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Current Doctoral Supervision

  • Mr Jack Brennan (2017-)
  • Mr Liam Wright (2016-)
  • Mr Robert Webster (2016-)

Previous postgraduate supervision

  • Dr Monifa Phillips (PhD, 2019)
    Thesis:Spectroscopic investigation of resistive switching mechanisms in pulsed laser deposited metal-oxide thin films

  • Dr Scott Smith (PhD, 2017)
    Thesis:Electrons as probes of chiral materials

  • Dr Ciaran Ferguson (PhD, 2016)
    Thesis:Imaging spin textures in advanced magnetic nanostructures using Lorentz microscopy

  • Dr Aaron Naden (PhD, 2015)
    Thesis:Resolving Structure-Function Relations in Advanced Materials by Scanning Probe and Electron Microscopies

  • Dr Pedro Parreira (PhD, 2015)
    Thesis:Nanocharacterisation of zirconia based RRAM devices deposited via PLD

  • Mr Dominic Lawson (MSc, 2014)
    Thesis:Atomic Force Microscopy and Raman Spectroscopy Study of Tantala Films

  • Dr Martin King (PhD, 2013)
    Thesis:Spectroscopy and Microscopy of Transition Metal Chalcogenide Nanomaterials

  • Dr Fraser Douglas (PhD, 2012)
    Thesis: Synthesis and nanocharacterisation of magnetic nanoparticles: from cubes and spheres to octapods and wires

  • Mr Duc Quang Hoang (MSc, 2012)
    Thesis: A Study of Tailored Domain Wall Geometries in Ferromagnetic Nanowires using Lorentz Microscopy

Undergraduate project supervision (Glasgow)

  • Anders Aufderhorst-Roberts (2007)
  • David Duncan (2007/2008)
  • Marianne Monteforte (2008)
  • Martin King (2008/2009)
  • Iain McCrindle (2009/2010)
  • Daniel Ralph (2009/2010)
  • Rebecca Douglas (2010/2011)
  • Scott Smith (2011)
  • Adam Murray (2011)
  • Gareth Armstrong (2011/2012)
  • Megan Coghill (2011/2012)
  • Lee Taylor (2012/2013)
  • Martin Nolan (2012/2013)
  • Conor Cumming (2012/2013)
  • Finlay Walton (2012/2013)
  • Kim Bova (2012/2013)
  • Hussein Hussein (2012/2013)
  • Dennis Laube (Erasmus, 2012/2013)
  • Alistair Inglis (2013/2014)
  • Liam Wright (2013/2014 & 2016)
  • Fraser Laidlaw (2013/2014 & 2015)
  • Benjamin Ukpan (2014)
  • Sean Donnelly (2014)
  • Beatriz Armas Gutierrez (2014)
  • Debbie Redpath (2014)
  • Dhruv Deshmukh (2014)
  • Robert McGovern (2014)
  • Sam Williamson (2014)
  • Paul Racke (2015)
  • Lewis Walker (2015)
  • Thomas Glew (2015/2016)
  • Max Derksen (2015)
  • Jonathan Bannigan (2015)
  • Andrew Brown (2016)
  • Sammy Moore (2016)
  • Gianluca Saviano (2016)
  • John Bolling (2016/17)
  • Stephen Perikleous (2016/17)
  • Declan Haughey (2017)
  • Matthew Curran (2017)
  • Jack Brennan (2017)

Research Employment

2017-present Senior Lecturer in the Materials and Condensed Matter Physics group in the School of Physics & Astronomy of the University of Glasgow.
2015-2017 Lecturer in the Materials and Condensed Matter Physics group in the School of Physics & Astronomy of the University of Glasgow.
2010-2015 Research Fellow in the Solid State Physics group in the School of Physics & Astronomy of the University of Glasgow, employed through an EPSRC Career Acceleration Fellowship.
2006-2010 Advanced Fellow in the Solid State Physics group in the Physics Department/School of the University of Glasgow and employed through the Scottish Universities Physics Alliance.
2002-2006 Postdoctoral Research Associate and Project Manager, the Cavendish Laboratory.
Spring 2003 Visiting researcher at the University of Newcastle, Australia.
Summer 1999 Visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Fluid Dynamics, Gottingen, Germany.
Summer 1997 Research Intern in colloidal chemistry, Proctor & Gamble, Egham, U.K.


Education

2013-2015 University of Glasgow. Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice.
1998-2002 Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge. Ph.D. in Condensed Matter Physics.
I worked within the Surface Physics Group and am a member of Corpus Christi College.
1994-1998 University of Glasgow. M.Sci., Chemical Physics (1st class).
<1998 Portree High School


Professional Development

Chartered Physicist and Member of the Institute of Physics.
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.


Other

For a more comprehensive CV and list of referees, please contact me directly.

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