Dr Monica Craciun

Professor Monica Craciun is a Professor in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology in the Engineering Department at the University of Exeter. She is part of the Exeter Energy, the Centre for Graphene Science, the Nano Engineering Science and Technology (NEST) Group, and the Centre for Metamaterial Research and Innovation.

Professor Craciun has over 20 years of research expertise in the areas of Advanced Materials, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. She held one of the 5-year EPSRC Engineering Fellowships for Growth, awarded to only eight leading UK academics to maintain the UK’s research leadership in the area of Advanced Materials (identified as one of the Great British Technologies). Professor Craciun has served as an investigator on more than 30 EPSRC, Royal Society, Innovate UK, EU and industrial research grants with a total funding of over £10 million.

The academic work of Professor Craciun spans from engineering research in nanotechnology, electronic and optoelectronic devices to fundamental science research in nanoscience (quantum phenomena, molecular electronics, nano electronics, spintronics) and materials science (discovery of new materials and manufacturing methods, understanding the properties-performance relationship). She has over 200 publications in leading international journals (e.g. Nature & Science family journals, Advanced Materials, Nano Letters), with many papers ranked in the top 1% in Materials Science, Engineering and Physics. Her work has attracted an h-index of 47, an i10-index of 90 and more than 7400 citations. Professor Craciun leads a research group working on two-dimensional materials with the aim of harnessing their novel properties to drive groundbreaking innovations in the sectors of energy, computation, communication, healthcare, and sensing.