I am a Professor of Interfacial Engineering. I have taught and undertaken research in chemical and materials engineering since the mid-1990s and have held several senior leadership roles in UK and Australian higher education since 2010.

My research has been supported by more than 20 major grants valued at many millions of pounds total. These grants have been secured from a range of sources, including government research councils, research organisations, and industry. 

I have published more than 150 papers on my research, including in JACS and Nature Materials. I have also contributed numerous invited papers to journals. My publications have attracted more than 4,000 citations.

I have delivered c100 invited lectures, including around 20 Plenary and Keynote Lectures at various conferences around the world.

My collaborative network spans the globe – from China to Japan to Australia to the US to Europe – with many of his papers reflecting these collaborations.

I have supervised around 10 postdoctoral fellows and 20 PhD students to completion. Many of the PhDs have been awarded through publication.

I co-founded the Australian Carbon Society and the Carbon Division of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI). This paved the way to Australia holding the Carbon World Conference in 2017, in Melbourne, which I chaired. 

I have held full and guest editorships of multiple international journals and chaired numerous conferences. I have also held a number of Visiting Professorships and a competatively-awarded funded Fellowship.

I was a member of the College of Experts of the Australian Research Council (2010-12), which at that time was a 100-member body of ‘experts of international standing’ who advised on award of the Federal Government’s annual $300m+ of research funding for the Australian HE sector. I was also the ‘international’ member of the Engineering & Environmental Sciences committee for the 2018 ERA (equivalent to REF).

My research interests range from the fundamental to application in the following contexts:

1. Peptides and proteins at fluid/solid interfaces.
2. Next generation secondary batteries.
3. Next generation solar cells.
4. Nanoporous carbons (which feature alot in the above).
5. Multiphase microfluidics, particularly those involving fluid-solid and liquid-liquid systems.

My work is both modelling and experimental in nature. I have many collaborators around the globe.