Background

I got an MSci in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge (UK), then an MS and PhD in Physics from BC. The focus of my PhD research was the study and calculation of the thermal conductivity in semiconductor materials. I worked from an agency of the Ministry of Defense (UK) for three years prior to moving to the US. I’ve been in the Marthlab for nearly 4 years and my work here focuses on the development of next-generation sequencing pipelines.

Publications

Thermal conductivity of diamond under extreme pressure: A first-principles study, D. A. Broido, L. Lindsay, and A. Ward, Physical Review B 86, 115203 – Published 6 September 2012

Intrinsic phonon relaxation times from first-principles studies of the thermal conductivities of Si and Ge, A. Ward and D. A. Broido, Physical Review B 81, 085205 – Published 4 February 2010

Ab initio theory of the lattice thermal conductivity in diamond, A. Ward, D. A. Broido, Derek A. Stewart, and G. Deinzer, Physical Review B 80, 125203 – Published 16 September 2009

Intrinsic lattice thermal conductivity of Si/Ge and GaAs/AlAs superlattices, A. Ward and D. A. Broido, Physical Review B 77, 245328 – Published 30 June 2008

Lattice thermal conductivity of silicon from empirical interatomic potentials, D. A. Broido, A. Ward, and N. Mingo, Physical Review B 72, 014308 – Published 29 July 2005