Associate Professor Hodgkiss is also a Rutherford Discovery Fellow, and deputy director of the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology. His research group develops and applies ultrafast optical spectroscopy methods to understand the photophysics of next generation optoelectronic materials. Associate Professor Hodgkiss completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Otago (New Zealand), before undertaking his PhD with Dan Nocera at MIT, and a postdoc with Sir Richard Friend in Cambridge.