The Group
The Cooke Group is an ever adapting, motivated group of researchers from Masters students at the beginning of their careers to Postdocs with years of experience. You will find who makes up the group below.
Graeme Cooke
Postdocs
Dr Abdul-wasir Shaka
Abdul-wasir carried out his PhD in the Cooke Group, researching Hole Transport Materials (HTMs) that can self-assemble on perovskite surface acting to passivate them and improve their stability in solar cells. Aside this, he is working on improving the pattern of arrangement of SOT-OH, a derivative of Spiro-OMeTAD made by the group, by incorporating hydrogen bonding groups forcing the compound’s molecules to aggregate in a certain pattern hoping to improve its consistency and film forming ability when spin coated.He did his undergraduate and masters degrees at Ambrose Alli University, Nigeria.
PhD Students
Abarna Sekar
Abarna is a final year PhD student developing novel self-assembled monolayer (SAM) materials for solar cell application.
Gregor MacLeod
Gregor is a final year PhD student developing novel organic polymers as additives and dopants to enhance performance of hole transport materials in perovskite solar cells.
Madeleine McRoberts
Madeleine is a second year PhD student under co-supervision with Malcolm Kadodwala and Dr Pablo Docampo (BC Materials, Bilbao), researching materials for perovskite solar cells.