Phat Tan Nguyen completed his PhD with FLEET in 2023 under the supervision of CI Agustin Schiffrin and Dr. Gary Beane at Monash University. His research investigated optically driven topological phases of matter using terahertz time domain spectroscopy and pump-probe spectroscopy with sub-picosecond time resolution and at the scale of a single atom. He began a research position with the company, Next Ore in 2023.