Past PhD Theses

Dario V. Conca, PhD awarded 2020.
Development of novel optical techniques for the study of cell-surface proteins in living cells at the single-molecule level

Simone Famiani, PhD awarded 2020.
Synthesis and Characterisation of Ironbased Nanoparticles for Magnetic Hyperthermia

Archana Bhartiya, PhD awarded 2019.
Radiation effects on the structure of chromosomes

Daniel Gradeci, PhD awarded 2019.
Physical modelling of epithelia: reverse engineering cell competition in silico

Adrian Hodel, PhD awarded 2019.
Nanoscale study of perforin pore formation and lipid specificity

Nicholas J. Tidy, PhD awarded 2019.
The investigation of the properties of soft matter using optical traps
https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10079990/

Alexander R. Yon, PhD awarded 2019.
Single-molecule Study of Antibody Drug Binding to Cell Surface Receptors

Hasan Alkassem, PhD awarded 2018.
Imaging Antimicrobial Peptides in Action by Atomic Force Microscopy

Roxanne Hachani, PhD awarded 2018.
Development of novel magnetic nanoparticles to track stem cells in tissue-engineered organs

Johnny N. L. Nguyen, PhD awarded 2018.
Manipulation of graphitic microparticles in solution with magnetic and electric fields

Christopher J. Richards, PhD awarded 2018.
Probing micro-dynamics with optical tweezers: Pendula, cell stretching, and thermodynamic fluctuations

Thomas J. Smart, PhD awarded 2018.
A study of dynamics in microscopic systems using optical tweezers: dynamical stabilisation, cell stretching and thermal fluctuations

George Stanley, PhD awarded 2018.
Probing the transport barrier of the nuclear pore complex

Ana Katrina C. Estandarte, PhD awarded 2017.
Diffusion in Nanocrystals by Coherent Diffraction Imaging

Aziliz M. M. Hervault, PhD awarded 2017.
Development of a Doxorubicin-Loaded Dual pH- and Thermo-Responsive Magnetic Nanocarrier for Application in Magnetic Hyperthermia and Drug Delivery in Cancer Therapy

Roger Molto Pallares, PhD awarded 2017.
Development of plasmonic nanomaterial‐based biosensors and bioresponsive materials for diagnostics and molecular‐scale technologies

Malti B. Vaghela, PhD awarded 2017.
Biological control of the mechanical properties of the actin cortex

Aizhan Bestembayeva, PhD awarded 2016.
Biophysical properties of the transport barrier in the nuclear pore complex

Christopher R. Fury, PhD awarded 2016
Acousto-optical trapping and manipulation of microbubbles 

Marian Breuer, PhD awarded 2015.
Computational studies of electron transfer in the bacterial deca-heme cytochrome MtrF

Dino Osmanovic, PhD awarded 2015.
Polymer Theory applied to the Nuclear Pore Complex

Alice Pyne, PhD awarded 2015.
High Resolution Atomic Force Microscopy of Functional Biological Molecules

Cristina Blanco-Andujar, PhD awarded 2014.
Sodium carbonate mediated synthesis of iron oxide nanoparticles to improve magnetic hyperthermia efficiency and induce apoptosis

Luke Green, PhD awarded 2014.
Synthesis and Characterisation of FePt Magnetic Nanoparticles

Laura Shemilt, PhD awarded 2014.
Coherent Diffraction Imaging and Ptychography of Human Metaphase Chromosomes

Bo Chen, PhD awarded 2013.
X-ray Imaging of Three-dimensional Spatial Structure of Coatings

Marco Fritzsche, PhD awarded 2013.
Homeostasis of the cellular actin cortex and its filament length-distribution

Zermina Khan, PhD awarded 2013.
Imaging Biomolecules using Frequency Modulation Atomic Force Microscopy in Liquids

Rosemary Stevenson (previously "Paxman"), PhD awarded Feb 2013.
Resonant Cantilever Sensing: From Model Systems to Application

Po-hung Wang, PhD awarded 2013.
A molecular dynamics simulation approach for calculation of gas diffusion rates in proteins with applications to hydrogenases and dehydrogenases

Richard Bean, PhD awarded 2012.
Domain Structure Imaging with Bragg Geometry X-ray Ptychography