: 020 7594 5833
E-mail: a.demello@imperial.ac.uk
Website: www.achem.ic.ac.uk/demello/
Chris Collison
Chris gained an upper second class honours degree in Chemistry from Imperial College in 1992.
He was awarded an EPSRC CASE award with the Electro-optics company, PHOTEK UK LTD. In 1996 he obtained his Ph.D. entitled:'Photoluminescence Studies of Excited States in Poly (p-phenylene vinylene) Derivatives'.
Chris now works for Richardson Grating Laboratory in Rochester, New York, USA.
Tel: +1 (716) 248 4244 E-mail: Collison@gratinglab.com Web: www.gratinglab.com
Gary Keogh
Gary gained a first class honours degree in Chemistry from Imperial College in 1992. He was awarded an EPSRC quota award and in 1996 obtained his Ph.D. entitled:
'The Application of Coherent Raman Scattering to Molecular Photonics'
He now works as a freelance IT contractor.
Telephone: 0958 225530 E-mail: g.keogh@mdkinnovation.demon.co.uk
Joanne Lloyd (nee Clark)
Jo gained a first class honours degree in Chemistry from Imperial College in 1993. She was awarded an EPSRC quota award and in 1997 obtained her Ph.D entitled:
'Laser Cooling in the Condensed Phase'.
Jo then moved to Unilever Research in Port Sunlight. In October 1999 she took a post in the cabinet office and she now works at the Chemical Industries Association as manager of the product & Sector Groups.
Telephone: 020 7963 6729 Fax: 020 7834 8586
E-mail: LloydJ@CIA.org.uk
Ben Crystall
Ben gained his first degree in Applied Physics BSc in 1985 at Cranfield University. He completed his PhD under the supervision of Professor Lord Porter at The Royal Institution in 1989. He was a post doc for Professor Porter during the move to Imperial College, followed by a period with Professor David Phillips. In 1992 he joined the group as a PDRA. In 1996 he left to join the staff at New Scientist as a freelance writer. Work email: Ben.Crystall@rbi.co.uk
Tel: 020 7331 2732
fax: 020 7331 2740
Address: New Scientist, 151 Wardour St., London W1V 4BN
Brad Stone
Brad gained his first degree from University of Illinois, Chicago and his Ph.D. at Indiana University, Bloomington with Professor Charles Parmenter. He was a PDRA for Professor Ed. Lee at UC Irvine, Ca. and then moved to San Jose State University, California, USA where he is a Professor of Chemistry. Brad was an academic visitor in 1994. Telephone: +1 408 924 4938
E-mail: bstone@jupiter.sjsu.edu
Ron Christensen
Ron was an academic visitor from Bowdoin College in Maine, USA. He graduated from Harvard in 1972 with a PhD, that was supervised by the late professor Bryan Kohler. He has been a member of staff at Bowdoin since 1976 rising through the ranks to full professor in 1988. Over the years he has been associated with the Riksuniversiteit in Leiden the Netherlands; the Royal Institution in London; the University of Melbourne in Australia; the Institute for Molecular Science in Okazaki, Japan. He has a very distinguished past and was at Imperial from January to December of 1998 and he has now returned to Bowdoin. Telephone: +1 207 725 8203
Address: Department of Chemistry, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine 04011, USA
Website: http://www.bowdoin.edu/~rchriste/index.html
E-Mail: rchriste@bowdoin.edu
David Russell
David gained his first degree in Physics at the University of Strathclyde in 1993. In 1997 he completed a Ph.D. in solid-state physics at Strathclyde's Optical Materials Research Centre under the supervision of Prof. Brian Henderson and Dr. Keith Holliday. He worked on an EPSRC-funded project on conjugated polymers.
David now works as a post doc with Drs. David Klug and Ian Mercer in the department.
E-mail: d.l.russell@imperial.ac.uk
Bauke Heeg
Bauke joined the group as a PDRA after completing his Ph.D. with David Klenerman in Cambridge. He worked on an EPSRC-funded project to investigate the phenomenon of condensed phase laser cooling. He is now research scientist with Metrolaser Inc., in Irvine California continuing the development of an all-optical refirgerator. Tel: (949) 553-0688, ext.236
Fax: (949) 553-0495
E-mail: bheeg@metrolaserinc.com
Laura Magnani
Laura graduated with a first class honours degree in Chemistry from Imperial College in 1994.
She was funded on an EPSRC quota award and started her PhD in October 1994. Laura inestigated the solvato- and thermo-chromic properties of substituted polythiophenes and poly(phenylene vinylene)s using steady-state and picosecond, time-resolved luminescence spectroscopy.
Laura is now working for Accenture.E-mail: laura.magnani@accenture.com
Julia Elliott
Julia graduated with a first class honours degree in Chemistry from Birkbeck College in 1994 and was awarded the GEO prize for analytical chemistry, all while working full-time for the Metropolitan Police Forensic Science Labs.
She was funded on an EPSRC quota award and started her PhD in October 1994. Julia developed evanescent wave-induced fluorescence spectroscopy as a tool for observing molecules at surfaces and interfaces.
Julia is now back working for MPFSL.
Julia successfully defended her thesis in February 2002. E-mail: jae@fss.org.uk