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EDUCATION  

2003-2006 Ph.D. in Computational Physics. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Spain)

2001-2003 M.Sc. in Computational Physics. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Spain)

1997-2001 B.Sc. in Physics. Universitat de Barcelona (Spain)

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RESEARCH & ACADEMIC POSITIONS

2020-2026 Associate Professor. Department of Physics, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Spain)

2020-2025 Ramón y Cajal Fellow. Department of Physics, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Spain)

2015-2020 Senior Lecturer. School of Materials Science and Engineering, UNSW Sydney (Australia)

2015-2019 ARC Future Fellow. School of Materials Science and Engineering, UNSW Sydney (Australia)

2010-2015 JAE-DOC Postdoctoral Fellow. Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (Spain)

2006-2010 Postdoctoral Researcher. University College London (United Kingdom)

2001-2006 PhD Student. Department of Physics, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Spain)

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OTHER POSITIONS

2024-2027 American Physical Society (APS) Peer-Reviewed Journal "Physical Review Letters" (Q1, ISSN 1079-7114), Divisional Associate Editor 

2021-2022 French-Australian Research Network on Conversion and Energy Storage (IRN-FACES), Hydrogen Energy Coordinator 

2020-2021 Hydrogen Energy Research Centre (UNSW Sydney, Australia), Leader Program "Advanced Modelling Techniques for Material Development"

2020-2021 GlobH2E: ARC Industrial Transformation Training Centre for the Global Hydrogen Economy (Sydney, Australia), Chief Investigator

2022- Open Access Peer-Reviewed Journal "Scientific Reports" (Q1, ISSN 2045-2322), Editorial Board Member

 2021- Open Access Peer-Reviewed Journal "Frontiers in Chemistry" (Q2, ISSN 2296-2646), Editorial Board Member 

2018- Open Access Peer-Reviewed Journal "Crystals" (Q2, ISSN 2073-4352), Editorial Board Member

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RESEARCH PROJECTS

2026-2029 Discovery Project 2026 "Unlocking Synergistic Solar-driven Freshwater and Electricity Co-generation" (DP260100280). Lead CI: Prof. Dewei Chu. Australian Research Council (Australia). Amount: €553,263

2026-2029 Discovery Project 2026 "Stabilising Perovskite Photovoltaics by (A,B)-Site Co-Doping" 

(DP260104334). Lead CI: Prof. Rongkun Zheng. Australian Research Council (Australia). Amount: €399,190

2025-2028 MSCA Staff Exchanges 2024 "Solar Cells-Inspired Inorganic Semiconductor Synaptic Systems for Low Energy Edge Computing and Visual Learning" (101183049). Lead CI: Dr. Zacharie Jehl. European Science Foundation and European Comission (Europe). Amount: €676,200

2024-2027 Spanish National Project "Tackling Disorder: The Physics Behind Energy Harvesting" (PID2023-146623NB-I00). Lead CI: Prof. Josep Lluis Tamarit and Prof. Eloi Pineda. Spanish Ministry of Science and European Science Foundation (Spain). Amount: €172,000

2024-2027 Spanish National Project "Many-Body Approaches to Quantum Matter" (PID2023-147469NB-C21). Lead CI: Prof. Pietro Massignan and Prof. Grigory Astrakharchik. Spanish Ministry of Science and European Science Foundation (Spain). Amount: €206,000

2023-2025 Discovery Project 2023 "Bioinspired nanoionic materials for Watt-scale nano-hydroelectric generator" (DP230101040). Lead CI: Prof. Dewei Chu. Australian Research Council (Australia). Amount: $516,000

2023-2024 Ecological and Digital Transition 2021 "Advanced theoretical and experimental characterization of low-dimensional chalco-halide materials for their integration in solar cells" (TED2021-130265B-C22). Lead CI: Dr. Claudio Cazorla. Spanish Ministry of Science and European Science Foundation (Spain). Amount: €166,750 

2022-2024 Spanish National Project "Disorder for Energy Harvesting" (PID2020-112975GB-I00). Lead CI: Prof. Josep Lluis Tamarit and Prof. Daniel Crespo. Spanish Ministry of Science and European Science Foundation (Spain). Amount: €287,500

2022-2024 Spanish National Project "Simulation of Quantum Ultradilute Gases and Liquids" (PID2020-113565GB-C21). Lead CI: Prof. Grigory Astrakharchik and Prof. Jordi Boronat. Spanish Ministry of Science and European Science Foundation (Spain). Amount: €153,000

2022-2024 Industry Project "Barocaloric and Electrocaloric Effects" (C-11830). Lead CI: Prof. Josep Lluis Tamarit. Total (France). Amount: €355,000

2020-2025 "Ramón y Cajal" Fellowship "Multicaloric Materials for Ambient Solid-State Cooling" (RYC2018-024947-I). Lead CI: Dr. Claudio Cazorla. Spanish Ministry of Science and European Science Foundation (Spain). Amount: €348,700

2021-2024 Discovery Project 2021 "Bioinspired Flexible Haptic Memory Materials for Artificial Sensory Nerves" (DP210100879). Lead CI: Prof. Dewei Chu. Australian Research Council (Australia). Amount: $381,238

2021-2024 Discovery Project 2021 "Topotactic Control of Magnetism in Multiferroic and Skyrmion Materials" (DP210102346). Lead CI: Prof. Jan Seidel. Australian Research Council (Australia). Amount: $437,000

2021-2022 Linkage Infrastructure Project "A platform for probing nanoscale magnetic states under multiple actuations" (LE210100086). Lead CI: Prof. Tom Wu. Australian Research Council (Australia). Amount: $489,2500

2020-2024 Training Centre "ARC Training Centre for The Global Hydrogen Economy" (IC200100023). Lead CI: Prof. Kondo-Francois Aguey-Zinsou. Australian Research Council (Australia). Amount: $4,920,490

2019-2023 Linkage Project "Engineering Nanoionic Interfaces towards High Performance Cathode Coatings" (LP190100113). Lead CI: Prof. Dewei Chu. Australian Research Council (Australia). Amount: $422,881

2019-2023 Linkage Project "High Performance Metal Oxide Inks for Printable Memory Arrays" (LP190100829). Lead CI: Prof. Dewei Chu. Australian Research Council (Australia). Amount: $324,072

2019-2020 UNSW Sydney Research Support "Multiferroic Solid Solutions for Novel Magnetoelectric and Energy-Conversion Applications". Lead CI: Dr. Claudio Cazorla. UNSW Sydney (Australia). Amount: $20,000

2018-2020 Industry Project "Development of Advanced Cathode Materials for High Performance Li-ion Batteries" (RG182056). Lead CI: Prof. Dewei Chu. Qidong QiAo New Materials Technology Co. Ltd. (Australia). Amount: $265,627

2018-2020 Industry Project "Enhancing the Performance of Photovoltaic Panels by Phase Change Inhibited Materials" (RG194266). Lead CI: Prof. Dewei Chu. YCGC Pty. Ltd. (Australia). Amount: $102,000

2015-2020 UNSW Sydney Major Research Equipment and Infrastructure Initiative. Lead CI: Prof. Kondo-Francois Aguey-Zinsou, Prof. Jan Seidel, and Dr. Claudio Cazorla. UNSW Sydney (Australia). Amount: $205,000

2015-2019 Future Fellowship "Rational Design of Novel Multiferroic Materials for Energy Harvesting and Energy Efficiency" (FT140100135). Lead CI: Dr. Claudio Cazorla. Australian Research Council (Australia). Amount: $621,374

2011-2014 JAE-DOC Fellowship "Study of Multifunctional Oxide Materials with First-Principles Simulation Techniques". Lead CI: Dr. Claudio Cazorla. Spanish Science Research Council and European Science Foundation (Spain). Amount: €160,000

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FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

2020-2025 Ramón y Cajal Fellowship (Spain)

2018 Postgraduate Research Supervisor Award, UNSW Sydney (Australia)

2017 Research Visit Award, University of Valencia (Spain)

2015-2019 ARC Future Fellowship (Australia)

2011-2014 JAE-DOC Fellowship (Spain)

2010 Translational Access HPC-Europa2 Award, University of Barcelona (Spain)

2009 Translational Access HPC-Europa2 Award, University of Barcelona (Spain)

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SUPERVISION OF POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS

2021-2024 Ph.D. Thesis "Investigating the correlation between thermal properties in Cu2Se and the performance of Cu2Se as an electrocatalyst by using computational method", Student: Jie Min, Primary Supervisor: Dewei Chu

2019-2022 Ph.D. Thesis "Nanomechanical characterization of functional materials using scanning probe microscopy", Student: Cam Phu Thi Nguyen, Primary Supervisor: Jan Seidel

2018-2021 Ph.D. Thesis "Tailored synthesis of conjugated polymers with phosphonate functionalities for bioelectronic devices", Student: Jonathan Hopkins, Primary Supervisor: Damia Mawad

2017-2020 Ph.D. Thesis "First-Principles Study of the Functionality of Cobalt-Based Multiferroic Oxides", Student: César Menéndez, Primary Supervisor: Claudio Cazorla

2016-2019 Ph.D. Thesis "Computational Study of Fast-Ion Conductors Under Stress", Student: Arun K. Sagotra, Primary Supervisor: Claudio Cazorla

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2021-2022 Master Thesis (by Research) "An atomic correlation study in fast-ion conductors", Student: Cibrán López, Primary Supervisor: Riccardo Rurali

2019-2020 Master Thesis (by Research) "Computational Study of Oxygen Diffusion in SrTiO3 Under External Mechanical and Electric Fields", Student: Zizhen Zhou, Primary Supervisor: Claudio Cazorla

2019-2020 Master Thesis (by Research) "The structural and electronic properties of BiVO4 with several different dopants", Student: Wenhan Yi, Primary Supervisor: Dewei Chu

2019-2020 Master Thesis (by Research) "First-principles study of the structure and ionic diffusion mechanism in lanthanum lithium titanate", Student: Ruizhe Chen, Primary Supervisor: Claudio Cazorla

2017-2018 Master Thesis (by Research) "Mixing Thermodynamics and Photocatalytic Properties of GaP-ZnS Solid Solutions", Student: Joel N. Shenoy, Primary Supervisor: Claudio Cazorla

2017-2018 Master Thesis (by Coursework) "Novel Electrocaloric Materials for Nanorefrigeration Applications: A Computer Simulation Study", Student: Wanlu Zhang, Primary Supervisor: Claudio Cazorla

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TEACHING

2025 "Thermodynamics". Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Spain)

2022-2025 "Functional Properties of Materials". Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Spain)

2023-2025 "Physics II: Electromagnetism". Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Spain)

2021-2025 "Quantum Physics". Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Spain)

2021-2023 "General Physics II". Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Spain)

2021 "General Physics I". Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Spain)

2020 "Physical Properties of Materials". UNSW Sydney (Australia)

2020 "Fundamentals of Materials Processing". UNSW Sydney (Australia)

2020 "Advanced Functional Materials". UNSW Sydney (Australia)

2020 "Thermodynamics and Phase Equilibria". UNSW Sydney (Australia)

2016-2020 "Design and Applications of Materials". UNSW Sydney (Australia)

2015-2020 "Nanotechnology". UNSW Sydney (Australia)

2006-2009  "General Physics". University College London (United Kingdom)

2002-2006  "General Physics I". Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Spain)

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