Dr Mark Edmonds is a Senior Lecturer and ARC Future Fellow within the School of Physics and Astronomy at Monash University. Mark received his PhD from La Trobe University in 2014, and was previously an ARC DECRA Fellow from 2016-2019. Mark is an Associate Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence "Future Low Energy Electronic Technologies" and an Investigator in the Monash Centre for Atomically Thin Materials and a Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication Technology Fellow.

Mark has been awarded the Monash University Faculty of Science Early Career Researcher Award, Australian Institute of Physics Laby Medal for best honours thesis and Nancy Millis PhD Prize for best PhD thesis within Science at La Trobe University.

I am interested in the electronic properties of two-dimensional or atomically thin materials that form a new class of matter "topological materials". This field of research has only been recently developed and was the subject of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Specifically, I work on the growth and fabrication of thin film topological materials that possess novel electronic properties that have the potential to realise low-energy electronics that aim to drastically reduce energy consumption in computing.

I grow these materials either via molecular beam epitaxy, a method that allows materials to be grown atom by atom and layer by layer with precise control or exfoliate them with scotch tape and stack them together to form novel heterostructures. I then utilize a variety of experimental techniques to study these materials including synchrotron-based photoelectron spectscopy to probe the electronic bandstructure, scanning probe microscopy to probe the material at the nanoscale and electrical measurements at low temperature.

I am open to supervising a range of projects involving atomically thin topological materials. Please contact me to discuss further.