Rate My Professor Mark Edmonds

Dr Mark Edmonds is an Associate Professor and ARC Future Fellow within the School of Physics and Astronomy in the Faculty of Science at Monash University. He received his PhD from La Trobe University in 2014, for which he was awarded the Nancy Millis PhD Prize for the best PhD thesis within Science at La Trobe University and the Australian Institute of Physics Laby Medal for best honours thesis. From 2016 to 2019, he held an ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) Fellowship. Edmonds is an Associate Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies (FLEET), an Investigator in the Monash Centre for Atomically Thin Materials, and a Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication Technology Fellow. His accolades include the Monash University Faculty of Science Early Career Researcher Award and the 2024 Australian Synchrotron Early-Mid Career Researcher Award. In 2025, he secured $904,800 through the ARC Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LIEF) scheme to establish the Victorian Facility for Atom-Scale Quantum Microscopy and Manufacturing.

Edmonds' research centers on the electronic properties of topological materials, particularly two-dimensional or atomically thin variants that hold promise for low-energy electronics. He grows these materials using molecular beam epitaxy for atomic precision or exfoliates and stacks them into heterostructures. Characterization employs synchrotron photoelectron spectroscopy to map electronic bandstructures, scanning probe microscopy for nanoscale imaging, and low-temperature electrical transport measurements. Notable publications include "Characterization of collective ground states in single-layer NbSe2" (Nature Physics, 2016), "Room temperature in-plane ferroelectricity in van der Waals In2Se3" (Science Advances, 2018), "Electric-field-tuned topological phase transition in ultrathin Na3Bi" (Nature, 2018), "Creating a stable oxide at the surface of black phosphorus" (ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2015), and "2024 roadmap on 2D topological insulators" (Journal of Physics: Materials, 2024). With more than 4,400 citations across 76 outputs, his contributions advance quantum materials research toward energy-efficient technologies.