CV
Education
- Associate Fellowship (Educational Fellowship), Advance HE, University of Sydney, 2025
- PhD in Physics, University of Southampton, 2015–2019
- BEng Electrical and Electronic Engineering (First Class Honours), Cardiff University, 2012–2015
Employment History
Research Fellow (Level B), School of Physics, University of Sydney, 2023–Present
Research Associate (Level A), School of Physics / Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science, UNSW, 2020–2023
Postgraduate Researcher (PhD), School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, 2016–2019
Electrical Engineer Intern, Arup, Cardiff, Wales, Summer 2014
Academic Service
Event Organisation
- Lead Organiser - Quantum Light and Matter Summer School 2017, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
- Lead Organiser - Quantum Light and Matter Summer School 2018, Bournemouth, United Kingdom
- Lead Organiser - Tutorial on time-correlated single photon counting, Centre for Doctoral Training in New and Sutainable Photovoltaics, University of Southampton, 2016, 2017, 2018
- Organiser - ARC Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science EDI committee event at the annual workshop in Lorne 2022
Comittees
- Representatitve - Equity, diversity, and inclusion committee, ARC Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science
- Representatitve - Equity, diversity, and inclusion committee, School of Physics, University of Sydney
Outreach
- Physics Unboxed — Lab tour for high school students, University of Sydney, 2025
- Kanga’s House childcare centre virtual lab tour, UNSW, 2020
- ISS2023 Meet a Researcher, University of Sydney, 2023
- Youth in Motion - Free tutoring for disadvantaged students, Sydney, 2025
Awards and Achievements
- 95.5% of articles in the top 10% journals (SJR), 2026
- Research featured on front cover of Advanced Energy Materials, 2025
- Article highlighted as ’Hot Paper’ in Angewandte Chemie, 2023
- CDT-PV showcase poster prize, 2018
- Cardiff University Excellence Scholarship, 2012
Publications
Talks
Influencing Magneto-Optical Properties of 2D Perovskites
Oral presentation at Asia-Pacific International Conference on Perovskite, Organic Photovoltaics and Optoelectronics (IPEROP26), Nagoya, Japan
Using Magneto-Optical Microscopy to Understand Excitons in 2D Perovskites
Poster at Asia-Pacific Solar Research Conference (APSRC), Sydney, Australia
Effect of Organic Spacer Cation on Dark Excitons in 2D Perovskites via Magneto-Optical Spectroscopy
Oral presentation at Asian Photochemistry Conference, Melbourne, Australia
Effect of Organic Spacer Cation on Dark Excitons in 2D Perovskites via Magneto-Optical Spectroscopy
Poster at Asia-Pacific Solar Research Conference (APSRC), RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
Photoreactivity of polydopamine radicals under visible light excitation
Oral presentation at RACI 2022 National Congress, Brisbane, Australia
Excited-state dynamics of emerging optoelectronic materials
Oral presentation at Australian Institute of Physics (AIP) Summer Meeting, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia
Effect of illumination and ambient conditions on recombination dynamics in CH3¬NH3PbI3 thin films
Oral Presentation at PLMCN-20, Moscow, Russia
Inverted Planar Perovskite Solar Cells with Hybrid Quantum Dot-PEDOT:PSS Hole-Transporting Layer
Poster at UK Semiconductors 2018, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK
Effect of Light Soaking and Ambient Conditions on Charge Carrier Dynamics in CH3NH3PbI3 and CH3NH3PbI3-xClx Thin Films
Oral presentation at Hybrid and Organic Photovoltaics (HOPV), Lausanne, Switzerland
Phonon-assisted Trapping of Carriers in Lead Halide Perovskites
Poster at Hybrid and Organic Photovoltaics (HOPV), Rome, Italy