STAFF
Emeritus Professor Mike Gal
Mike Gal is a Professor of Physics at the University of New South Wales. He is the head of the Optoelectronics Group and also coordinates a highly successful postgraduate program in photonics within the Faculty of Science. His main research interests involve the study of semiconductor materials used in optoelectronics and optical communications and the development of spectroscopic techniques to help identify the nature and dynamics of energy states in semiconductor nanostructures. You can find out more here .
Dr Peter Reece
Peter received a BSc (Hons 1) in medical physics in 1998 and a PhD on mesoporous silicon photonics in 2005, both from the University of New South Wales. After completing his postgraduate studies he spent three years as postdoctoral researcher working on optical micromanipulation and biophotonics at the University of St Andrews in the United Kingdom. Peter returned to the Optoelectronics Group to take up a UNSW Vice Chancellor’s Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship (2008-2010) and currently holds a Lecturer position. Peter’s current interests include (but are not limited to) nanophotonics, silicon photonics, optical biosensors, optical trapping, biophotonics and optofluidics.
POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS
Hong Qiao
Hong completed his BSc degree in analytical chemistry at Lanzhou University. Hong is currently working on new techniques for ultra-sensitive optical bio-sensing using hybrid photonic devices for his PhD thesis.
Supervisor: Professor Justin Gooding (UNSW Chem) / Co-supervisor: Dr Peter Reece.
Bin Guan
Bin completed her BSc and MSc in environmental chemistry at Xiamen University, China. Bin is currently studying optical sensing for single cell monitoring for her PhD thesis.
Supervisor: Professor Justin Gooding (UNSW Chem) / Co-supervisor: Dr Peter Reece.
Anh Pham
Pham completed his BSc in Physics from the Penn. State University, USA and a Graduate Diploma in Photonics and Optoelectronics from UNSW. He is currently studying fast optical processes in mesoporous silicon photonic structures for his MPhil thesis.
Supervisor: Dr Peter Reece / Co-supervisor: Prof Mike Gal.
Craig Johnson
Craig completed his BSc in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, USA. Craig is working in the Optoelectronics Group developing methods for enhancing wavelength conversion effects for improved solar cell efficiencies at long wavelengths.
Supervisor: Prof Gavin Conibeer (UNSW Photovoltaics)/ Co-supervisor: Dr Peter Reece.
Fan Wang
Fan Wang completed a Masters of Science and Technology Photonics and Engineering from UNSW in 2009. He received an International Research Scholarship to explore the application of optical trapping and micromanipulation to semiconductor optoelectronics.
Supervisor: Dr Peter Reece / Co-supervisor: A. Prof. Adam Micolich.
Bakul Gupta
Bakul received her BSc (Hons 1) in Nanotechnology from the University of New South Wales in 2009. In 2010 she received an International Research Scholarship to investigate the use of photonic crystal optical biosensors, for early stage detection of infection in the eye.
Supervisor: Professor Justin Gooding (UNSW Chem) / Co-supervisor: Dr Peter Reece.
Johnny Tang
Johnny completed a Masters of Science and Technology Photonics and Engineering from UNSW in 2009. He is currently employed as a processes engineer at Silana and is concurrently investigating plasmonic coupling in III-V Nitrides structures for UV applications as part of his PhD degree.
Supervisor: Dr Peter Reece / Co-supervisor: Prof Richard Newbury
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
Kellie Pearce
Kellie is a final-year student with the School of Physics and she is completing an Honours research project on spectroscopic interrogation of optically trapped nanoparticles and nanowires.
Supervisor: Dr Peter Reece
Tim Bray
Tim is a final-year student with the School of Physics and he is completing an Honours research project on ultra-fast up-conversion spectroscopy of III-V quantum heterostructures containing Sb.
Supervisor: Dr Peter Reece
PAST MEMBERS
Dr Kris Kilian: PhD (2004-2007)
(NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, The University of Chicago)
Dr Suhrawardi Illyas: MSc (1999-2001), PhD (2003-2007)
(Lecturer, Syiah Kuala University, Indonesia)
Mr John Tann – Laboratory Manager (1985-2007)
(Technical Officer, Australian Museum of Science, Sydney, Australia)
Dr Till Bocking – Postdoctoral Fellow (2004-2006)
(Future Fellow, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Australia)
Professor Gilles Lerondel - International Research Fellow (2001-2003)
(Professor of Optics, Universitie de Technologie de Troyes, France)
Dr Wanhua Zheng - Postdoctoral Fellow (2001 - 2003)
(Professor & Program Director, Chinese Academy of Sciences - Institute for Semiconductors, Beijing, China)
Dr Baoquan Sun - Postdoctoral Fellow (2001 - 2003)
(Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences - Institute for Semiconductors, Beijing, China)
Professor Lap Van Dao - Postdoctoral Fellow (1995-2000)
(Professorial Fellow, Swinburne University, Australia)
Dr Michael Johnston: PhD (1997-1999)
(Lecturer, University of Oxford, UK)
PAST UNDERGRADUATE SCHOLARS
Wen Jun Toe (Physics 2010), Optical trapping and characterisation of semiconductor nanowire, Supervisor: (P. J. Reece / Hoe H. Tan)
Tiffany C. Y. Tang (Phot. Eng. 2009), Osama (Phot. Eng. 2008/09), Kevin Tanumihardja (Phot. Eng. 2008), Victor Vu (Phot. Eng. 2008)
