Rate My Professor Daniel Sando

Daniel Sando is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Physical and Chemical Sciences at the University of Canterbury. He earned his PhD in physics from Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, in 2010, focusing on experimental laser physics. Following his PhD, he held postdoctoral positions at Unité Mixte de Physique CNRS/Thales in France and the Center for Correlated Electron Systems in Seoul, South Korea, until 2015. He subsequently worked as a research fellow at the University of New South Wales Sydney before joining the University of Canterbury in 2023. Sando teaches undergraduate courses such as PHYS203 and serves as Graduate Research Coordinator for Physics and Astronomy. He is also an Associate Investigator and Principal Investigator at the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, and a member of the Neutron Scattering Committee of the Australian Neutron Beam User Group.

Sando's research focuses on perovskite oxide thin films for low-energy computation and nanotechnology applications. His team fabricates thin films of complex oxides, including multiferroics, ferroelectrics, optically active materials, magnetic, and topological systems, using pulsed laser deposition. They characterize these materials with techniques like scanning probe microscopy, X-ray diffraction, and neutron diffraction to explore their tunable properties for next-generation technologies. Key publications include 'Crafting the magnonic and spintronic response of BiFeO3 films by epitaxial strain' (Nature Materials, 2013), 'BiFeO3 epitaxial thin films and devices: past, present and future' (Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2014), 'Nonvolatile ferroelectric domain wall memory' (Science Advances, 2017), 'Chemical route derived bismuth ferrite thin films and nanomaterials' (Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2016), and 'Room Temperature Electrical Manipulation of Giant Magnetoresistance in Spin Valves Exchange-Biased with BiFeO3' (Nano Letters, 2012). His work has garnered substantial citations and recognition through invitations to speak at international conferences such as the IEEE Ferro School and MRS symposia.