Joel Leonard van Embden

EDUCATION: - Completed High School at Wesley College in 1994

- Graduated with a Science degree from the University Of Melbourne, 2001

- Honours in Chemistry from the University of Melbourne, 2002

- Currently undertaking PhD in Nanoscience, 2003-

INTERESTS: Poetry, Religion, Swimming, playing pool, Startrek anything fast.

MY FRIENDS:

Here are some of my friends. Phil Wearne (left) and Adam Trevitt (right), both work on trapping gold nanoparticles in a quadrupole ion trap and studying ionisation potentials as a function of particle size! (that’s me on the right)

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECT: Investigating the electron dynamics in novel CdSe nanocrystal systems.

SOMETHING TO PONDER:

“A common mistake people make when designing something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”

THE HITCHHIKERS GUIDE TO THE GALAXY

“When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.”

MARK TWAIN

“Who's cruel idea was it for the word "lisp" to have a "s" in it?”

SOMETHING MORE SERIOUS

Where would I possibly find enough leather

With which to cover the surface of the earth?

But wearing leather just on the soles of my shoes

Is equivalent to covering the earth with it.

Likewise it is not possible for me

To restrain the external course of things;

But should I restrain this mind of mine

What would be the need to restrain all else?

SHANTIDEVA

May I become food and drink in the eons of famine for those poverty-stricken suffers.

May I be a doctor, medicine and nurse for all sick beings in the world until everyone is cured.

SHANTIDEVA

The victorious warriors are those

Who, having disregarded all suffering,

Vanquish the foes of hatred and so forth,

(Common warriors) slay only corpses.

SHANTIDEVA