Akshay is Professor of Physics at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge. He obtained in BSc from St Stephen’s College, University of Delhi, in 2006 and MSc from the University of Sheffield in 2007. He completed his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 2011 under the supervision of Prof. Sir Richard Friend, following which he held a Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) at Corpus Christi College, before establishing his independent research group in 2014. His research interests lie in the study energy materials, in particular to elucidate the fundamental electronic, structural and transport dynamics of these materials and help guide the design of novel materials and devices for applications in photovoltaics, LEDs and batteries. He is co-founder of Cambridge Photon Technology and Illumion.