Careers

Alexandre received his BSc in 2001 from the Institute of Science and Technology of Grenoble (France) with the last year as international exchange student at the University of Texas at Austin (USA), his MSc in 2002 from the University Claude Bernard in Lyon (France) and his PhD from the University of Sherbrooke (Canada) in 2006. During his PhD, Alexandre worked on a microfabrication technology based on the Quantum Well Intermixing process for the integration of monolithic mode locked laser diodes and supraluminescent laser diodes for telecom applications such as Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing. Alexandre joined the CoEP as post doctoral fellow in November 2008 after 2 years working as research fellow for Fujirebio Inc. (Japan), on a novel optical label free biosensing technology based on Whispering Gallery Mode. His research are dedicated to optical biosensing with microstructured optical fibres using either label free technologies such as Surface Plasmon Resonance and Whispering Gallery Modes or non label free technologies.

Alexandre is the author of 4 refereed journal papers, 8 conference papers, and 3 patents.

Yinlan received a BSc in Electronic Materials in 1991 and MSc in Optoelectronic Engineering in 1996 from Huazhong University of Science and Technology , China, and a PhD in Physical Science and Engineering from The Australian National University in 2005. Her paper published during her PhD work in 2004 has since been cited 73 times. In 2005, Yinlan took a 4 month research visit to the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) supported by the Endeavor Australia CheungKong Award. Her visit led to four co-authored journal papers.

Yinlan joined the CoEP as a postdoctoral fellow in 2005 and was awarded an Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship (APD) in 2008. Her research areas include design and fabrication of microstructured fibres, and their applications in sensing, near-field imaging, nonlinear processes, lithography, and coupling to planar nano-waveguides.

Yinlan is the co-author of 23 refereed journal papers, 15 conference papers, and 2 published patents.

David Lancaster has a BSc in Physics from UNSW (Hons I) and a PhD in Laser Physics from Macquarie University (1997). This was followed bythree years as a Research Fellow at Rice University in Houston, Texas before joining DSTO in 2000 as a Research Scientist where his research interests have included solid-state lasers, fibre lasers, frequency conversion and directed infrared countermeasures. He leads a team of six researchers developing these technology areas as well as maintaining research publication output. To develop collaborative links between DSTO and the COEP, David took up a role as an Adjunct Associate Professor at Adelaide University in early 2008, and his COEP research areas are fluoride micro-structured optical fibres and development of rare earth doped non-silicate fibre lasers operating in the Mid-IR.

David has 24 published refereed papers, and in the last 8 years more than 30 conference papers.

Mark graduated with a BSc in Optics and Photonics from the University of Adelaide in 2007. In 2008 he completed his Honours (I) taking up a research project with the CoEP. Mark has since gone on to start work on  a PhD at Swinburne University, Melbourne. Here is something Mark had to say about his time as an Honours student:

The CoEP provided me with an honours project at the forefront of worldwide research and I was able to present my work at the International Commission for Optics congress in Sydney. The CoEP is a professional and dynamic research group consisting of a friendly team of professors, post-docs and students.My time at the University of Adelaide has been an experience that has certainly shaped my life and has opened up my opportunities to seek further research or employment within a broad variety of industries.

Richard received his BSc (Hons) and MSc from the University of Otago, New Zealand in 1995 and 1998, respectively, and his PhD degree from Macquarie University, Sydney in 2005.  During his PhD, Richard worked on coherent sources based on quasi-phase-matched nonlinear-optical (NLO) materials.  Since then he has worked in several areas, including the development of NLO polymers for telecommunications applications and ultra-high-performance optical parametric oscillators for precision spectroscopy.  Richard joined the CoEP as a postdoctoral research fellow in 2008. His research includes optical-fibre sensors, supercontinuum generation and other NLO processes in microstructured optical fibres.

Richard is the co-author of 13 refereed journal papers, 29 conference presentations and one book chapter. 

Kris completed his BSc in Theoretical Physics at the University of Adelaide in 2005. In 2005 he completed an Honours (I) under the supervision of Prof Monro. Kris then began a PhD and is one of the first people to be involved with the CoEP. Here is something Kris had to say about his experience:

I feel lucky to have had the opportunity to prepare myself for a career in Physics at the University of Adelaide. I thoroughly enjoyed my undergraduate degree here. In 2005 I was very fortunate to have had the opportunity to complete my honours year under the supervision of Prof. Tanya Monro. The experience left me with no hesitation as to starting a PhD within the centre. Now in the final year of my PhD, I can appreciate that the skill and experience I have gained here is truly world-class.

Daniel completed a BMm/BEng with Honours (I) in 2003 at Swinburne Univerisity of Technology. He then completed his PhD in 2008 at Swinburne's Centre for Atom Optics & Ultrafast Spectroscopy where he was involved in the development of miniature, implantable bio-chemical sensors. In 2006, he was awawrded the Nanovic Post-graduate prize for nanotechnology research. Daniel joined the CoEP in 2009. His work is based around leveraging the centre's fibre fabrication abilities to produce novel sensor technologies.

Daniel is the author of 8 refereed journal papers, 8 conference papaers and is the co-author of a book chapter.