Dr Harley Scammell was a postdoctoral researcher who worked with Prof Oleg Sushkov at UNSW on the theory of artificial graphene in FLEET’s Research Theme 1, topological materials. Dr Scammell’s research focussed on the interplay of various tuning parameters – such as strain and spin-orbit coupling – on the electronic properties of artificial graphene. Key considerations are additional, emergent Dirac points and topological insulator phases.
In 2019, Harley spent his Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholarship working with world-renowned theoretical physicist Professor Subir Sachdev at Harvard University to further the under-standing of the mechanisms behind superconductivity – an exotic quantum phase of matter.