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The team

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Jesum Alves Fernandes

I am an Associate Professor in the School of Chemistry at the University of Nottingham, UK. My research expertise focuses on metal clusters and ammonia catalysis.

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Emerson C. Kohlrausch

I am a Research Fellow in the JAF group since 2022.

My research expertise focuses on the fabrication of metal clusters, including on-surface metal cluster assembly via magnetron sputtering and their characterisation such as XPS, AC-STEM, PXRD, XAS.

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Andreas Weilhard

I am a Research Fellow in the JAF group since 2020.

My research expertise focuses on ammonia catalysis, including kinetic investigations, mechanistic analysis and computational data processing.

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Richard Plummer

I am a Research Technician in the JAF group since 2022. My expertise lies in the design and fabrication of instrumentation for metal cluster synthesis and catalytic testing.

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Thomas Liddy

I am a PhD student in the JAF group since 2023. My project focuses on hydrogen production from ammonia. My PhD is supported through a partnership between the Sustainable Hydrogen CDT and Diamond Light Source.

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Matthew Young

I am a Research Technician in the JAF group since 2022.  My expertise lies on fabrication of metal clusters.

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Larissa Ricardo Ferreira

I am a visiting PhD student in the JAF group since 2025. My project focuses on methanol production from COâ‚‚. My PhD is supported by UNICAMP/FAPESP (Brazil).

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Harry Hiams

I am a Trainee Technician in the JAF group at the University of Nottingham since 2022. My expertise lies in the design and fabrication of instrumentation for cluster fabrication.

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Dylan Seaman

I am a MSci student in the JAF group working on the production of highly dispersed metal catalysts on surfaces using ion bombardment.

Alumni

2020-2024, Benjamin Young (PhD), Hydrogen Engineer at JCB

Thesis: Development of Low-Temperature Ammonia Cracking Catalysts

Thomas Liddy, Benjamin Young et al, Angewandte Chemie, 2025, e22937

Yifan Chen, Benjamin Young et al, Chemical Science, 2025, 16, 6, 2648-2660

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2020-2022, Luke T. Norman (PDRA), Head of Professional Development, Knowledge Exchange UK

Ilya Popov, Luke Norman at al, Nano Letters, 2023, 23, 17, 8006–8012

 

2016-2020, Jose Pinto (PhD), Technical Product Manager at Molton Brown

Thesis: Fabrication of AuPd Bimetallic Nanoparticles and Their Effects on Hydrogenation Reactions

Jose Pinto at al, Catalysis Science & Technology, 2023, 13, 4082-4091

 

2019-2020 lsrael Cano (PDRA), Associate Professor at Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Israel Cano et al, Nature Communications, 2021, 12, 4965

 

2024-2025, Phoenix Robinson (MSc)

2023-2024, Alexander Bush (MSc)

2022-2023, Molly Knight (MSc)

2022-2023, Ben O'Neill (MSc)

2021-2022, Jake Parkes (MSc)

2021-2022, Emma Jane Hall Maclachlainn (MSc)

2020-2021, Dominic Armstrong (MSc)

2020-2021, Sarah Kathleen Yorke (MSc)

2020-2021, William Benjamin Baker (MSc)

2019-2020, Benjamin Young (MSc)

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