I am a physicist with 10+ years experience in academia. During my Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge I developed expertise with the fabrication and measurement of nanoscale semiconductor devices relating to quantum computing. My interest in this area continued with a postdoctoral position at the University of New South Wales in Sydney where I worked with the leading group on silicon quantum computing.
After returning to the University of Cambridge in 2007, taking a fellowship awarded by Hitachi, I built up a research group that encompassed electronic devices for quantum computing and spintronics. Here I supervised 7 Ph.D. and 2 Masters students. My work has been published in major journals including Physical Review Letters and the Nature journals and has received >£M funding, including by the European Research Council.
In 2016 I satisfied a long-standing desire to work in a more applied scientific role and took a position in Evonetix, a biotechnology start-up, as a physicist in industry. There I became head of physics and led the thermofluidic chip development, building up a team of 10 and managing the design, outsourced manufacture and test of these complex chips. In 2020, due to an overseas move, I took on a consultancy role for Evonetix, performing simulations encompassing a wide variety of physical effects. Most recently, I set-up Micron Cubed Simulations with the aim of broadening my simulation portfolio.
During my time in academia and more recently in the biotechnology industry I have seen the cost and time-savings afforded by simulations, particularly in the case of physical and biological chip design.