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Academic Staff
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Prof Tanya M. Monro
Chair of Photonics and Director of CoEP
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Research areas: Design, fabrication and device applications of new classes of soft glass microstructured optical fibers, including work on new transmission fibres, highly nonlinear fibres, chem/bio sensing with new fibres and novel fibre lasers.
Since 2005, Tanya Monro has been the Chair of Photonics and the Director of the Centre of Expertise in Photonics within the School of Chemistry & Physics at the University of Adelaide. From 1998 to 2004, Tanya worked at the ORC at the University of Southampton, UK, on silica and soft glass microstructured optical fibers. Prior to this she completed a PhD at the University of Sydney, Australia, on self-written waveguides in photosensitive glasses. Her current research within the Centre of Expertise in Photonics focuses on the design, fabrication and device applications of new classes of soft glass microstructured optical fibers, including work on new transmission fibres, highly nonlinear fibres, chem/bio sensing with new fibres and novel fibre lasers.
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Dr Heike Ebendorff-Heidepriem
Deputy Director of CoEP
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Research areas: Glass and materials chemistry, preform fabrication, soft-glass extrusion techniques
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Dr Shahraam Afshar V.
Post-doctoral researcher
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Research areas: Optical waveguide theory, waveguide modelling, nonlinear optics, fibre sensing. |
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Dr David Lancaster
Post-doctoral researcher - Adjunct Professor
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Research areas: Fibre lasers. |
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Dr Yinlan Ruan
Post-doctoral researcher
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Research areas: Fibre sensing. |
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Dr Richard White
Post-doctoral researcher
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Research areas: Nonlinear optics and sensing.
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Dr Daniel White
Post-doctoral researcher
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Research areas: Chemical and biological sensing.
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Dr Alexandre Francoise
Post-doctoral researcher
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Research areas: Chemical and biological sensing.
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Administrative Staff
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Ms Sara Boffa
Senior administrative assistant
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Olivia Towers
Office Administrator
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Mr Hashan Tilanka Munasinghe
Website administrator
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Technical Staff
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Mr Herbert Foo
Lab technician
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Research areas: Glass chemistry, soft-glass fabrication techniques. |
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Mr Roger Moore
Fibre drawing technician
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Research areas: Fibre drawing techniques. |
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Mr Alastair Dowler
Lab technician
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Mr Kevin Kuan
Research officer
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Research areas: Responsible for glass fabrication & providing technical support with general chemical activities. |
Students
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Ms Shaghik Atakaramians
PhD student
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Research areas: Terahertz waveguides, terahertz sensing, porous anti-guiding fibres. |
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Mr Keiron Boyd
PhD student
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Research areas: Fibre tapers, fibre tapering techniques, optical nanowires, nonlinear fibre optics, supercontinuum generation. |
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Mr Sean Manning
PhD student
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Research areas: χ² nonlinear fibre optics, optical fibre poling techniques, dielectric-metal fibres, surface plasmonics, nanophotonics. |
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Mr Michael Oermann
PhD student
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Research areas: Fibre sensing with novel optical fibres. |
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Mr Kristopher J. Rowland
PhD student
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Research areas: Soft-glass photonic bandgap fibres, optical waveguide theory, waveguide modelling, waveguide guidance mechanisms. |
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Mr Erik Schartner
PhD student
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Research areas: Fibre sensing. |
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Mr Stephen Warren-Smith
PhD student
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Research areas: Optical fibre theory, fibre coupling. |
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Mr Wenqi Zhang
PhD student
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Research areas: Nonlinear fibre optics, fibre dispersion, optical fibre theory, novel fibre designs for flattend dispersion. |
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Mr M. Samiul Islam Sarker
PhD student
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Research areas: Mid infrared fibre lasers. |
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Mr Michael Bammann
PhD student
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Research areas: Large mode area near infra-red fibres. |
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Mr Anthony Slattery
Honours student
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Research areas: development of dip sensors for detecting specific contaminants in water.
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Mr Jonathan Boehm
Honours student
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Research areas: fibre based point of care sensors for virus detenction.
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