Director
Professor Paul Mulvaney FAA FRACI FRSC
mulvaney@unimelb.edu.au
Paul Mulvaney is the Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science and Professor of Chemistry in the School of Chemistry at the University of Melbourne.
He was a recent ARC Laureate Fellowfrom 2011-2015 and an ARC Federation Fellow from 2006-2010. He served as Chair of the Australian Academy of Science National Committee for Chemistry from 2014-2016.
Paul received his PhD degree at the University of Melbourne in 1989, working on electron transfer kinetics with Professor Franz Grieser. His other mentors have been Dr. Dani Meisel from the Argonne National Laboratories (1986-1988) and Prof. Arnim Henglein at the Hahn-Meitner Institute (1989-1992).
The ARC Centre for Exciton Science (2017-2023) has as its vision “Next-Generation Light Harvesting Molecules for a Sustainable Energy Future”. The goal of this research is to create a team that can discover and develop new ways to harness sunlight for energy storage; develop more energy efficient devices for light generation such as LEDs; and also look at optical sensors for security and environmental applications.
Staff
Dr James A. Hutchison
ARC Future Fellow
james.hutchison@unimelb.edu.au
Graduated: PhD, University of Melbourne
Research interests: Plasmonics, Organic Polaritonics, SERS (bio)sensing, Energy and electron transfer
Dr Jialu Li
Research Fellow
jialu.li4@unimelb.edu.au
Graduated: PhD Physics, Harbin Institute of Technology
Research interests: Photodetectors based on 2D materials; Microelectromechanical systems based on 2D materials.
Dr Liam Hall
DECRA Research Fellow
liam.hall@unimelb.edu.au
Dr Liam Hall is an Associate Investigator with the ARC Centre for Excellence in Exciton Science. Hailing from a complementary background in quantum and condensed matter physics, Liam brings with him new expertise in the field of quantum sensing, with the potential to enrich research programs at the interface of chemistry and physics.
Liam’s DECRA research program addresses the challenge of in situ monitoring of chemical composition in microscopic reaction systems on timescales previously inaccessible to nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) techniques.
Dr Wei Luo
Research Fellow
w.luo@unimelb.edu.au
Graduated: PhD, OLED/Graphene Optoelectronic Devices, Chongqing Institute of Green and Intelligent Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Research interests:
Dr Nicholas Kirkwood
Industry Liaison Manager
nrk@unimelb.edu.au
Graduated: PhD Chemistry, University of Melbourne (2016)
Research interests: Synthesis and characterisation of semiconductor nanocrystals
Students
Arun Ashokan (PhD)
aashokan@student.unimelb.edu.au
Graduated: BS-MS, IISER- Thiruvananthapuram, India
Research interests: Quantum dots, Inorganic synthesis
Other interests: Walking, Soccer, Cricket
Ben Tadgell (PhD)
btadgell@student.unimelb.edu.au
Graduated: MSc, University of Melbourne
Research Interests: Ultra-fast Spectroscopy, Colloidal Systems, Chemical Sensors
Other Interests: Hiking, Surfing, Hockey
Angela Keyte (PhD)
a.keyte@student.unimelb.edu.au
Graduated: MSc Chemistry, The University of Melbourne.
Dingchen Wen (PhD)
wend@student.unimelb.edu.au
Graduated: MSc, University of Melbourne
Dingchen is an PhD student at the University of Melbourne supervised by Prof. Paul Mulvaney. His PhD project focuses on developing novel synthesis protocols for III-V semiconductor nanocrystals and fine control of nanocrystal growth. He completed an Honours degree involving synthesising anisotropic magnetic nanoparticles and its alignment in magnetic field. He also looked at its optical properties at different orientations.
Eliza Rokhsat (PhD)
erokhsat@student.unimelb.edu.au
Research Interests: AFM Based Nanomechanical Sensing
Samantha Zaman (PhD)
samanthaz@student.unimelb.edu.au
Graduated: MSc, University of Melbourne
Joint PhD student with KU Leuven under the supervision of Dr James Hutchinson and Prof Susana Rocha.
Topic: novel nanomaterials for singlet oxygen generation for photodynamic therapy
Zifei Chen (PhD)
zifechen@student.unimelb.edu.au
Graduated: MSc, University of Melbourne
Zifei is a Ph.D. student working with Professor Paul Mulvaney and Prof. Salvy Russo. His research mainly focuses on theoretical investigation (including density functional theory, classical and path integral molecular dynamics, machine learning etc.) of mechanical and optical properties in quantum confined systems.
Yixiong Ji (PhD)
yixiongj@student.unimelb.edu.au
Graduated: MSc, University of Melbourne
Yixiong is a Ph.D. student working with Professor Paul Mulvaney. His research focuses mainly on the development of non-toxic inorganic nanomaterials for energy transfer and interfaces engineering of CZTSSe based solar cells. Such as the back contact modifications, low-cost ITO-free window layers (transparent conducting films) with excellent photoelectric properties, and photons management in CZTSSe based solar cells.
Yihan Dong (PhD)
y.dong19@student.unimelb.edu.au
Graduated: MSc, University of Melbourne
Yihan is a masters student at The University of Melbourne. Her research interest is focusing on the controlled self-assembly of metal nanoparticles into ordered structures. She wants to build Lego structures using metal nanoparticles one day!
She is currently working on assembling gold nanoparticles into dimers.