Mr David Cortie
Bragg Institute
Ph: +61 2 9717 3600
E: david.cortie@ansto.gov.au
David Cortie is a PhD candidate working in the field of nanomagnetic materials. He completed a
first-class-honours degree at the University of Wollongong in 2009.
His PhD thesis aims to deploy polarised-neutron scattering techniques to characterise magnetic thin-film systems in order to understand distinctive magnetic phenomena relevant to emerging spintronic technology. The two main material classes being studied are magnetic exchange-bias systems and multiferroic materials. He is supervised by Dr. Frank Klose (The Bragg Institute, ANSTO) and Professor Xiaolin Wang (ISEM, University of Wollongong).
During the first year of his PhD he was affiliated with the magnetism group at University of Western Australia, supervised by Professor Robert Stamps.
His other research interests include thin-film deposition techniques, computational physics, Monte Carlo spin modelling,
semiconductor-device simulation and scientific visualisation.