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Dr Michael Hippler (Priv.Doz. ETHZ, Ph.D., Dipl.Phys.)

Chemistry
University of Sheffield
Sheffield S3 7HF, United Kingdom

Tel.: +44 114 222 9505

E-mail: M.Hippler@sheffield.ac.uk | LinkedIn

Until 2005, and again since 2024: Privatdozent (lecturer) at the Laboratorium für Physikalische Chemie, ETH Zürich, Switzerland.
Since 2005: Senior Lecturer in Physical and Analytical Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry Theme Leader, Level 2 (2nd year) Coordinator, Chemistry, University of Sheffield.

Ali Mutlaq Alharbi
PhD student from Saudi Arabia.

Joined the group in September 2022 as an MSc, continued in January 2024 as a PhD student; his project in Analytical Chemistry involves the development of photoacoustic near-IR sensors for trace gas analysis in the environment and in petrochemistry (natural gas analysis).

E-mail: Ali Mutlaq A Alharbi <amaalharbi1@sheffield.ac.uk>

Maryam Aldoghaim
PhD student from Saudi Arabia.

Joined the group in October 2018 and completed her PhD viva on June 2023; research in Analytical Chemistry using liquid-phase Raman spectroscopy and surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) in the biosciences and petrochemistry.

Huw Fletcher-Jones
MChem student from 2019 until 2020.

Research project to use silver nanoparticles to detect and monitor microbes (surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy, SERS) .

Dr George Metcalfe
PhD student from Wensleydale 2018-2022.

Joined the group in September 2017 as an MChem, continued in October 2018 as a PhD student; completed his PhD viva on June 30th 2022; using gas-phase White cell FTIR, gas-phase cavity-enhanced Raman spectroscopy and liquid phase Raman spectroscopy as analytical tools in the study of the metabolism of microbes and in biotechnology. Dr George Metcalfe has been awarded the departmental Turner Prize 2023, in recognition of his exceptional achievements over his PhD.

Dr Saeed Alahmari
PhD student from Saudi-Arabia, 2016-2019.

Research in Analytical Chemistry using Helmholtz resonator photoacoustics and cavity-enhanced Raman spectroscopy in the biosciences and petrochemistry.

Joshua Balacky
MChem student, 2018-2019.

Research project to set up a portable liquid-phase Raman spectrometer for analytical applications in the biosciences.

Mahir Mohammed
MChem student, 2018-2019.

Research project to employ LIBS (laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy) for soil analysis.

Dr Thomas W Smith
PhD student, 2013-2016.

Thomas' PhD research focused on new applications of Infrared and Raman spectroscopies to gas phase analysis in the biosciences.

Xiu-Wen Kang
MChem student from Malaysia, 2015-2016.

Xiu-Wen joined the Hippler group 2015-2016 to do an undergraduate MChem research project focused on analytical applications of photoacoustic spectroscopy, including Herriot cells and Differential Helmholtz Resonators. She is now a PhD student in Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, doing ultrafast laser spectroscopy studies of protein kinetics.

Dr Johnny Chu, PhD 2011-2014.

Dr Claire Louise Spencer, PhD 2007-2010.

Dr Christian Mohr, PhD 2005-2008.