Bernard Field, PhD student, Monash University

Bernard is pursuing a PhD with CIs Agustin Schiffrin and Nikhil Medhekar, working on calculating the properties of novel electronic materials using ab initio (first principles) calculations with density functional theory within FLEET’s Research Theme 1.

In 2018, Bernard received the Rodney L Turner Prize for the Best Honours Thesis in Physics and Astronomy, and the JJ McNeill Prize for the Top Honours Student in Physics or Astrophysics at Monash University, for his work on the quantum mechanical properties of many-body systems, investigating the properties of impurities in Bose-Einstein condensates and how these systems depend on temperature.