Kalani Moore
International Visiting Student
Introduction
Hi I’m a Ph.D. Student from University of Limerick in Ireland. I study a range of nanomaterials with Electron microscopy and my major pastime is explaining to friends and family what that is. I enjoy most sports but practice surfing and rugby the most. Anything water based and I’m in. I also like board games such as Risk and Scrabble.
Research Interests
My current Ph.D. title is “2D sheets in a 3D world” meaning I get to do EELS on a whole bunch of different 2D defects/features in materials.
I am involved in a US-Ireland project on Ferroelectric domain walls, which involves materials such as lead titanate, lead germinate, a copper chlorine boracite, lithium niobate and lanthanum aluminium oxide. We have been studying the behavior and electronic characteristics of these domain walls at atomic resolution and under electric fields/heating in-situ in the SEM and TEM.
Other than that, I have worked on ultra-low energy ion implanted graphene, MoS2 and MoSe2 and I am currently investigating MBE grown group iii-nitrides with 2Ds as the active region in KAUST.
Education
B.Sc Applied Physics, University of Limerick, 2015
Professional Profile
Research Intern, Host Centre Eindhoven, 2014
Faculty Research assistant, Oregon state university, 2015-2016
Ph.D. Candidate, University of Limerick, 2016 - present
Scientific and Professional Memberships
Institute of Physics, Royal microscopy society, European microscopy society, Microscopy society of Ireland
Awards
Best Poster, IMEE Huddersfield 2017
KAUST Affiliations
Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE) Division | Electrical Engineering
