Dr Pankaj Sharma is a Lecturer at the College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Adelaide, where he leads experimental studies of advanced electronic materials and devices at the nanoscale utilising cutting-edge scanning probe microscopy and spectroscopic techniques. Prior to this current role, Pankaj was a FLEET Research Fellow at UNSW with Chief Investigator Prof Jan Seidel. This collaboration continues today with research focussed on topological materials and studying ferroelectric thin films and 2D van der Waals materials. Within FLEET, Dr Sharma worked in the Centre’s Research theme 1: Topological materials and Enabling Technology B.