Awards

UCL Mathematical & Physical Sciences (MAPS) Faculty Education Award (Certificate), for Individual Excellence in academic supervision and personal tutoring. Shortlisted for the Provost’s Award.
Associate Fellowship of the Higher Education Authority (AFHEA), awarded for meeting UK Professional Standards in higher education teaching and learning support.
Successful EPSRC Pioneer Grant lead author for Archer2 supercomputing resources (2023); notional value £110k.
2023 UCL Open Science & Scholarship Award (Certificate)

Research Excellence Awards

Materials Research Society (MRS) Graduate Student Award (Gold) & Future Leader 2023 (Social Media Card & Certificate)
Materials Today Chemistry Rising Star Award 2022 (Certificate)
MRS Future Leader 2023 (Certificate & Video)
European Materials Research Society (eMRS) Young Researcher Award 2022 (Certificate)
Ramsay Medal for Best Chemistry PhD student in UCL & Catlow Prize for Best Computational PhD student in UCL Chemistry 2022 (in the 3rd year of my PhD) (Certificate & Medal)
MRS Graduate Student Award (Silver) 2022 (Social Media Card & Certificate)
MRS Future Leader 2022 (Certificate & Video)
eMRS Graduate Student Award 2021, Symposium F: “Earth-abundant next generation materials for solar energy” in recognition of outstanding research performance (Paper: ‘Hidden spontaneous polarisation in the chalcohalide photovoltaic absorber Sn$_2$SbS$_2$I$_3$’). (Certificate)
eMRS Graduate Student Award 2021, Symposium A: “Materials for energy applications” in recognition of outstanding research performance (Paper: ‘Rapid Recombination by Cadmium Vacancies in CdTe’). (Certificate)
Shortlisted for the International Conference on Defects in Semiconductors (ICDS) 2021 Corbett Prize (typically awarded to Associate Professors).
Lindau Spirit Fellowship for highly-promising young researchers; awarded to 4 junior lecturers, 1 postdoctoral and 1 PhD researcher (me), at the 2022 Lindau Nobel Chemistry Laureate Meeting.

UCL-McGill-JSPS Core-to-core research collaboration grant (£3k) to visit Prof. Yu Kumagai in Tohoku University (October – November 2022), to extend our defect structure-searching work.
Max Planck Travel Award (€1k) for a research stay with Prof. Christoph Freysoldt at Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung (MPIE), Germany. (Certificate)
Thomas Young Centre (TYC) Junior Research Fellowship (JRF), 2021 (£1k).
École Polytechnique Fédérale Lausanne (EPFL) SeeFuturePV Young Scientist Travel Grant 2021.
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Researcher Development Grant, 2021.
UCL Mathematical & Physical Sciences Faculty Early Career Researcher Travel Grant (£800).
Royal Society and UCL Nominee to attend the tri-annual Chemistry Nobel Laureate Meeting in Lindau, Germany, at which I was awarded the Lindau Spirit Fellowship for highly-promising young researchers; given to 4 junior lecturers, 1 postdoc and 1 PhD (me).
RSC Solid State Chemistry Group Travel Award 2022.

Roy Prize for Best Graduate Student Oral Presentation at the RSC 40th Anniversary Solid State Chemistry Group (SSCG) Meeting, 2021 (£250), judged by the invited speakers.
Best Poster Prize at the RSC International Conference on Materials Chemistry (MC16) – ‘Tin & Titanium Vacancy-Ordered Halide Perovskites: Cs$_2$(Sn/Ti)X$_6$’. (Certificate)
Excellent Talk Prize at MRS Fall 2022 – ‘Impact of Cation Disorder in ABZ$_2$ Solar Absorbers’.
Best Presentation Award at EMRS Spring 2022 – ‘Cation disorder engineering in AgBiS$_2$’. (Certificate)
Excellent Talk Prize at MRS Fall 2020 – ‘Enhanced Optical Absorption via Mixed-Valent Doping of Vacancy-Ordered A$_3$B$_2$X$_9$ Triple Perovskites’. (Certificate)
Excellent Talk Prize at SCI Materials for Energy Technology 2021 – ‘Rapid Recombination by Cadmium Vacancies in CdTe’.
Best Poster at TYC Conference 2020, King’s College London – ‘Band Alignment of Antimony and Bismuth Silver-Bromide Double Perovskites’.
Excellent Poster Prize at RSC Materials Chemistry Poster Symposium 2021 – ‘Bandgap Lowering in Lead-Free Cs$_2$Ag(Sb/Bi)Br$_6$ Double Perovskite Alloys’. (Certificate)
Best Poster Prize at UCL Chemistry PhD Poster Session (2021) – ‘Hidden spontaneous polarisation in the chalcohalide photovoltaic absorber Sn$_2$SbS$_2$I$_3$’. (Certificate)

Henderson-Lloyd prize for the highest overall grade in the Class of 2019, in the Schools of Chemistry and Physics at Trinity College Dublin (margin >10%).
Trinity Employability Award in Partnership with Intel (2018).
Elected to Foundation Scholarship, the “most prestigious undergraduate award in Ireland” (€100,000 Value)(2017). (Certificate)
Represented Trinity College Dublin in the Eurachem Analytical Measurement Competition, achieving 2nd place out of 20 (2017).