Dr. Prashant Kamble is a Chartered Energy Engineer with over a decade of experience in research, academia, and industry, specialising in Control & Instrumentation (C&I) systems for Nuclear and Renewable Energy. His expertise covers nuclear power, hydrogen, gasification, industrial automation, and digital optimisation, with a strong focus on sensor technology. He holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Glasgow and an MSc in Petroleum Refining Systems Engineering from the University of Surrey, both funded through prestigious fellowships. Dr. Kamble has led and contributed to major UK and EU-funded projects, including EPSRC, Supergen Bioenergy (£1.25M), UKRI (£639K), and Invest Northern Ireland (£103K). His work has advanced real-time process control, automation-driven industrial IoT systems, and clean energy solutions aligned with the UK’s sustainability goals. A recipient of six research awards, he has published eight journal papers and presented at ten international conferences. His research collaborations extend across the UK, USA, and India. As a Senior Research Engineer at the Nuclear AMRC (University of Sheffield), he applies his C&I expertise to gas-cooled fast reactor project. Dr. Kamble is endorsed for a Global Talent Visa by the Royal Academy of Engineering and holds interim Chartered Engineer (CEng) status from the Engineering Council (UK).

Sam is a student in the Sustainable Hydrogen CDT and joined the Lanterna group in 2023, studying supported nanoalloys for sustainable hydrogen production, and is co-supervised by Dr Jesum Alves Fernandes. Sam received his MEng in Chemical Engineering from Queen’s University Belfast, completing his final year research project under the supervision of Prof. Peter Robertson and Dr Nathan Skillen. In his spare time, Sam enjoys spending time in nature or staying in with a book and listening to music.

Bradley joined the group in January 2025 on the EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellowship, using quantum defects, primarily nitrogen-vacancy defects in diamond, to study reactive photogenerated intermediates on heterogenous catalyst surfaces.

Ryan joined the group as a PhD student in April 2021, studying light-responsive heterogeneous metal-semiconductor materials for organic transformations. He received his MSci in Chemistry in 2019 from the University of Nottingham, after completing his final year research supervised by Prof. Woodward. When outside of the Lab, Ryan enjoys his free time woodworking to make various pieces of furniture, practising historical sabre fencing, or occasionally hiking in various National Parks.

Robert joined the group as a PhD student in October 2023, studying heterogeneous photocatalysis for isomerisation and hydrogenation of olefins and polyolefins. He received his MChem from the University of York in 2021, following his final year research project under the supervision of Prof Ian Fairlamb. Away from the lab Robert enjoys playing Ultimate Frisbee and swimming.