{"id":110,"date":"2014-07-12T21:14:01","date_gmt":"2014-07-12T21:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/wirth\/?page_id=110"},"modified":"2025-06-13T20:55:41","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T20:55:41","slug":"former-group-members","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/wirth\/former-group-members\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Group Members"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Former Visiting Professors:<\/h3>\r\n<p>Prof. Andrew N. French , Albion College, USA (visiting professor 1999, 2001, 2003-2004)<br \/>Prof. Michio Iwaoka \/ Tokai University, Japan (April-September 2008)<br \/>Prof. Umar Farooq, COMSATS, Abottabad, Pakistan (September-December 2013)<br \/>Prof. Atul Goel, CDRI, Lucknow, India (March-July 2015)<\/p>\r\n<h3>Former Postdoctoral Students:<\/h3>\r\n<p>Dr. Klaus J. Kulicke, University of Basel, Switzerland (postdoctoral student 1996)<br \/>Dr. Claudio Santi, University of Perugia, Italy (postdoctoral student 1998)<br \/>Dr. Sandrine Piguel, Toronto, Canada (postdoctoral student 2000)<br \/>Dr. Christian Becker, Universit\u00e4t Mainz, Germany (postdoctoral student 2004\/2005)<br \/>Dr. Osamu Niyomura, Kitasato University, Japan (postdoctoral student 2004\/2005)<br \/>Dr. Robert D. Richardson, Cambridge University, UK (postdoctoral student 2006\/2007)<br \/>Dr. Umar Farooq, COMSATS, Abottabad, Pakistan (Postdoctoral student 2008\/2009)<br \/>Dr. Azhar ul Haq Ali Shah, Bannu University, Pakistan (Postdoctoral student 2008\/2009)<br \/>Dr. Sascha Sch\u00e4fer, Universit\u00e4t Stuttgart, Germany (Postdoctoral student 2009\/2010)<br \/>Dr. Munawwer Rasheed, University of Karachi, Pakistan (Postdoctoral student 2010\/2011)<br \/>Dr. Fateh V. Singh, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India (Postdoctoral student 2010-2012)<br \/>Dr. Ravi Kumar, Kurukshetra University, India (Postdoctoral researcher 2012)<br \/>Dr. Kenta Arai, Tokai University, Japan (Postdoctoral researcher 2013\/2014)<br \/>Dr. Pushpak Mizar, North Eastern Hill University, India (Postdoctoral researcher 2012-2014)<br \/>Dr. Nida Ambreen, Karachi, Pakistan, (Postdoctoral researcher 2012-2014)<br \/>Dr. Mike Brown, University of Warwick, UK (Postdoctoral researcher 2012-2015)<br \/>Dr. Tomohiro Ichitsuka, Tsukuba University, Japan (Postdoctoral researcher 2016)<br \/>Dr. Ravi Kumar, Kurukshetra University, India (Postdoctoral researcher 2014-2016)<br \/>Dr. Taifur Rahman, Queens University, Belfast, Ireland\u00a0(Postdoctoral researcher 2016-2017)<br \/>Dr. Xiaoping Tang, University of Southampton, UK\u00a0(Postdoctoral researcher 2015-2017)<br \/>Dr. Abdul Alhadi, Cardiff University, UK\u00a0(Postdoctoral researcher 2017)<br \/>Dr. Wenchao Gao, Taiyuan University of Technology, China (Postdoctoral researcher 2017-2018)<br \/>(name removed upon request), (COFUND fellow 2016-2019)<br \/>Dr. Mohamed Elsherbini, Mansoura University, Egypt (Postdoctoral researcher 2016-2019)<br \/>Dr. Donya Valikhani, Graz University, Austria (Postdoctoral researcher 2018-2019)<br \/>Dr. Ziyue Xiong, Queens University Belfast, Ireland (Postdoctoral researcher 2017-2020)<br \/>Dr. Huaiyuan Zhang, Lanzhou Petrochemical University of Vocational Technology, China (2020-2022)<br \/>Dr. Yu Wang, UCL, United Kingdom (2021-2022)<br \/>Dr. Tuhin Patra, University of M\u00fcnster, Germany (2020-2022)<br \/>Dr. Tapas Pradhan (2023-2024)<br \/>Dr. Md. Nasim Khan (2020-2024)<br \/>Dr. Rasool Babaahmadi (2022-2024)<\/p>\r\n<h3>Former Ph.D. Students:<\/h3>\r\n<p>Dr. Gianfranco Fragale (Ph.D. thesis 1998)<br \/>Dr. Urs H. Hirt (Ph.D. thesis 2000)<br \/>Dr. Lars Uehlin (Ph.D. thesis 2002)<br \/>Dr. J\u00fcrgen Haas (Ph.D. thesis 2003)<br \/>Dr. Matthew Cox (Ph.D. thesis 2004)<br \/>Dr. Maria Arrica (Ph.D. thesis 2005)<br \/>Dr. Shaista S. Khokhar (Ph.D. thesis 2005)<br \/>Dr. Stewart Bissmire (Ph.D. thesis 2006)<br \/>Dr. Danielle Browne (Ph.D. thesis 2008)<br \/>Dr. Batoul Ahmed-Omer (Ph.D. thesis 2008)<br \/>Dr. Sabine Altermann (Ph.D. thesis 2008)<br \/>Dr. Keri Page (Ph.D. thesis 2009)<br \/>Liwei Zhao (2008-2010, PhD student from East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China)<br \/>Omar Elhady (2008-2010, PhD student from Sohag University, Egypt)<br \/>Dr. Zulfiqar A. Khan (PhD thesis 2010)<br \/>Dr. Sohail A. Shazad (PhD thesis 2010)<br \/>Dr. Diana M. Freudendahl (PhD thesis 2010)<br \/>Dr. Bukola Ojo (PhD thesis 2012)<br \/>Dr. Umar Farid (PhD thesis 2013)<br \/>Dr. Kevin Watts (PhD thesis 2014)<br \/>Aisha Saddiqa, Faisalabad, Pakistan (visiting PhD student 2014)<br \/>Dr. Guillaume Marie (PhD thesis 2014)<br \/>Dr. Richard Edwards (PhD thesis 2015)<br \/>Dr. Alastair Baker (PhD thesis 2015)<br \/>Dr. Simon M\u00fcller (PhD thesis 2016)<br \/>Dr. Florence Malmedy (PhD thesis 2016)<br \/>Dr. Matthew Hutchings (PhD thesis 2017)<br \/>Dr. Ana Folgueiras-Amador (PhD thesis 2018)<br \/>Dr. Filipa Silva (PhD thesis 2019)<br \/>Dr. Jihan Qurban (PhD thesis 2019)<br \/>Dr. Tobias Hokamp (PhD thesis 2020)<br \/>Dr. Micol Santi (PhD thesis 2020)<br \/>Dr. Marina Raynbird Yamamoto (PhD thesis 2021)<br \/>Dr. Haifa Alharbi (PhD thesis 2021)<br \/>Dr. Nasser Amri (PhD thesis 2021)<br \/>Dr. Paulina Genzels (PhD thesis 2022)<br \/>Dr. Jakob Seitz (PhD thesis 2022)<br \/>Dr. Bethan Winterson (PhD thesis 2024)<br \/>Dr. Rawiyah Alkahtani (PhD thesis 2024)<br \/>Dr. Ohud Alzaidi (PhD thesis 2024)<\/p>\r\n<h3>Former Research Students:<\/h3>\r\n<p>Raul Montoro<br \/>Yan Gao<br \/>Johan Brandt<br \/>Simon Elmore<\/p>\r\n<h3>Former Diplom\/MChem\/Visiting Students:<\/h3>\r\n<p>Sandra Lanz (diploma work 1994)<br \/>Sara H\u00e4uptli (diploma work 1996)<br \/>Michele Leuenberger (diploma work 1997)<br \/>Katrin Probst (scientific coworker 1997\/98)<br \/>Andreas S. Biland (diploma work 1998)<br \/>Martin F. H. Schuster (diploma work 1998)<br \/>Franz W. B\u00fcrgler (diploma work 1999)<br \/>Rachel Hector, Albion College, USA (visiting student 1999)<br \/>Andrea Studer (diploma work 2000)<br \/>Danielle Willsie, Albion College, USA (visiting student 2000)<br \/>Sarah Burpee, Albion College, USA (visiting student 2000)<br \/>Dr. Martin Spichty, Universti\u00e4t Basel (PhD thesis 2002)<br \/>Jacqueline Altermatt (diploma work 2001)<br \/>Amanda Boye, Albion College, USA (visiting student 2001)<br \/>Dominik Meyer, Universti\u00e4t Basel (visiting student 2001)<br \/>Crystal K. Ingison, Albion College, USA (visiting student 2002)<br \/>Sabine Altermann, Universit\u00e4t Kaiserlautern, Germany (visiting student 2002)<br \/>Carmela Aprile, University di Palermo (visiting student 2002\/2003)<br \/>Joseph Heinzelmann, Albion College, USA (visiting student 2003)<br \/>Craig Streu, Albion College, USA (visiting student 2003)<br \/>Christine Richter, Universit\u00e4t Kaiserlautern, Germany (visiting student 2003\/4)<br \/>Lars Tr\u00f6ndlin, Basel University (visiting student 2005)<br \/>Masih Bahar, M\u00fcnster University (visiting student 2005)<br \/>Neil Forster, Albion College, USA (visiting student 2005)<br \/>Magalie Desaize, Univerity of Rennes, France (visiting student 2006)<br \/>Shauna Paradine, Albion College, USA (visiting student 2006)<br \/>Sara Simmons, Albion College, USA (visiting student 2006)<br \/>Jameel M. Zayed, Cardiff University, UK (summer student 2006)<br \/>Simon Kervyn, Universit\u00e4t Namur, Belgium (visiting student 2007)<br \/>Gesa P\u00e4hler, Universit\u00e4t Mainz, Germany (visiting student 2007)<br \/>Ruth K. Schmidt, Universit\u00e4t M\u00fcnster, Germany (visiting student 2007)<br \/>Tiphanie Millet, ESCOM, France (visiting student 2007)<br \/>Tina Loh\u00f6lter, Universit\u00e4t Bonn, Germany (visiting student 2007\/8)<br \/>Frank Bohland, Universit\u00e4t Mainz, Germany (visiting student 2007\/8)<br \/>Shazia Shakir, Cardiff University, UK (M.Chem. student 2007\/8)<br \/>Ahmed Hammami, ESCOM, France (visiting student 2008)<br \/>Matthieu Perillaud, ESCOM, France (visiting student 2008)<br \/>Margerita Villegas, ESCOM, France (visiting student 2008)<br \/>Emmanuelle Viry, ENSCM, France (visiting student 2008)<br \/>Naila Choudhary, ESCOM, France (visiting student 2008)<br \/>Claire Venin, ENSIACET, France (visiting student 2008)<br \/>Azzedine Bouleghlimat, Cardiff University (summer student 2008)<br \/>Jesnie Barry (M. Chem. student 2008\/9)<br \/>Guillaume Marie, Nantes, France (visiting student 2009)<br \/>Christoph Rosorius, M\u00fcnster, Germany (visiting student 2009)<br \/>Aymeric Cervi, ESCOM, France (visiting student 2009)<br \/>Hobalah Bouzid, ENSIACET, France (visiting student 2009)<br \/>Clothilde Vivant, ESCOM, France (visiting student 2009)<br \/>Laure Hannebique, ESCOM, France (visiting student 2009)<br \/>Olivier Chabrand, Le Mans, France (visiting student 2010)<br \/>Julien Espace, Nantes, France (visiting student 2010)<br \/>Debasish Manna, IISc Bangalore, India (visiting student 2010)<br \/>Jacquemine Coquio, ESCOM, France (visiting student 2010)<br \/>Laetitia Baudelet, ESCOM, France (visiting student 2010)<br \/>Lena Albers, Universit\u00e4t Oldenburg, Germany (visiting student 2010)<br \/>Rosalia Di Lorenzo, Perugia, Italy (visiting student 2010)<br \/>Elisabetta Rongoni, Perugia, Italy (visiting student 2010\/11)<br \/>Logan Audiger, Nantes, France (visiting student 2011)<br \/>Gregory Bonnamain, Nantes, France (visiting student 2011)<br \/>Pierre-Henri Belin, ESCOM, France (visiting student 2011)<br \/>Romain Claveau, ESCOM, France (visiting student 2011)<br \/>Malika Guerch, ESCOM, France (visiting student 2011)<br \/>Sandra Kaul, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany (visiting student 2011)<br \/>Florence Malmedy, Namur, Belgium (visiting student 2012)<br \/>Teresa Sementa, Salerno, Italy (visiting student 2012)<br \/>Elena Gabriele, Perugia, Italy (visiting student 2012)<br \/>Christina Mrosek, Mainz, Germany (visiting student 2012)<br \/>Marcelo Godoi, Florian\u00f3polis, Brazil (visiting student 2012)<br \/>Ana Folgueiras, Granada, Spain (visiting student 2013)<br \/>Aragorn Laverny, ENCPB, France (visiting student 2013)<br \/>Martin S\u00f6ftje, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany (visiting student 2013)<br \/>Fabian Uhrner, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany (visiting student 2013)<br \/>Erika G\u00fcnther, Potsdam, Germany (visiting student 2013)<br \/>Michele Burini, Perugia, Italy (visiting student 2013)<br \/>Mohammad El-Sherbini, Mansoura, Egypt (visiting student 2013)<br \/>Ilaria Pitotti, Perugia, Italy (visiting student 2013\/4)<br \/>Samuel Attah Egu, Nsukka, Nigeria, (visiting student 2014)<br \/>Rebecca Niebuhr, Bremen, Germany (visiting student 2014)<br \/>Svenja Ehrmann, Berlin, Germany (visiting student 2014)<br \/>Alessandra Burrelli, Perugia, Italy \u00a0(visiting student 2014)<br \/>Marion Delorme, Montpellier, France\u00a0(visiting student 2014)<br \/>Wilke de Vries, M\u00fcnster, Germany (visiting student 2014)<br \/>Kirara Yamaguchi, Gifu, Japan (visiting student 2014\/15)<br \/>Anne Fellenzer, Mainz, Germany (visiting student 2014\/15)<br \/>S\u00e9bastien Guilbaud, Toulouse, France\u00a0(visiting student 2015)<br \/>Micol Santi, Perugia, Italy (visiting student 2015)<br \/>C\u00e9lina G\u00e9not, Paris, France (visiting student 2015)<br \/>Tobias Hokamp, M\u00fcnster, Germany (visiting student 2015)<br \/>Daniel Hochst\u00e4dt, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany (visiting student 2015\/16)<br \/>Kai Phillips, Mainz, Germany (visiting student 2015\/16)<br \/>Natalia Soldateva, Tomsk, Russia (visiting student 2015\/16 and 2016, 2017)<br \/>Jonathan Marley, Cardiff (MChem 2016)<br \/>Yuri Fernandez, Cardiff (MChem 2016)<br \/>Ana\u00efs Coffinet, France (visiting student 2016)<br \/>Agatha Pacu\u0142a, Torun, Poland (visiting student 2016)<br \/>Fatima Musa, Nsukka, Nigeria, (visiting student 2016)<br \/>Rosalia Insalata, Perugia, Italy (visiting student 2016)<br \/>Alexander Uttry,\u00a0M\u00fcnster, Germany (visiting student 2016)<br \/>Thomas Ellis (MChem 2017)<br \/>Adam Long (MChem 2017)<br \/>Marina Yamamoto (MChem 2017)<br \/>Xiangyang Qian, Xiamen, China (visiting student 2017)<br \/>Jarno Poelakker, Enschede, Netherlands (visiting student 2017)<br \/>Laurence Botti, ENCPB, France (visiting student 2017)<br \/>Rossana Cicala, Perugia, Italy (visiting student 2017)<br \/>Adele Iannelli, Perugia, Italy (visiting student 2017)<br \/>Stefano Sdogati, Urbino, Italy (visiting student 2017)<br \/>Alena Storm, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany (visiting student 2017)<br \/>Guilherme Martins, Santa Maria, Brasil (visiting student 2017)<br \/>Niklas Adebar, Bielefeld, Germany (visiting student 2017)<br \/>Saira Khatoon, Pakistan (visiting student 2017)<br \/>Frauke Weidlich, M\u00fcnster, Germany (visiting student 2017)<br \/>Tomas Hardwick (MChem 2018)<br \/>Weronika Michalska (MChem 2018)<br \/>Matthew Tailby (MChem 2018)<br \/>Muhammad Islam, Multan, Pakistan (visiting student 2018)<br \/>Leonardo Mollari, Perugia, Italy (visiting student 2018)<br \/>Alexander Sandvo\u00df,\u00a0M\u00fcnster, Germany (visiting student 2018)<br \/>Niklas Beims,\u00a0Bremen, Germany (visiting student 2019)<br \/>Dominic Sear (MChem 2019)<br \/>Harry Smallman (MChem 2019)<br \/>Bethan Winterson (MChem 2019)<br \/>Lars Gnaegi, Bern, Switzerland (visiting student 2019)<br \/>Arnaud Osi, Namur, Belgium (visiting student 2019)<br \/>Shaun Jones (MRes 2019)<br \/>Simon Tippner,\u00a0Mainz, Germany (visiting student 2019)<br \/>Alastair Holland, Cardiff University (2019)<br \/>Matthew Tailby, Cardiff University (MRes 2019)<br \/>Julian Spilz, Universit\u00e4t Bremen, Germany (visiting student 2019-2020)<br \/>Alexander Lees (MChem 2020)<br \/>Harry Ritchie (MChem 2020)<br \/>Tim Renningholtz, Leipzig, Germany (visiting student 2019-2020)<br \/>Camille Sanchez, CPE Lyon, France (visiting student 2019-2020)<br \/>Pankaj Kumar, IIT Ropar, India (visiting student 2021)<br \/>Manuel Langer, Troms\u00f8, Norway (visiting student 2021)<br \/>Alexander Greaves (MChem 2022)<br \/>Hanna Rieger, Mainz, Germany (visiting student 2022)<br \/>Martin Beccera, Santiago de Chile, Chile (visiting student 2022-23)<br \/>Macey Fayers (MChem 2023)<br \/>Daniel Ryder (MChem 2023)<br \/>Ihsan Ullah Khan, Pakistan (visiting student 2023)<br \/>M. \u00c1ngeles Guti\u00e9rrez L\u00f3pez, Geneve, Switzerland (visiting student 2023)<br \/>Suguru Iwai, Tokyo University, Japan (visiting student 2023)<br \/>Elizaveta Borisova, Petersburg, Russia ((visiting student 2023)<br \/>Thomas Kuczmera, Universit\u00e4t Bremen, Germany (visiting student 2023)<br \/>Ma\u00e9 Marie, ESCOM (visiting student 2023-2024)<br \/>Kai Matsui, Nagoya University, Japan (visiting student 2024)<br \/>Janis Sadauskis, University of Riga, Latvia (visiting student 2024)<br \/>Miriam Foulkes, Imperial College London, UK (visiting student 2024)<br \/>Alice Strukelj, ESCOM, France (visiting student 2024)<br \/>Maylis Finance, ESCOM, France (visiting student 2024)<br \/>Simon Kiwatkowski, ESCOM, France (visiting student 2024)<br \/>Johannes Westph\u00e4ling, KAIST, South Korea (visiting student 2024\/2025)<br \/>Jaime Lorente Martinez, University of Zaragoza, Spain (visiting student 2024\/2025)<br \/><br \/><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p 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French , Albion College, USA (visiting professor 1999, 2001, 2003-2004)Prof. Michio Iwaoka \/ Tokai University, Japan (April-September 2008)Prof. Umar Farooq, COMSATS, Abottabad, Pakistan (September-December 2013)Prof. Atul Goel, CDRI, Lucknow, India (March-July 2015) Former Postdoctoral Students: Dr. Klaus J. 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