Personal Statement
I am a Professor of Physics associated with the condensed matter physics group. This position followed after closure of the SRS Daresbury laboratory, where I designed and managed the university beam line 4. My expertise is in Surface Science, and synchrotron based techniques, specifically photoemission. I established the Nanomaterials Characterization Laboratory which has been located in the Stephenson Institute for Renewable Energy, where my research interests include solar energy conversion and storage materials, electronic structure of functional materials and electronic band structure and band alignment of oxide materials on semiconductor surfaces. I teach condensed matter physics, along with practical physics to undergraduate students.

Research Overview
I obtained my PhD in Physics from Imperial College London. I have extensive experience working in Industry (VG Scientific) as well as in academia (Sincrotrone Trieste, ICTP Trieste and Liverpool University). and am currently professor in condensed matter physics at the University of Liverpool. My experimental approach, studying electronic properties of advanced functional materials for energy applications, is achieved using three state-of-art instruments that I designed and developed in the Nanomaterials Laboratory based at the Stephenson Institute of Renewable Energy (SIRE).
My research is highly collaborative and interdisciplinary both nationally and internationally (UK, EU, USA, Mexico and India). In addition to my in-house research in the electronic characterization of advanced energy materials, both for photo voltaic conversion and battery storage, I have over 20 years’ experience in synchrotron research with close links with large scale facilities at Daresbury (joint PhD student) Diamond (beamtimes) and Trieste.