Professional experience
9/2022 – present Lead Scientist, Cyban
Lead Scientist
Cyban
Assessment of a Non-Invasive Brain Pulse Monitor to Measure Intra-Cranial Pressure Following Acute Brain Injury.”
Dove Press (2023)
12/2018 – 8/2022 Postdoc, Monash University
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Schiffrin group
“Mesoscopic 2D molecular self-assembly on an insulator”
IOP Nanotechnology (2023)
“Selective Activation of Aromatic C–H Bonds Catalyzed by Single Gold Atoms at Room Temperature.”
JACS (2022)
blog post
“Direct observation of narrow electronic energy band formation in 2D molecular self-assembly.”
Nanoscale Advances (2022)
blog post
“Manifestation of Strongly Correlated Electrons in a 2D Kagome Metal–Organic Framework”
Adv. Func. Mater. (2021)
blog post
“Long-Range Surface-Assisted Molecule-Molecule Hybridization”
Small (2021)
blog post
“Progress in Epitaxial Thin-Film Na3Bi as a Topological Electronic Material”
Advanced Materials (2021)
blog post
9/2016 – 9/2018 Fulbright Scholar + Postdoc, FZU Prague
9/2016 – 6/2017 Fulbright Scholar
9/2016 – 9/2018 Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Nanosurf Lab
Institute of Physics – Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (FZU)
“Significance Of Nuclear Quantum Effects In Hydrogen Bonded Molecular Chains”
ACS Nano (2021)
blog post
“Aromatic Azide Transformation on the Ag(111) Surface Studied by Scanning Probe Microscopy”
Angewandte (2019)
“Nitrous oxide as an effective AFM tip functionalization: a comparative study”
Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. (2019)
“On-surface structural and electronic properties of spontaneously formed Tb2Pc3 single molecule magnets”
RSC Nanoscale (2018)
5/2015 – 9/2016 Postdoc, Monash University
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Fuhrer lab
“Quantum Transport in Air-Stable Na3Bi Thin Films”
ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces (2020)
“Electronic Band Structure of In-Plane Ferroelectric van der Waals β′-In2Se3”
ACS Appl. Electron. Mater. (2020)
“Electric-field-tuned topological phase transition in ultrathin Na3Bi”
Nature (2018)
“Iron-based trinuclear metal-organic nanostructures on a surface with local charge accumulation”
Nature Communications (2018)
“Observation of Effective Pseudospin Scattering in ZrSiS”
Nano Lett. (2017)
“Temperature-dependent n−p transition in a three-dimensional Dirac semimetal Na3Bi thin film”
Phys. Rev. B (2017)
“Spatial charge inhomogeneity and defect states in topological Dirac semimetal thin films of Na3Bi”
Science Advances (2017)
“Electrostatic modulation of the electronic properties of Dirac semimetal Na3Bi thin films”
Phys. Rev. Materials (2017)
“Polypyridyl Iron Complex as a Hole-Transporting Material for Formamidinium Lead Bromide Perovskite Solar Cells”
ACS Energy Lett. (2017)
“Direct Observation of 2D Electrostatics and Ohmic Contacts in Template-Grown Graphene/WS2 Heterostructures”
ACS Nano (2017)
“Cobalt Polypyridyl Complexes as Transparent Solution-Processable Solid-State Charge Transport Materials”
Adv. Eng. Mat (2016)
“Catastrophic degradation of the interface of epitaxial silicon carbide on silicon at high temperatures”
Appl. Phys. Lett. (2016)
“Molecular Doping the Topological Dirac Semimetal Na3Bi across the Charge Neutrality Point with F4-TCNQ”
ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces (2016)
6/2010 – 5/2015 Graduate Student, University of Maryland
Fuhrer lab
6/2010 – 12/2012, University of Maryland, College Park
2/2013 – 5/2015, School of Physics, Monash University
“Electronic Properties of High-Quality Epitaxial Topological Dirac Semimetal Thin Films”
Nano Lett. (2016)
“Thickness and growth-condition dependence of in-situ mobility and carrier density of epitaxial thin-film Bi2Se3“
Appl. Phys. Lett. (2014)
“Stability and Surface Reconstruction of Topological Insulator Bi2Se3 on Exposure to Atmosphere”
J. Phys. Chem. C (2014)
“Air-Stable Electron Depletion of Bi2Se3 Using Molybdenum Trioxide into the Topological Regime”
ACS Nano (2014)
6/2014 – 8/2014 NSF EAPSI / JSPS Summer Research Fellowship
Hasegawa group
Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo
2007 – 2010 Undergraduate Research, University of Minnesota
“Phase Diagram of Electrostatically Doped SrTiO3” Phys. Rev. Lett. (2011)
Supervision
PhD (Monash)
Current
- 4/2021 Julian Ceddia (25% w/ Agustin Schiffrin; supervised until 8/22)
Completed
- 11/2023 Benjamin Lowe (25% w/ Agustin Schiffrin)
“Atomic-Scale Control of Metal-Organic Nanostructures for Electronics” - 5/2021 Dhaneesh Kumar (20% w/ Agustin Schiffrin)
“Atomically Engineered Electronic Two-Dimensional Organic Nanostructures” - 9/2020 Marina Castelli (25% w/ Agustin Schiffrin)
“Atomically precise low-dimensional metal-organic nanostructures with tailored electronic properties”
Honours (Monash)
Completed
- 12/2020 Kushagra Khare (20% w/ Agustin Schiffrin)
- 12/2019 Benjamin Lowe (20% w/ Agustin Schiffrin)
Teaching
2020 & 2021 Honours Condensed Matter Physics sub-unit
PHS4200 Condensed Matter Physics sub-unit (mesoscopic physics half, shared with Agustin Schiffrin).
Education
6/2010 – 5/2015 PhD Physics
9/2006 – 5/2010 BS Physics, Mathematics