About Dr John Buckeridge

Biography

I am a computational materials physicist working as a Senior Lecturer in Thermofluids and Turbomachinery in the School of Engineering at London South Bank University. My research focuses on how charge carriers interact with defects in crystalline systems, particularly semiconductors, with applications in energy materials and high power microelectronics. I lead research into advanced materials and quantum computing applications, developing computational methods to understand and predict the behavior of materials at the atomic scale.

I am a Corkonian, exiled to the UK. I studied physics at University College Cork, gaining a first class BSc degree in 2004 and, after a few years wandering the wilderness, returned there to work on my PhD under the supervision of Professor Stephen Fahy. We developed a method to probe complex defect states in dilute nitride semiconductors using carrier scattering properties, which involved creating a computational model of a heterostructure device.

After graduating in 2011, I moved to the Department of Chemistry at UCL to experience culture shock. I spent 8 years there pretending to be a chemist, working with Professor Richard Catlow, as well as Professors Aron Walsh and David Scanlon, establishing a fruitful Irish computational chemistry network. In October 2019 I was appointed a lecturer at LSBU in the School of Engineering, so my job now involves pretending to be an electronic engineer.

With over 75 publications and 6000+ citations, my research spans quantum computing, materials science, and computational physics. I am particularly interested in using quantum computers to solve problems in materials science, and developing new theoretical methods to understand the electronic structure of materials.

Personal Interests

Outside of research and teaching, I enjoy running, cycling, football, movies, crime novels and exploring the South East of England with my wife and two kids.