We develop new theoretical tools for simulating the movement of energy and charge in disordered or dissipative materials, as well as their interaction with light. We apply our techniques to both next-generation materials and biological systems, with the aim of developing design principles for improving solar energy conversion. For calculations that are too hard for existing supercomputers, we create new methods that use quantum computers.
We develop new methods to better understand how charge and energy move in molecular systems, including photosynthetic complexes, where we have shown quantum effects play a role.
Organic semiconductors promise clean solar energy and lightweight electronic devices, and we are unravelling how they work and how to improve them.
Harvesting solar energy is about light interacting with matter, and we are showing how coherent aspects of this interaction can be used to improve efficiencies.
Simulating quantum chemistry and physics is difficult for ordinary computers, so we are developing a full suite of methods to do it efficiently on quantum computers.
Welcome Zach, who join us for an undergraduate research project
Congrats to Daniel for winning the best poster prize at HOPV 2020 for his work on partially delocalised charges in organic semiconductors
Our paper on reaction-centre dimerism is among the Most popular 2018-2019 articles in Chemical Science
Welcome Ryan, who joins us from the University of Ottawa for a postdoc
Welcome Celia, Will, and Sasha, who join us for undergraduate research projects
Congratulations to Daniel for his Westpac Future Leaders Scholarship
Ivan receives the Le Fèvre Medal from the Australian Academy of Science, the top award for early-career Australian chemists