I am a DPhil student working with Prof. Marina Filip in the Computational Condensed Matter Physics research group. My research interests involve applying density functional theory and Green's function based approaches for many-body perturbation theory (such as the GW and GW-BSE methods) to perform first-principles calculations of the optoelectronic properties of semiconductors, especially hybrid halide perovskite semiconductors. As I am just beginning my DPhil, this description is necessarily quite open-ended and there are several exciting directions this exploration could go in!
I joined Prof. Marina Filip's group first for my MPhys research project, during which I worked on bringing the group's advances in understanding the effects of phonon screening on excitonic properties to a wider range of materials. I principally used density functional theory calculations with the Quantum ESPRESSO package, which I developed in-house tooling for, to calculate the electronic and vibrational properties needed to approximate the phonon-screened excitonic properties of a range of III-V and II-VI semiconductors.