Team

Research team members

The Habershon research group is based in the Department of Chemistry at the University of 糖心TV.

Our team comprises PDRAs, PhD students, graduate researchers and undergraduate project students from a range of backgrounds, including chemistry, physics, biochemistry and maths.

If you are interested in joining our group as a MRes student, PhD student, or PDRA - please get in touch!

Habershon group standing in front of statue.

Habershon research group, October 2025: (L-R) Kyle Acheson, Ziad Fakhoury, Scott, Zahra Bhatti, Ashima Bajaj, Adam O'Hare, Joe Gilkes, Sam Legg, and Dev Patel.

Current Habershon group members

Prof. Scott Habershon (PI)

Scott's research interest is in developing and applying novel chemical dynamics simulations methods which can be used to study complex systems containing many particles. Particular focus is on photochemistry, automated reaction-mechanism generation, nuclear quantum effects and wavefunction dynamics.

A brief CV can be found .

PDRAs

Sung Wook Moon (started June 2026, funded by EPSRC)
Lidice Cruz-Rodriguez (started September 2024, funded by )

PhD students:

Adam O'Hare (started Oct. 2025)
Lucas Belz-Koeling (started Oct. 2025, HetSys CDT)
Tom Hellyar (started Oct. 2024 - co-supervised with Dr. Livia Bartok-Partay)
Zahra Bhatti (started Oct. 2023, HetSys CDT)
Dev Patel (started Jan. 2024 - funded by Leverhulme Trust)

Older pictures

Habershon research group, August 2024:(L-R) Scott, Noha Khamis, Joe Gilkes, Dev Patel, Zahra Bhatti, Zia Fakhoury, and Kyle Acheson.

Habershon group at the Departmental Rounders competition (July 2016)

L-R: Scott Habershon (PI), Max Saller (PhD student), Gediminas Pazera (URSS), Sam Buxton (PhD student), Lizzie Evans (URSS with Gareth Richings), Lewis Baker (PhD student), Gareth Richings (PDRA), Chris Robertson (PDRA), Adam Dean (URSS)

Habershon group at the Departmental Rounders competition (July 2016)
L-R: Katerina Gonos (URSS student), Alisha Sethi (Nuffield research student), Harry Tunstall (URSS student),
Scott Habershon (PI), Max Saller (PhD student), Jasmine Desmond (IAS Early Career Fellow), Lewis Baker (PhD student),
Lucy Coleman (Summer researcher in Notman group), Sam Buxton (PhD student)
Not shown: Khalid Alzahrani (PhD student), Gareth Richings (PDRA), Chris Robertson (PDRA)

Former group members and visitors

Ziad Fakhoury (started Oct. 2021, HetSys CDT, co-supervised with Dr. Gabriele Sosso - now a PDRA with Prof. Sosso)

Kyle Acheson (June 2023 - February 2026, funded by Leverhulme Trust - now PDRA at Southampton)

Joe Gilkes (HetSys PhD student [2020-2024] funded by AWE, and PDRA funded by Royce Institute in collaboration with Johnson Matthey [2024-2026]).

Ashima Bajaj (Visiting post-doctoral research scholar from VUB, Belgium, May - October 2025) Noha Khamis (PhD student, 2020-2024, with Prof. Martin Wills)

Wojciech Stark (PhD student, 2020-2024, co-supervised with Dr. Reinhard Maurer)

Raphael Chantreau-Majerus (PhD student, 2018-2022, MAS CDT - now working at RecursiveAI)

Idil Ismail (PhD student, 2019-2023, HetSys CDT - now PDRA at ETH Zurich)

Dr. Gareth Richings (PDRA, 2016 - 2023)

James Gardner (PhD student, 2020 - 2023 - now working at Cresset)

Tolu Akintan (MChem student, 2022 - 2023)

Dr. Christopher Robertson (PDRA, 2015-2021, now a PDRA at Heriot-Watt)

Ross Hyland (MChem student, 2019-2020)

Jay Johal (MChem student, 2019-2020)

Holly Stuttaford-Fowler (MChem student, 2018-2019)

Curtis Ochan Ashok (MChem student, 2018-2019)

Sam Buxton (Ph.D student, 2015-2019 - now teaching in the midlands)

Maximillian Saller (PhD, 2013 - 2017 - currently a PDRA with Eitan Geva)

Lewis Baker (PhD, 2013 - 2017 - currently a teaching fellow at University of Surrey)

Khalid Alzharani (PhD, originally supervised by Prof. Robert Deeth, 2013 - 2017)

Adam Dean (URSS summer project student, 2017 - went on to the Oxford TMCG CDT)

Prof. Nathan DeYonker (University of Memphis, IAS visiting Fellow, 2016)

Gediminas Pazera (URSS summer project student, 2017)

Daniel Cheney (MChem project student, 2016 - 2017)

Alex Harris (MChem project student, 2016 - 2017)

Dr. Jasmine Desmond (IAS early career fellow, October 2015 - June 2016 - left to a PDRA at University of Basel)

Jon Alborzpour (MChem project student, 2015 - 2016)

Katerina Gonos (URSS summer project student, 2016)

Dan Coxon (MChem project student, 2015 - 2016)

Alisha Sethi (Nuffield summer research student, July 2016)

Boy Lankhaar (visiting research student, Radboud University, Nijmegen, March 2015 - July 2015)

Roger de Souza Correa (Science without Borders student, Brazil, July 2015 - August 2015)

Kirsten Claridge (MChem project student, 2014 - 2015)

George Cullwick (MChem project student, 2014 - 2015)

Jack Emerson-King (URSS student, July - August 2014)

Michael Allan (MChem project student, 2013 - 2014)

Igor Orlowski (URSS student, July - August 2013)

Dave Perry (MOAC mini-project, May - July 2013)

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