Brief Curriculum Vitae
Education
| Ph.D. Physics | University of York, UK | 2004 |
| MPhys Theoretical Physics with First-Class Honours | University of York, UK | 2000 |
Research Experience
| Project Scientist | University of California, Santa Barbara | January 2011-Present |
| Research Visitor | Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen |
May 2010-June 2010 |
| Research Specialist | University of California, Santa Barbara | December 2008-December 2010 |
| Postdoctoral Scholar | University of California, Santa Barbara | July 2006-December 2008 |
| Postdoctoral Scholar | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | October 2003-June 2006 |
Teaching Experience
| Mentor for "The African School series on Electronic Structure Methods and Applications" (ASESMA) |
| Mentoring junior graduate students and international exchange summer research students |
| Classroom teaching as the primary instructor in tutorial classes for beginning undergraduate students in elecromagnetism and atomic physics |
| Teaching assistant in undergraduate computational physics laboratory |
Research Interests
Soft condensed matter:
- Block copolymer self assembly
- Strong fluctuation phenomena
- Ab initio structure discovery
- Inverse design
- Bulk phases and thin films
- Computational approaches:
- Statistical field theories
- High-performance computing on heterogeneous hardware
- GPU programming
Hard condensed matter:
Quantum many-body theory and electronic-structure methods, including:
- Computation of properties of materials from first principles:
- Surface, interface, defect-related and bulk properties
- Electronic excitation spectra, optical response
- Magnetoelectric couplings
- Functional property enhancement by strain, composition, heterostructuring, impurity implantation and alloying
- Materials of interest:
- Nitrides for optoelectronics and photovoltaic applications
- Complex transition-metal oxides
- Rare-earth pnictides
- Computational approaches:
- Density functional theory for ground-state properties
- Many-body perturbation theory for excited-state properties, GW, GW+BSE
- Hybrid first-principles and model-hamiltonian simulations bridging time, length and temperature scales
- Quantum Monte Carlo simulations
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