Rate My Professor Agustin Schiffrin

Agustin Schiffrin is an Associate Professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy at Monash University, leading the Schiffrin Group in quantum condensed matter physics. He earned his PhD in Physical Chemistry from the University of British Columbia in 2008. Prior to Monash, where he joined in 2015, Schiffrin conducted research as a PhD student and research assistant at the University of British Columbia and held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Quantum Matter Institute. His research focuses on functional supramolecular nanostructures on surfaces, bottom-up design of solid interfaces with tailored electronic and optoelectronic properties, ultrafast charge dynamics at solid interfaces, low-temperature scanning probe microscopy, x-ray-based studies of nanopatterned interfaces, and light-matter interactions. Key interests include nanoscience, surface science, low-dimensional nanostructures, scanning probe microscopy, and pump-probe spectroscopy.

Schiffrin received the Australian Research Council Future Fellowship in 2016. He serves as Primary Chief Investigator on projects such as Controllable quantum phases in two-dimensional metal-organic nanomaterials (2024-2027), Tailored molecular building blocks for low-dimensional electronic and optoelectronic quantum materials (2019-2022), and Chief Investigator on the ARC Centre of Excellence in Future Low-energy Electronics Technologies (FLEET, 2017-2024) and the Victorian Facility for Atom-Scale Quantum Microscopy and Manufacturing. Notable publications include 'Local gate control of Mott metal-insulator transition in a 2D metal-organic framework' (Nature Communications, 2024), 'Artificial-intelligence-driven scanning probe microscopy' (Communications Physics, 2020), 'Upper Bound Estimate of the Electronic Scattering Potential of a Weakly Interacting Molecular Film on a Metal' (Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2024), 'Mesoscopic 2D molecular self-assembly on an insulator' (Nanotechnology, 2023), 'Zwitterionic self-assembly of L-methionine nanogratings on the Ag(111) surface' (PNAS, 2007), and 'Tuning Interface Electronic Properties via Chiral Two-Dimensional Metal-Organic Frameworks' (Small Structures, 2025). With over 3,500 citations on Google Scholar, his work impacts nanoelectronics, 2D materials, and advanced microscopy techniques. Schiffrin supervises PhD, postdoctoral, and honours students, fostering research in experimental condensed matter physics and nanotechnology.