Ajay Pandey is a Senior Lecturer in Robotics and Autonomous Systems at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He was awarded a PhD on the physics and models of plastic photovoltaic devices with mention tres honourable from Université d’Angers, France. He holds a Master of Technology (M. Tech.) degree in Laser Science & Applications and a Master of Science (M. Sc.)degree in Physics with specialisation in Atomic, Molecular and Laser Spectroscopy. Prior to his current appointment he held a prestigious Vice Chancellor’s Senior Research Fellowship in Medical Robotics at QUT and Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) Research Fellowship in Singlet Fission at the University of Queensland. His previous appointments include postdoctoral researcher cum junior group leader in Organic Photovoltaics at the University of Queensland and a postdoctoral research fellow position in Color-selective image sensors for digital imaging and machine vision at School of Physics and Astronomy with Prof. Ifor Samuel at University of St Andrews, UK.
He has broad experience in the field of advanced organic optoelectronics research. He has developed and published novel physical processes of technological importance to photo detection, energy conversion and energy up-converted electroluminescence in thin film organic semiconductor heterojunctions. His publications in this discipline have often set the research agenda and reinvigorated the subject of colour selective light detection, harvesting of dark triplet states in energy conversion and up- converted electroluminescence (Singlet fission and Triplet Exciton Dynamics in Rubrene/Fullerene Heterojunctions: Implications for Electroluminescence, Advanced Electronic Materials, 1, 1500229, 2015) in organic semiconductors. Dr Ajay Pandey’s work is consistently cited by top academic as well as industrial research groups. He has published >50 research articles in the field of organic optoelectronics that have attracted >1500 citations (source Google Scholar; https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=xLA_Xr8AAAAJ&hl=en).
He leads an interdisciplinary research group at QUT that specialises in technological implementation of advanced functional materials for applications in Intelligent Bionics, Medical Robotics, Soft Robotics, Energy conversion and Night Vision.  He also serves as an Editorial Board Member of Scientific Reports- a Springer Nature Group journal. As Editor of this open-access interdisciplinary journal he handles manuscripts falling within the interdisciplinary mix of Photonics, Chemical Physics, Molecular and Printed Electronics and Medical Physics.