Group Leader
Dr Dimitra Georgiadou
Dr Dimitra Georgiadou is Associate Professor and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, leading the Flexible Nanoelectronics Lab in the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton. She also serves as the Deputy Impact Champion in the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Machine Intelligence for Nanoelectronic Devices and Systems (MINDS CDT) and Training Lead in the UKRI AI CDT in AI for Sustainability (SustAI CDT).
Dimitra earned her PhD in Chemical Engineering/Organic Electronics from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece. Before joining the University of Southampton as a Principal Research Fellow at the Optoelectronics Research Centre, she was Industrial Fellow at the Department of Materials, Imperial College London (ICL), working with PragmatIC Semiconductor, a UK-SME developing flexible radiofrequency electronic devices for the Internet of Things, and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Department of Physics (ICL).
Post-Doctoral Researchers
Dr Roshni Satheesh Babu
Dr Roshni Satheesh Babu specialises in 2D materials and polyoxometalates for optoelectronic memristive devices for artificial synapses. She previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Gyeongsang National University, South Korea, on 2D materials and earned her Ph.D. from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, where she worked on bimetallic structures to enhance surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensor performance.
Dr Yuxin Xia
Dr Yuxin Xia earned his PhD from Linköping University, Sweden, in 2019 and subsequently worked as a postdoctoral researcher, specialising in organic photodiodes in Sweden and Belgium. Since January 2023, he has been with the Flexible Nanoelectronics Group, focusing on photodetectors, expanding to retinomorphic devices, and supporting the group with AFM and various optoelectronic characterisation. Check Yuxin’s latest publication on “Multiple Narrowband Bidirectional Self-Powered Organic Photodetector with Fast Response”: https://doi.org/10.1002/lpor.202401032
Dr Sujaya Kumar Vishwanath
Dr Sujaya Kumar Vishwanath is perfroming research on the development of flexible halide perovskite memristors and novel resistive switching devices for neuromorphic computing. He completed his Ph.D. at Kongju National University, South Korea (2017), specialising in transparent conducting oxides and memristors.
Dr Evangelos Moutoulas
Dr Evangelos (Evan) Moutoulas serves as the device fabrication expert of the Flexible and Organic Nanoelectronics group. He studied Applied Mathematics and Physics at the National Technical University of Athens and holds a PhD from the University of Southampton. His main research interest is the development of sensors for various applications.
Dr Evangelia Founta
Dr Evangelia (Eva) Founta is currently working on the fundamental understanding of redox mechanisms within polyoxometalate-based molecular memory and energy storage devices. She carried out her PhD at the Flexible Nanoelectronics Lab, where she worked on flexible batteries based on biodegradable materials. She holds an MSc degree on the synthesis and characterisation of nanomaterials from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and a BSc in Chemistry from the University of Ioannina, Greece. Her expertise liess in applying electrochemistry and materials chemistry concepts in flexible electronics applications.
PhD Students
Emilie Gerouville
Emilie investigates polyoxometalate-based electronic memories for neuromorphic computing, aiming to create energy-efficient artificial neurons that mimic brain functions. She holds a Bachelor's Degree in Chemistry from Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium) and an International Master's Degree in Advanced Spectroscopy in Chemistry from the Universities of Lille, Leipzig, and Krakow. Find out more about Emilie’s PhD project and research journey at her blog: https://egerou.github.io/blog/2024/phd/
Chris Madden
Chris is studying the use of lead-free solution-processable perovskites in optoelectronic memory devices, and the impact that fabrication parameters have on the morphology and resistive switching characteristics of the perovskite devices. He holds a Master’s in Chemistry with Nanotechnology from the University of Hull.
Mohit Kumar Gautam
Mohit’s research focuses on developing low-power neuromorphic devices based on nanogap electrodes and nanomaterials. He pursued a Master’s in Nanoelectronics at the IIT, Indore, India, where he fabricated and modelled Y2O3-based memristive devices and systems for synaptic learning/neuromorphic computation. He is currently developing a 2D material-integrated ferroelectric tunnel junction in-memory sensing device for low-power AI hardware. Check out Mohit’s latest publication on “2D MoS2 monolayers integration with metal oxide-based artificial synapses”: https://doi.org/10.3389/fnano.2024.1400666
Albert Heinrich Lanthaler
Albert received his Bachelor’s in 2019 and his Master’s Degree in 2021, both in Mechanical Engineering from Università degli Studi Parma, Italy. He is currently enrolled in the Advanced-Systems Engineering PhD program at the Free University of Bolzano-Bozen and he recently joined the University of Southampton as visiting researcher. His work aims to develop sensors and systems for Smart Textiles, based on recyclable, biocompatible and biodegradable materials.
Alumni
Piotr Zawal
Piotr was on his final year of PhD studies in the Academic Centre for Materials and Nanotechnology of the Faculty of Physics and Applied Informatics at AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow, Poland, when he visited the University of Southampton for a 3-month internship in 2021. His PhD was on “Neuromimetic effects in perovskites and their analogs” and some of the results he obtained during his visit were published in the paper “Leaky Integrate-and-Fire Model and Short-Term Synaptic Plasticity Emulated in a Novel Bismuth-Based Diffusive Memristor”: https://doi.org/10.1002/aelm.202300865.