Rate My Professor Nigel Marks

Curtin University

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4.08/20/2025

Creates a safe and inclusive space.

4.05/21/2025

Inspires confidence and independent thinking.

5.03/31/2025

Always clear, concise, and insightful.

4.02/27/2025

Fair, constructive, and always motivating.

5.02/10/2025

Inspires students to love learning.

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Associate Professor Nigel Marks is a computational materials scientist in the Discipline of Physics and Astronomy at Curtin University, part of the School of Electrical Engineering, Computing and Mathematical Sciences. He leads the Curtin Carbon Group, a multidisciplinary team conducting computational and experimental research on carbon materials such as amorphous carbons, nanoporous carbons, nanodiamonds, and carbides. The group's work includes developing the online Carbon Potentials tool for comparing interatomic potentials, simulating graphitization processes, investigating nanodiamond nucleation in amorphous carbons, and depositing amorphous carbon thin films via high-power impulse magnetron sputtering. Marks earned his PhD in 1997 from the University of Sydney. His early career featured postdoctoral research at the University of Sydney and the University of Melbourne, followed by positions at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation and Queen’s University Belfast. He then spent five years as a teaching and research academic at the University of Sydney before joining Curtin University in 2008 to establish a nuclear materials simulation program centered on carbon-based systems.