I am a James Cook Research Fellow, Principal Investigator in the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, and Associate Investigator in the Dodd-Walls Centre for Photonic and Quantum Technologies.

My interests and expertise are in the transdisciplinary field of nanotechnology. My group synthesizes nanocatalysts for a wide range of selective chemical transformations, most of which support the decarbonization of the global energy sector. A major impact area of my research has been the discovery of low-cost catalysts for water splitting and the oxygen reduction/evolution reactions, key processes in water electrolysers, fuel cells and metal-air batteries. My group also exploits nanotechnology in the development of low-cost optical, photoelectrochemical and electrochemical sensors for environmental monitoring and the detection of threats in foods.

I have led or contributed to focused projects with external funding of over $25 M since 2015, with many of these multi-institutional and multi-national collaborative projects. I am currently working to commercialise my research on rechargeable zinc-air batteries (as low-cost and fully-recyclable alternatives to Li-ion batteries).