Education

• BSc. Honours (Physics) University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, October 2010
• PhD Physics and Engineering Physics, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, October 2016

Awards

• Saskatchewan Innovation and Opportunity Scholarship (April 2012)
• NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship, D3 (April 2012)
• Department of Physics and Engineering Physics Graduate Teaching Fellowship (2011)
• Most Outstanding Graduate in Physics, Convocation 2010
• University Medal in the Sciences, Convocation 2010
• NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award (Summer 2008-2010)
• University College London Dean's Summer Student Fellowship (Summer 2010)
• Gerry Rempel Memorial Scholarship (2008, 2009)
• James F. Mathison Scholarship (2010)
• Undergradute Researcher of Tomorrow Fellowship (Summer 2008)

Publications

1. Oxidized Monolayers of Expitaxial Silicene on Ag(111)
   N.W. Johnson, D. Muir and A. Moewes, Scientific Reports 6, 22510 (2016). [5.6]
2. Stability and Electronic Characteristics of Epitaxial Silicene Multilayers on Ag(111)
   N.W. Johnson, D. Muir, E.Z. Kurmaev, and A. Moewes. Adv. Func. Mat. 25, 4083-4090 (2015).
3. Investigations of the Electronic Structure and Bandgap of the Next-generation LED-phosphor Sr[LiAl₃N₄]:Eu²⁺ – Experiments and calculations
   T.M. Tolhurst, T.D. Boyko, P. Pust, N.W. Johnson, W. Schnick, and A. Moewes, Advanced Optical Materials 3, 546-550 (2015).
4. The Metallic Nature of Epitaxial Silicene Monolayers on Ag(111)
   N.W. Johnson, P. Vogt, A. Resta, P. De Padova, I. Perez, D. Muir, E.Z. Kurmaev, G. Le Lay, and A. Moewes, Adv. Func. Mat. 24, 5253-5259 (2014).
5. Magnesium Double Nitride Mg₃GaN₃ and Binary Nitride Mg₃N₂ as New Host Lattices for Eu²⁺-Doping – Synthesis, Structural Studies, Luminescence and Band Gap Determination
   F. Hintze, N.W. Johnson, M. Seibald, D. Muir, A. Moewes, and W. Schnick, Chem. Mat. 25, 4044-4052 (2013).
6. Electronic structure of Lithium metagallate
   N. Johnson, J.A. McLeod and A. Moewes, J. Phys. Cond. Matt. 23, 445501-6 (2011).
7. Contrasting 1D Tunnel Structured and 2D Layered Polymorphs of V₂O₅: Relating Stucture and Bonding to Band Gaps and Electronic Structure
   T.M. Tolhurst, B. Leedahl, J.L. Andrews, P.M. Marley, S. Banerjee, and A. Moewes, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 18, 15798-15806 (2016).
8. Selective Area Band Engineering of Graphene using Cobalt-Mediated Oxidation
   P. Bazylewski, V.L. Nguyen, R.P.J. Bauer, A.H. Hunt, E.J.G. McDermott, B.D. Leedahl, A.I. Kukharenko, S.O. Cholakh, E.Z. Kurmaev, P. Blaha, A. Moewes, Y.H. Lee, G.S. Chang, Sci. Reports 5, 15380 (2015). 
9. Adjacent Fe-Vacancy Interactions as the Origin of Room Temperature Ferromagnetism in (In_1-xFe_x)₂O₃
   R.J. Green, T.Z. Regier, B. Leedahl, J.A. McLeod, X.H. Xu, G.S. Chang, E.Z. Kurmaev, and A. Moewes, Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 167401 (2015).
10. Study of the Structural Characteristics of 3d metals Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, and Cu Implanted in ZnO and TiO₂ – Experiment and Theory
    B. Leedahl, D.Z. Zatsepin, D.W. Boukhvalov, E.Z. Kurmaev, R.J. Green, I.S. Zhidkov, S.S. Kim, N.V. Gavrilov, S.O. Cholak, and A. Moewes, J. Phys. Chem. C 118, 28143-28151 (2014).
11. Local Structure of Fe Impurity Atoms in ZnO: Bulk versus Surface
    J.A. McLeod, D.W. Boukhvalov, D.Z. Zatsepin, R.J. Green, B. Leedahl, L. Chui, E.Z. Kurmaev, I.S. Zhidkov, L.D. Finkelstein, N.V. Gavrilov, S.O. Cholakh, and A. Moewes, J. Phys. Chem. C 118, 5336-5345 (2014).
12. Electronic Band gap reduction and intense luminescence in Co and Mn ion-implanted SiO₂
    R.J. Green, D.A. Zatsepin, D.J. St. Onge, E.Z. Kurmaev, N.V. Gavrilov, and A. Moewes, J. Appl. Phys. 115, 103708-1-7 (2014).
13. Structural defects induced by Fe-ion implantation in TiO₂
    B. Leedahl, D.A. Zatsepin, D.W. Boukhvalov, R.J. Green, J.A. McLeod, S.S. Kim, E.Z. Kurmaev, I.S. Zhidkov, N.V. Gavrilov, S.O. Cholakh, and A. Moewes, J. Appl. Physics 115, 053711-1-7 (2014).