Dr. Luke Rhodes

University of St Andrews, UK
Dr Luke Rhodes is an early career researcher whose research boarders experimental and theoretical condensed matter physics. He finished his PhD in 2019 under Prof.  Matthias Eschrig (Royal Holloway) and Dr Timur Kim (Diamond Light Source) combining Angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) and correlated electronic modelling techniques to uncover the electronic and superconducting properties of FeSe. He then moved to St Andrews on an independent 1851 fellowship where he developed expertise in Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM) and, along with Prof Peter Wahl, developed new numerical methods to simulate experimental observables from scanning tunnelling microscopy. He now remains at St Andrews as a postdoctoral research fellow, where he is working on bridging experimental and theoretical research avenues in the study of unconventional superconductivity, 2D magnetism and topology.