He holds an MSc from Imperial College London and a PhD from the University of Queensland. Currently he leads a group of 13 scientists on energy materials research from the synthesis of new nanomaterials through to the fabrication, characterization and application of devices. The group has considerable experience in the synthesis of nanomaterials, thin film device fabrication, optoelectronic materials characterisation and advanced transmission electron microscopy techniques. Recent highlights include, the demonstration of vacuum thermal evaporation of conducting polymers for solar cells, the first high resolution TEM imaging of polymer lamellae in bulk heterojunction photovoltaic devices, the first radiation detectors using high-z polymer nanocomposites and the initial demonstration of a SnS nanocrystal heterojunction thin film photovoltaic devices.