Introduction
Born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago, I did undergraduate degrees in Chemistry and Physics at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine. I then came to Oxford for my DPhil in Condensed Matter Physics, where I worked on the development of new semiconductor materials, such as metal-halide perovskites, for photovoltaic applications. After staying on for 2 years as a postdoctoral researcher, I moved to Princeton University to take up a postdoctoral fellowship jointly held between the Princeton Center for Complex Materials and the Princeton Materials Institute. In 2021 I returned to Oxford to take up an EPSRC Early Career Research Fellowship and was elected as a research fellow in Physics at Corpus Christi College. I took up my current position at Queen’s in 2025.
Teaching
I teach a range of topics to physics undergraduates at Queen’s, including optics, circuit theory, electromagnetism, thermal and statistical physics, and condensed matter physics. I also typically supervise 2 MPhys students, together with approximately seven DPhil students and two or three post-doctoral researchers.
Research
I am an experimental condensed matter physicist, and my research sits at the intersection of condensed matter physics, chemistry and materials science. It is focused towards developing insight into the fundamental processes governing thin-film crystallisation and defect formation in new and emerging semiconductor materials. My work seeks to establish a fundamental understanding of how precursor materials assemble into high-quality compound semiconductors such as halide perovskites and pnictides. I develop novel kinetic pathways to modulate crystallisation dynamics in these systems, with the aim of optimising their optoelectronic properties and improving both material and device stability.
Publications
A complete list of my publications can be found here