Postdoctoral Researcher
Current* Owned part of a DARPA funded defence research project aiming to reduce the weight of night vision glasses by 75% by using metasurfaces and up-converting nanoparticles to significantly reduce neck strain in warfighters.* Expanded stakeholder understanding with detailed bi-weekly and quarterly reports that communicated complex technical details in accessible presentations for non-physicists, confirmed by 100% positive feed-back.* Enhanced IR-visible light conversion efficiency by over… Show more * Owned part of a DARPA funded defence research project aiming to reduce the weight of night vision glasses by 75% by using metasurfaces and up-converting nanoparticles to significantly reduce neck strain in warfighters.* Expanded stakeholder understanding with detailed bi-weekly and quarterly reports that communicated complex technical details in accessible presentations for non-physicists, confirmed by 100% positive feed-back.* Enhanced IR-visible light conversion efficiency by over 100 times as measured by the ratio of peak emissions, by designing and implementing multi-objective optimization routines for metasurfaces.* Increased the field of view 5 fold, measured by dispersion simulations, by developing and applying a new symmetry analysis technique. Show less