PhD Student

Nanoscience Laboratory
Bio21 Institute and School of Chemistry
Bio21 Institute
30 Flemington Road
The University of Melbourne
Victoria, 3010
Australia

Currently involved in designing micromechanical devices that involve Brownian ratcheting. Includes rotational as opposed to linear ratchets along with Fokker-Planck simulations of these inherently stochastic processes.

Bachelor of Engineering (Mech.) and Bachelor of Science (Physics), both with Hons., at The University of Melbourne.

• (2005) Honours research project in Physics: High-speed digitization of (Thermal Neutron Capture) Landmine Detector with investigation into coincidence detection of gamma-rays.

• (2004) Research in Planetary Plasma Physics (MPI, Germany): Analysis of particle flux data from Low Energy Magnetospheric Measurement System (LEMMS) on board Cassini spacecraft in orbit around Saturn. Developing software to study the interaction of the solar wind with the complex magnetic field and ionosphere of Saturn. See www.mps.mpg.de/projects/planetary-plasmas/index.html

• (2003) Engineering Research Project: Analysis of the physics of Colloidal Thrusters

• (2003) Engineering Design Project: Design of piezoelectric cantilever actuator for the axially translating sub-system of a Scanning Fibre-Optic Confocal (FOCON) Microscope

• (2000) N.S.F. Undergraduate Researcher (UC Berkeley, USA): Developed and tested plasma physics experiments to be taught in high schools, including currents in vacuum diodes under the space-charge-limited regime (Child-Langmuir Law)