Rate My Professor Jodie Bradby

Bradby's research focuses on the physical response of materials to pressure, particularly nano-mechanical properties of brittle materials such as semiconductors (silicon, germanium, carbon), glasses, and biomaterials including plant cells and micro-marine creatures impacted by ocean acidification. Her expertise covers nanoindentation of semiconductors undergoing phase transformations for novel materials and devices, high pressure physics, new phase synthesis, and deformation processes. Notable publications include "Compression of [121]Tetramantane to over 50 GPa - Phase transformations and elastic properties" (2025), "Comparison of hydrostatic and non-hydrostatic compression of glassy carbon to 80 GPa" (Carbon, 2024), "Stacking faults along the {111} planes seed pressure-induced phase transformation in single crystal silicon" (Applied Physics Letters, 2024), "Extensively Microtwinned Diamond with Nanolaminates of Lonsdaleite Formed by Flash Laser Heating of Glassy Carbon" (Nano Letters, 2023), and "Hardness of nano- and microcrystalline lonsdaleite" (Applied Physics Letters, 2023). Awards include Gold in the Materials Research Society Graduate Student competition (2002), the Philips Cowley-Moodie Award for Australian Electron Microscopy, and the Australian Institute of Physics Women in Physics Lecturer (2015). She engages in outreach via public lectures, school visits, and media.