About me
Academic biography
Jacob completed a Bachelor of Science with First Class Honours in Chemistry and Physics followed by Masters in Chemistry at the University of Auckland (New Zealand). This included research in the areas of ultrafast spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy, Bayesian data analysis, computational chemistry and microfluidics. He received his PhD in 2019 at the University of Cambridge studying the formation of soot in flames using molecular dynamics and electronic structure methods to explore the self-assembly of soot and disordered carbon materials. In 2020 he was a research fellow at the Cambridge Centre for Carbon Reduction in Chemical Technology in Singapore working with industry to decarbonise the petrochemical sector. In 2021 he was awarded the Forrest Fellowship to study the storage of hydrogen in carbon nanomaterials at Curtin University in Perth, Australia. In 2024, he began as lecturer in the discipline of Physics and Astronomy at Curtin University and Group leader of the Curtin Carbon Group.
Contact me
Jacob W. Martin
jacob.w.martin [ a t] curtin.edu.au
Ph: +61 8 9266 3669
I am a group leader with Assoc. Prof. Nigel Marks. The group specialises in carbon materials science.
Led by Prof. Craig Buckley the group specialises in hydrogen materials science. The Carbon Group collaborates closely with the Hydrogen Storage Research Group.
Physics and Astronomy at Curtin engages in the research of Applied Physics, Materials Science, Theoretical Physics, and Astronomy. It works closely with the Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy (CIRA), which focuses on scientific and technological advances in the field, and is involved in the Square Kilometre Array and the Murchison Widefield Array, as well as the investigation of active galactic nuclei and radio galaxies, transient radio phenomena and pulsars. I am a lecturer in Materials Science in the department and teach third-year units including solid-state physics and a research project skills unit.