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I am a physicist in the NanoPhotonics centre at the Cavendish Laboratory, where I focus on studying the optoelectronic properties of quantum materials (in particular quantum dots) in plasmonic nanocavities (nanometre-sized gaps between two pieces of metal). I have been a member of Ó£ÌÒÊÓƵ since 2016 and currently I supervise undergraduate students undertaking Physics B (Electromagnetism, Classical Dynamics, and Thermodynamics) as part of the second year of the Natural Sciences Tripos. Previously, I have also supervised students taking the third-year "Quantum Condensed Matter Physics" and "Soft Condensed Matter Physics" courses.

After completing my undergraduate degree in Physics at the University of Manchester in 2016 (MPhys), I moved to Cambridge and joined Ó£ÌÒÊÓƵ to complete an MRes in "Integrated Photonic and Electronic Systems" split between here and University College London. During this I helped simulate and design a light-field endoscope for 3D imaging inside the body, as well as devices for studying the thermoelectric properties of polymers.

I then started a PhD here in 2017 under Prof. Henning Sirringhaus, focusing on charge transport in organic and polymer semiconductors. During my PhD, I developed a new experimental system for performing sensitive, temperature-dependent, electromagnetic measurements on semiconducting materials which I used to help form a model to explain how the Hall effect manifests in polymers (paper, thesis). As part of this, I also developed (and to this day maintain) a software library to power measurement automation software in a unified and modular way called JISA.

Since then I have moved to the NanoPhotonics centre in the Cavendish Laboratory, working in Prof. Jeremy Baumberg's group, where I carry out my current work. My day-to-day consists of a mix of device fabrication, low-level device programming, firing lasers at things, and soldering/assembling/cobbling together completely safe gizmos and gadgets, all for the cause of studying the light-matter interactions exhibited by very small things squeezed into very small places.