A/Prof Ben Powell

COPE | Physics | SPS | EPSA | University of Queensland
strongly correlated electrons | organic electronics | biophysics
glasses (radio interview)
PHYS2020 (Thermodynamics and CMP) | Quantum Many-Body Theory reading group
postdocs | students | former postdocs | former students
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A/Prof Ben Powell

Group

Postdocs

[There should be a photo here.] Dr Andrew Bardin (2009-present), organic charge transfer salts
[There should be a photo here.] Dr Andrew Stephenson (2010-present), organic charge transfer salts

Students

Ph.D.

[There should be a photo here.] Janani C. Principal supervisor (2010-present), heat and charge transport in strongly correlated organic materials
[There should be a photo here.] Anthony Jacko Co-supervisor (2007-present), strong correlations in organo-metallic materials


I am always interested in taking on talented research students (for Ph.D., M.Sc., honours or summer projects). Please contact me for further details.


Former postdocs

[There should be a photo here.] Ujjual Divakar (2006-2008), plastic superconductors
[There should be a photo here.] Eddy Yusuf (2005-2007), organic superconductors, pseudogap phenomena


Former students

Including electronic copies of the student's theses where available.

Ph.D.

[There should be a photo here.] Bernard Mostert Associate supervisor (2007-2011), Charge Transport Properties in Eumelanin: Probing the Effect of Hydration on the Ubiquitous Biomacromolecular Pigment via Conductivity, muSR and EPR Experiments.
[There should be a photo here.] Edan Scriven Principal supervisor (2006-2011), Low energy effective Hamiltonians for strongly-correlated organic metals
[There should be a photo here.] Andrew Stephenson Principal supervisor (2006-2010), Electrical Properties, Tunability and Applications of Superconducting Metal-Mixed Polymers
[There should be a photo here.] Jenny Riesz Associate supervisor (Queensland, 2004-2007) Spectroscopic properties of melanins

Masters

[There should be a photo here.] Johannes de Boor Associate supervisor (Queensland, 2007) Charge Transport in eumelanin
[There should be a photo here.] Michael Deceglie Associate supervisor (Queensland, 2006-2007) Novel hydrophobic dendritic sensitisers for use in dye-sensitised solar cells: the effect of molecular structure on performance and charge transfer dynamics

Honours (final year undergraduate)

[There should be a photo here.] Anthony Jacko Principal supervisor (Queensland, 2006, first class honours) Non-Universality of the Kadowaki-Woods Ratio in Layered Materials
[There should be a photo here.] Bernard Mostert Associate supervisor (Queensland, 2006, first class honours in Chemistry), Proton conduction in Bio-macromolecules
[There should be a photo here.] Greg Freebairn Principal supervisor (Queensland, 2005, first class honours and a University Medal) Phonons and the Isotopically Induced Mott transition
[There should be a photo here.] Clare Giacomantonio Associate supervisor (Queensland, 2004-5, first class honours and a University Medal) Charge Transport in Melanin, a Disordered Bio-Organic Conductor

Summer undergraduate projects

John Varghese (2005-6)
Antony Jacko (2005-6)
Greg Freebairn (2004-5)
Andrew Dennis (2003-4)