Computational social science, political communication, public attention, artificial intelligence and media technology, and digital media ecosystem.

Energy and sustainability, carbon capture and removal, decarbonisation, critical materials and minerals, bioinspired soft matter, supramolecular and porous materials, polymer science and engineering, and clean air and clean water.

Deciphering and engineering the chemical ecology of host–microbiome symbioses.

Urban building energy modelling, urban scale simulations, healthy buildings, AI/machine learning for cities, and technology policy

Anthony’s research explores hybrid quantum systems involving spins, photons, phonons, and magnons, with a focus on travelling excitations in extended materials. Using diamond quantum sensors and engineered material platforms, his group develops quantum measurement and imaging tools for probing nanoscale phenomena in complex physical environments.

Data-driven control systems, machine learning in closed-loop systems, and safe intelligent robotics.

Electrocatalysis, sustainable hydrogen production, carbon-free energy conversion, catalytic materials design, reaction mechanism analysis, electrochemical resource recovery, clean energy technologies. 

Data Science, High-dim Stats, Optimal Transport, Probability, Quantitative Finance

Financial economics, innovation, and intermediation, focusing on emerging technologies such as blockchain, decentralised finance (DeFi), and artificial intelligence.

Socio-economic history of the Chinese Communist Revolution; war, society, and economy in China and Asia; global history of China's reform.