Dr Jackson Smith is currently a lecturer in the School of Science at RMIT University. Prior to this he was a postdoctoral researcher in FLEET, working in Prof Jared Cole‘s group, Jackson’s research focuses on understanding quantum transport in nanoelectronic devices at the atomic scale. He is currently working in the areas of superconducting quantum bits, phosphorus-doped silicon nanostructures, and topological materials. Within FLEET, he applied his knowledge of transport at the nanoscale to investigate the exotic behaviour of topological insulators in Research theme 1: topological materials. Jackson is an expert in numerical methods for the calculation of electronic structure and electron transport in solids, namely tight-binding models, density-functional theory, and the nonequilibrium Green’s function formalism.