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Meet the team

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Anabel Lanterna

Dr Anabel Lanterna

Group Leader

Anabel is an Assistant Professor in the School of Chemistry at the University of Nottingham, UK.

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Dr Bradley Flinn

EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellow   

Defect quantum sensing, specialising in diamond, for the study of photogenerated reactive spin-active intermediates. 
 

Bradley joined the group in January 2025 on the EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellowship, using quantum defects, primarily nitrogen-vacancy defects in diamond, to study reactive photogenerated intermediates on heterogenous catalyst surfaces.

Ryan Whitehead

Ryan Whitehead

PhD candidate

Light-responsive heterogeneous metal-semiconductor materials for organic transformations

Ryan joined the group as a PhD student in April 2021, studying light-responsive heterogeneous metal-semiconductor materials for organic transformations. He received his MSci in Chemistry in 2019 from the University of Nottingham, after completing his final year research supervised by Prof. Woodward. When outside of the Lab, Ryan enjoys his free time woodworking to make various pieces of furniture, practising historical sabre fencing, or occasionally hiking in various National Parks.

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Robert Munday

PhD candidate

Heterogeneous photocatalysis for isomerisation of olefins

Robert joined the group as a PhD student in October 2023, studying heterogeneous photocatalysis for isomerisation and hydrogenation of olefins and polyolefins. He received his MChem from the University of York in 2021, following his final year research project under the supervision of Prof Ian Fairlamb. Away from the lab Robert enjoys playing Ultimate Frisbee and swimming.

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Hamza Ali

PhD candidate

 Heterogeneous photocatalysis for visible-light driven fine chemical synthesis in continuous flow

Hamza is a PhD student in the CDT in Sustainable Chemistry and joined the Lanterna group in October 2021. Hamza’s PhD project concentrates on preparing heterogeneous photocatalysts for continuous flow and developing self-optimisation processes. His project is co-supervised by Dr Karen Robertson (Fac. of Engineering).

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Samuel Balmer

PhD candidate

Supported nanoalloys for sustainable hydrogen production

Sam is a student in the Sustainable Hydrogen CDT and joined the Lanterna group in 2023, studying supported nanoalloys for sustainable hydrogen production, and is co-supervised by Dr Jesum Alves Fernandes. Sam received his MEng in Chemical Engineering from Queen’s University Belfast, completing his final year research project under the supervision of Prof. Peter Robertson and Dr Nathan Skillen. In his spare time, Sam enjoys spending time in nature or staying in with a book and listening to music.

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Alumni

2021 - 2024

Dr Pekka Korhonen

Pekka was a student in the CDT in Sustainable Chemistry and joined the group in July 2021. Pekka’s PhD project concentrated on metal-organic framework-supported metal clusters for photocatalytic CO2 reutilisation. Pekka was originally from Finland and received his Master’s degree in Chemistry at the University of Eastern Finland in 2019. In his free time, he used to go for long walks, play guitar, travel and sometimes go to the pub for a pint. Pekka left this world in October 2023 but will live forever in the hearts of his family and friends. 

2023 - 2024

Hannah Kirkham - MSci Student

Ewan Gordon - MSci Student

Karys Battenfield - MSci Student

2022 - 2023

Elsa Iacono - MSci Student

Sarah Joyce - MSci Student

2021 - 2022

Joseph Parkinson - MSci Student

Jack Wells - MSci Student

Sheyran Patel - MSci Student

2020 - 2021

Mateusz Suchodol - MSci Student

Caitlin Loveys - MSci Student

Anabel Lanterna

Dr Anabel Lanterna

GROUP LEADER

Assistant Professor, University of Nottingham

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OPPORTUNITIES

We welcome students and postdoctoral researchers to join us on our research adventure

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Where we are

UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM

The University of Nottingham is a research-intense institution based in Nottingham, United Kingdom.

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