| Current Post | Royal Society University Research Fellow (10/2008 - Junior Research Fellow at St. John's College, Oxford (10/2005 - 09/2009) |
| Awards |
2009 JCCU Best lecturer competition, Department of Materials 2009 Teaching excellence award, MPLS Division, Oxford University 2009 Nicholas Kurti European Science Prize Cavendish Medal, First Prize in Physics for "SET for Britain" 2009 First Prize: Institute of Physics, Quantum Electronics and Photonics PhD thesis 2006 St. John's College Prize 2000, 2001 Wright Prize for Natural Sciences 1999 St. John's College Scholar 1999, 2000, 2001 DERA Scholar 1998-2002 Richards Gold Medal for Academic Excellence 1998 Chemist of the Year 1997, Winner of Regional Finals of Young Engineers Competition 1997, Finalist of Young Electronics Designer Awards 1997, Finalist of Duracell Science and Technology UK Schools Competition 1996, Exhibition to Radley College 1993, Presidential Award for Academic Fitness (U.S.A.) |
| D. Phil (PhD) | Electron Spins in Fullerenes as Prospective Qubits New College, University of Oxford |
| Undergraduate | St. John's College, Cambridge First class in Natural Sciences 1A Tripos, June 1999 - Physics, Chemistry, Materials and Mineral Sciences, and Mathematics First class in Natural Sciences 1B Tripos, June 2000 - Physics, Advanced Physics, Maths, and History and Philosophy of Science First class in EIST (Electronic and Information Sciences Tripos), June 2001 - Circuit Design, Semiconductors, Control Systems, Communications, Computer Science, and Management Science Pass with Merit EIST IIB, June 2002 - Nanotechnology, VLSI Design, Pattern Processing, Solid State Devices, Optoelectronics, Electronic sensors and instrumentation, Real Options, Operations Research |
| Other | h-index: 9 Erdős number: 4 |
| [2009] | Developed and presented undergraduate lecture course on Electrical and Optical Properties of Materials |
| [2008] | Designed and presented a new postgraduate lecture course on Quantum Computation, for the Materials Department, in collaboration with three other researchers. Presented exhibit at the Royal Society Summer Exhibition on quantum computing with molecular materials. |
| [2007] | Organised international workshop on “Measurement-based quantum computation” at St. John’s College, Oxford. Founded nano.org, an online resource for the rapid dissemination and discussion of research in nanotechnology and related fields. |
| [2003 - 6] | Tutor in Condensed Matter Physics, Mathematics for Materials Scientists, Electrical Properties of Materials at Magdalene, Trinity and St. Edmund Hall Colleges, Oxford. Tutor in Quantum Physics at Radley College, Abingdon |
| [1997-2001] | Technology consultant in Johnstown, PA. Eight months (cumulative) at the Defense Evaluation Research Agency (DERA – now known as QinetiQ) working on network integrities, mobile phones, polymer composite materials, and carbon fibres. |
| Communicating physics to a wider audience has always been a passion of mine. I am a STEMNET SEAS ambassador, have given several talks and tutorials in schools on physics, and written textbooks on microcontrollers targeted at young people, one of which is in its third edition. I regularly take school students into my laboratory for summer projects under the Nuffield scheme. |