About me

I am a physicist by training. Currently I am working as a post-doctoral research fellow at Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science (ACEx). I did my PhD in physics in the Optoelectronics group, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge. My research centres around understanding the fundamental photophysics and spin-physics of organic semiconductors by deploying time- and temperature-resolved laser spectroscopy techniques in combination with numerical simulations. My research projects include working with Samsung Display to develop novel and efficient organic light emitters for next generation OLEDs, and breaking the efficiency limit of current solar cells using singlet fission and triplet fusion.

I studied Physics and Materials Science as an undergraduate at the University of Manchester and graduated with a first-class honours degree in 2016. Afterwards, I was admitted to the University of Cambridge to pursue a Master of Philosophy (M.Phil) by research degree in the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy. I have strong quantum physics background and I am strongly interested in state-of-art quantum technologies, such as semiconductors, quantum computers, quantum information, electron microscopes and laser.

So far I have led 5 research projects and two review papers, involving 36 researchers from 17 different groups around the world. I also collaborated in 4 research projects. I presented my research in 2 invited talks, 5 oral presentations and 4 poster presentations in international conferences and departmental seminars. I finished my PhD within 33 months (standard PhD study length is 48 months) and received extremely positive feedback from two PhD viva examiners, Prof. Henning Sirringhaus FRS and Prof. Eli Zysman-Colman FRSC. Prof. Eli Zysman-Colman commented: “Overall, this is a very strong thesis. There is very high degree of rigour to the work. The English is outstanding. The candidate has published three papers, two of which they are first author, all of which are of very high quality and published in top-tier journals. There is more than sufficient work of appropriate novelty to justify the awarding of the PhD.”

Below is a graffiti style hand-drawn poster summarising my PhD. It was firstly drawn just for fun when I was preparing my PhD viva. I really wanted to do something to cherish the past three years of my PhD, an exciting, colourful, and memorable period of my life. The colours almost across all the visible spectrum used in the poster also reflect my daily spectroscopy experiments and those colourful organic molecules I worked on. Luckily this poster won a Best Poster Prize at Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI) 2022 National Congress, Physical Chemistry Symposium. You can find a link here. It was quite a lot of fun to draw it and I hope you enjoy it too.