News

It's a wrap for the CECAM/Psi-k workshop 'Recent advances in first-principles modeling of eletron-phonon interactions' that Carla, together with Samuel Poncé, Matthieu Verstraete, and Fabio Caruso, organised this week in Lausanne, Switzerland! It was fantastic to see all the amazing progress in the field and to catch up with many colleagues. - 11/12/25

UQ's Condensed Matter Physics headed to North Stradbroke Island for our first retreat! Great to see everyone enjoying the beautiful island, the company, and the research discussions. - 03/11/25

New work on superconducting germanium led by Julian Steele (UQ/AIBN), Peter Jacobson (UQ) and Javad Shabani (NYU) is out in Nature Nanotechnology! You can read more about it in some news here and here. - 31/10/25

Carla had a busy week at the Psi-k conference in Lausanne, with an invited talk, two co-organised symposia, and an ECR panel discussion. It was great to catch up with so many people and the amazing research that's been happening since Psi-k 2022! - 29/08/25

Congratulations to Shuyi, who won the School of Mathematics and Physics Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition, and to Anna, who won a poster prize at the 2025 Australian Winter School on Computational Chemistry! - 11/07/25

Mridul Singhal and Connor Tweedie start as new PhD students in the group. For the next 6 months, we are also lucky to host Dr Marnik Bercx visiting from PSI, Switzerland. Welcome all! - 01/07/25

Carla is now an Associate Investigator of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum Biotechnology (QUBIC). Looking forward to engaging with the centre! - 20/03/25

The 47th AIP Condensed Matter and Materials Meeting (or 'Wagga in Brisbane') has just wrapped up! It was a team effort with the organisers - Ben Powell, Peter Jacobson, Jennifer MacLeod (QUT), and Carla - to host 70 participants at UQ from across Australia, New Zealand, and overseas. Ariel, Anna and Shuyi all presented a poster. - 07/02/25

Anna Carpenter joins the group to start her PhD, co-supervised by Ben Powell. Welcome to Brisbane! - 29/01/25

We are awarded 3.2 MSU (approx 2.7 M cpuh) on Australia's supercomputers Gadi and Setonix via the NCMAS scheme. - 06/01/25

We receive funding from the Global Science and Technology Diplomacy Fund - Strategic Element as part of a UQ team led by A/Prof Ebinazar Namdas to work on advanced materials for optoelectronics. If you are a domestic student interested in a PhD, get in touch! - 16/12/24

Connor, Finn, and Huiwen finish Honours, congratulations! - 14/11/24

Carla gives an invited talk at the International Workshop on Data-Driven Computational and Theoretical Materials Design (DCTMD2024) in Shanghai - pic below with one of the organisers, Rika Kobayashi from ANU. Earlier this year, Carla also gave colloquium seminars at UQ (SMP) and ANU (Research School of Chemistry). - 10/10/24

Carla is part of the new Queensland Quantum Decarbonisation Alliance receiving funding from the QLD government. We will work with colleagues in SMP (Ben Powell, Jacinda Ginges and Peter Jacobson) and industry on metal-organic frameworks for hydrogen storage. - 30/09/24

Ayano Yamamoto, a visiting PhD student from the Adachi Lab in Kyushu University, Japan, has been working with our group for the last 3 months. Safe travels back! - 19/09/24

Our work in collaboration with Ebinazar Namdas and Shih-Chun Lo at UQ has made it to the front cover of ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces. Well done to all! - 04/09/24

Ariel and Shuyi are attending the CAMD Summer School 2024 in Helsingør, Denmark, and are presenting a research poster - pic below! - 18/08/24

After giving a lecture at this year's SMP Junior Physics Odyssey event, Carla is off to Europe for the month, visiting research groups at the University of Oxford, Rennes (pic below) and Vienna, and giving an invited talk at the CECAM/Psi-k workshop Frontiers in many-body excited-state dynamics from first principles in Lausanne. - 02/07/24

Carla delivers a talk at the Pint of Science event in Brisbane. That was fun - with the bonus of bringing home a PoS glass! - 13/05/24

Shuyi Shi joins as a PhD student. Welcome Shuyi! - 01/04/24

Connor Tweedie and Finn Turton (Physics) join the group for their year-long Honours (4th year) project. Huiwen Tan (Chemistry) will work on her Honours project with Ben Powell and Carla. Welcome! - 19/02/24

Carla gives an invited talk at the 2024 International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICONN2024) in Melbourne. Sadly not much time to hunt down the best coffee around! - 15/02/24

Ariel Cabrera Aguilar joins the group to start his PhD. Welcome Ariel! - 02/01/24

Good to be back in Sydney and give a talk at the Gordon Godfrey Workshop. Great workshop and beautiful city! - 23/11/23

Our Discovery Project on quantum emitters in van der Waals materials, led by Prof Milos Toth at UTS, is funded by the ARC! - 30/10/23

Our work led by Stefan Riemelmoser and Georg Kresse at the University of Vienna on machine learning density functionals from the random-phase approximation is selected as Editor's Choice in the Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. Congratulations! - 06/10/23

Carla joins UQ to continue her DECRA and start a new research group in the School of Mathematics and Physics - just in time to give a talk at the NEMD workshop & school organised by Debra Bernhardt at UQ. Stay tuned for more news and opening opportunities! - 01/09/23