We are always happy to welcome motivated, enthusiastic people to join our team. We are LGBTQ+ friendly and aspire to work in an inclusive way. Projects cover a range of topics, materials and techniques, so if you are interested in joining us, please contact Hamish for discussions prior to making an application.
Dr Hamish H-M Yeung
Hamish comes from a mixed Hong Kong – Scottish family. He grew up in Bedford, UK and studied Natural Sciences at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, specialising in Chemistry. He stayed in Cambridge to complete a PhD in Materials Science with Prof Tony Cheetham in 2012 and did a brief postdoc with the same group. From 2014 to 2016 he worked as an independent ICYS researcher at the National Institute for Materials Science, Japan, during which time he spent six months as a visiting researcher with Prof Andy Cooper at Liverpool University. He returned to the UK to take up a Glasstone Fellowship in Inorganic Chemistry and Extraordinary JRF at the Queen’s College in October 2016 and took up a Lectureship in Materials Chemistry in the School of Chemistry at the University of Birmingham in 2019. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2024.
Hamish received a UKRI EPSRC New Investigator Award in 2021, and was awarded the CCDC Chemical Crystallography Prize for Younger Scientists by the BCA Chemical Crystallography Group in 2022.
Outside of science, Hamish is a husband, father, birdwatcher, runner, musician, table tennis player, mental health advocate, gardener and DIY enthusiast. Not necessarily all at the same time, though.
Group members
Postdoctoral researchers
Titas Pramanik joined the group in 2024 from the City University of Hong Kong, where he worked as a postdoc with the “Innovation and Technology Fund Research Talent” award. His main principal investigator at UoB is Dr Yueting Sun in Mechanical Engineering; he is working with the Sun and Yeung groups on the crystallography of metal-organic frameworks under water intrusion. He is a crystallographer, and his research interest is to correlate the structure-property relationship in materials for diverse applications. Titas completed his Ph.D. from the Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit, Indian Institute of Science, India. Outside his research work, Titas enjoys cooking, listening to music, singing, debating socio-political issues, cycling, going to pubs, and watching football matches.
PhD students
Harry Lloyd joined the group in 2019 for his MSci project, investigating structure diversity and conductivity in new molecular perovskites. He returned to do a PhD in 2020, joint-funded by Diamond Light Source, looking at time-resolved structural determination of MOF & perovskite structures, co-supervised by Dr Mark Warren and Dr Lucy Saunders at Diamond. Outside of Chemistry, he is an avid West Bromwich Albion fan, a keen book reader & an enthusiastic tea drinker.
Joe Atherton joined the group in 2020 for a PhD project looking at pre-nucleation in the crystallisation of MOFs, funded by the School of Chemistry. Previously, he completed an MChem at the University of Sheffield, including a final-year research project on organometallic complexes, and spent four years working for a supplier of analytical chemistry equipment. Aside from chemistry he enjoys walking, reading, history, and languages.
Suzie Hughes joined the group in 2021 as a PhD student, and is researching mixed-metal MOFs and hybrid perovskites for potential use as sensing devices. She completed her MChem at the University of Bath, and her final-year project was based on the adsorption and release capabilities of flexible MOFs. Outside of chemistry, Suzie enjoys playing the piano, relaxing in coffee shops, and going on walks.
Sophie Ray joined the group in 2022 for her MSci project investigating intermediate species involved in MOF formation. Her PhD, joint-funded by Diamond Light Source, and co-supervised by Andy Smith (I22) and Phil Chater (I15-1), looks at investigating heirarchical materials formation over multiple lengthscales using X-ray scattering. Outside of university, Sophie is an avid runner, keen reader and enjoys music and going to gigs.
Masters students
Mahjabeen Choudhury
Former members
Patrick Doheny (PDRA, 2023-2025)
Valentina Walls (MSci student, 2024-2025) went on to a PhD with at University College London.
Oliver Rawlings (MSci student, 2024-2025)
Aaron Chambers (PhD, 2020-2024), went to to work as a Production Radiochemist at Alliance Medical Radiopharmacy.
Yiran Tan (visiting research student, 2023-2024)
Alice Walker (summer student, 2024)
Keyuan Huang (summer student, 2024)
Byron Read (MSci student, 2023-2024)
Will Norman (MSci student, 2023-2024) went on to a PhD with Neil Champness.
Hannah Blakiston (MSci student, 2022-23) went on to an NHS graduate management scheme.
Joe Barker (PhD, 2022) went on to a PDRA with Prof Fiona Meldrum in Leeds.
Samuel Gale (MSci student, 2021-22)
Matt Liddle (MSci student, 2021-22) went on to a PhD with Ross Forgan at the University of Glasgow.
Vicky Akroyd (MSci student, 2020-21) went on to work at The Pudding Stop in St Albans.
Matt Bradberry (MSci student, 2020-21)
Dom Allen (Part II student, Oxford, 2019-2020) went on to work at PwC.
Kieran Orr (Part II student, Oxford, 2018-2019) went on to a PhD with Sam Stranks at the University of Cambridge.
Felicity Massingberd-Mundy (summer student, 2017, and Part II student 2018-19) went on to work at Johnson Matthey.
Adam Sapnik (Part II student, Oxford, 2017-2018) went on to a PhD with Tom Bennett at the University of Cambridge.
Kevin Liang (summer student, 2019)
Anisha Bahl (summer student, 2018)
Frank Nightingale (summer student, 2018)
Collaborators
International collaborators, past and present:
Hengbo Cui, RIKEN, Japan
Sebastian Henke, Technical University Dortmund, Germany
Reizo Kato, RIKEN, Japan
Gregor Kieslich, Technical University Munich, Germany
Monica Kosa, Bar Ilan University, Israel
Thien Ngo, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan
Brian Pauw, Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing, Germany
Kota Shiba, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan
Satoshi Tominaka, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan
Takao Tsumuraya, Kumamoto University, Japan
Michael Wharmby, DESY, Germany
Genki Yoshikawa, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan
UK-based collaborators, past and present:
David Allan, Diamond Light Source
Phoebe Allan, Birmingham University
Anthony Cheetham, Cambridge University (PhD supervisor; now NUS Singapore)
Tim Easun, Cardiff University
Michael Gaultois, Liverpool University
Andrew Goodwin, Oxford University
Clare Grey, Cambridge University
John Griffin, Lancaster University
Tim Johnson, Johnson Matthey
Oxana Magdysyuk, Diamond Light Source
Stephen Moggach, University of Western Australia
Andy Pratt, York University
Lucy Saunders, Diamond Light Source
Jin-Chong Tan, Oxford University
Richard Walton, Warwick University
Mark Warren, Diamond Light Source
Yue Wu, Liverpool University
Yeung Research Group at UoB 