―

Academic
Environmentalist
Rock climber

DR PATRICK A BURR

Born in Australia and raised in Italy, I did my undergraduate and PhD degrees in Materials Science and Engineering at Imperial College London, UK. After my PhD, I moved to UNSW Sydney, Australia, to build my research group on energy materials modelling.

In my research, I use atomic scale simulations, often in conjunction with state-of-the-art experimental characterisation techniques, to understand how energy materials degrade, so that we may design improved materials for a sustainable energy future.

My research interest spans many energy materials, from solar cells to nuclear, from fusion to fuel cells, from betavoltaic to supercapacitors. I am also interested in building new way to bridge the gap between theory and experiments, as I believe that this is how the greatest discoveries are made.