Principal Investigator: Dmitry K. Efimkin
Current Position & Employment History
Since 2025 — Senior Lecturer, School of Physics & Astronomy, Monash University
2019 — 2025 — Lecturer, School of Physics & Astronomy, Monash University
2016 — 2019 — Research Fellow, Center for Complex Quantum Systems, University of Texas
2013 — 2016 — Research Associate, Condensed Matter Theory Center, University of Maryland
Education
2012 — PhD in Theoretical Physics, Institute of Spectroscopy Russian Academy of Science
2009 — M.S. in Physics, Moscow State University
Group Photo (May 2025 and April 2022):
Group Members:
Cooper Finnigan
HDR (PhD) student
Research topic:
Plasmons in Dirac materials
Magnetoplasmons
Phys. Rev. B 105, 205426 (2022)
Phys. Rev. B 110, L041406 (2024) [Editors' suggestion]
Wang Yuanzhao
Master's student
Research topic:
Magneto-plasma waves
Shadman Iqbal
Master's student
Research topic:
Exciton-polarons in 2D semiconductors
Lachlan De Simone
Honours student
Research topic:
Excitonic superfluids
Kiril Rabtsevych
Honours student
Research topic:
Interactions between electrons and magnetic textures
Alumni:
Leo (Guangyao) Li
Postdoctoral researcher (2021-2022)
Research topic:
Bubble-trapped Bose-Einstein condensates
Phys. Rev. A 107, 023319 (2023)
Left for a postdoctoral position at the University of Otago
Alexander Zalischanskiy
Honours student (2022)
Research topic
Electron-hole condensation
Phys. Rev. B 108, 075433 (2023)
Left for a PhD student scholarshio at the Iowa State University
Anny (Chack Wa) Pau
Master's student (2020-2021)
Research topic:
Excitons in 2D semiconductors
Phys. Rev. B 104, 165411 (2021)
Hong Liu
Postdoctoral researcher (2019-2020)
Research topic:
Coulomb drag effect
Excitons in 2D semiconductors
Phys. Rev. B 104, 165411 (2021)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 166801 (2021)
Left for a postdoctoral position at the UNSW