Group Leader
Dr. Shalini Singh
Lecturer (Chemistry) Department of Chemical Sciences and The Bernal Insitute, University of Limerick
Shalini received her PhD degree at University of Limerick within INSPIRE structured PhD Programme in 2016. Her work was focused on designing multicomponent metal chalcogenide semiconductor nanocrystals using methods of colloidal chemistry. She subsequently joined Ghent University, Belgium to explore the surface chemistry of colloidal nanocrystals systems. She was awarded FWO postdoctoral grant in 2017 to work on designing novel semiconductors for photonic applications. In early 2020, she returned back to University of Limerick as a Lecturer.
Postdoctoral Researchers
Dr Suvodeep Sen
Suvodeep obtained his Masters in Chemistry from Sikkim University and then subsequently joined Prof. Narayan Pradhan’s group for PhD at IACS Kolkata, India. He obtained his PhD in July 2023. He obtained Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship 2023 and joined Singh’s research group in September 2023. He is working on developing new hybrid 2D electrocatalyst via colloidal chemistry.
PhD Students
Manoj Palabathuni
Manoj has a integrated BS-MS Degree in Nanotechnology from Acharya Nagarjuna university, India (2021). He pursued his MS project under guidance of Dr. Nimai Mishra on Stability of Metal Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals at SRM University India. He is currently a doctoral researcher investigating ternary metal dichalcogenides nanocrystals for energy harvesting and storage applications.
Hannah McKeever
Hannah has just received her BSc. in Pharmaceutical and Industrial Chemistry at the University of Limerick with a first-class honour. Having worked with Dr. Shalini Singh on her final year project she will now continue this work on the synthesis of colloidal ternary metal chalcogenide nanocrystals for uses in energy and environmental applications.
“I loved every minute of my undergrad degree and am very excited to take the next step in my career as a PhD researcher in the field of nanomaterials at UL!”
Niraj Patil
Manh Pham (co-supervised PhD student with Prof. Kevin Ryan)
Manh received BSc. in Chemical Engineering (Inorganic compound technology) from Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam (2014). Completed MSc.D in Material Sciences and Engineering from Chonnam National University, Korea (2019). Currently working as a PhD researcher in the Nanoresearch group at University of Limerick. PhD work is related to Multimodal Assembly of Colloidal Nanocrystals in periodic and Addressable Superstructures (IRC Laureate MACNAS project) funded by IRC.
Mohini Mishra (co-supervised PhD student with Prof. Kevin Ryan)
Mohini received MTech in Chemical Engineering from the IIT BHU and was awarded a scholarship from MHRD India. Following this, she worked sd a Researcher for a Project of collaboration between the DAE-BRNS and IIT Kanpur, India. Since February 2019, she is working as a PhD student at the University of Limerick in SFI investigator project. Her research focuses on colloidal nanocrystals synthesis, characterization and assembly for energy and environmental application.
Past Members
Dr Nilotpal Kapuria
Former co-supervised PhD student and Research Associate
Currently a postdoctoral fellow at Indiana University in Prof Sara Skrabalak’s group.
Dr Maria Zubair
Former co-supervised PhD student with Prof. Kevin M Ryan
Currently working as a Technical Instrument Scientist, Bernal Institute.
Dr Pengshang Zhou
Former co-supervised PhD student with Prof. Zeger Hens
Currently working at Jiangnan University, China.