Introduction
I completed my undergraduate, master’s and PhD degrees at Imperial College London in the Chemistry, Physics and Materials Departments over the course of 8 years. I then worked at the National Graphene Institute in the University of Manchester as a postdoctoral research associate for a year. After which I spent two years at Harvard University as a postdoctoral fellow in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. I have now moved to the University of Oxford as a Glasstone Research Fellow in Materials and an Extraordinary Junior Research Fellow in Materials of Queen’s College.
Research
My research focuses on the theory and simulation of materials of interest for applications in energy storage technologies, from liquid electrolytes to low-dimensional layered materials. I have developed theories for how electrolytes arrange at electrified interfaces for applications in supercapacitors and batteries, developed approaches for electronic structure calculations of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene to understand its broken symmetry phases, and recently developed transferable machine learning interatomic potentials for electrolytes of interest in battery applications. Recently, I have been applying machine learning methods for atomistic simulations to investigate problems such as solid electrolyte interphase formation in batteries and charge density waves in 2D materials, and understanding these systems more generally through the development of simple theories.
Publications
A full list of my publications can be found here