Team Members
Prof. Patrick Kluth
Group Leader
Prof. Patrick Kluth works on solid-state nanopores - fabrication, characterisation and applications, material modification through ion irradiation and implantation methods, and synchrotron-based X-ray techniques.
Shankar Dutt
Postdoctoral Fellow
Shankar Dutt works on versatile solid-state nanopore membranes - fabrication, characterisation and applications. He also works on the fundamental understanding and characterisation of latent tracks in a wide variety of materials.
Xingshuo Huang
Postdoctoral Fellow
Xingshuo Huang works on high-pressure compressed carbon materials.
Prof. Jodie Bradby
Group Leader
Jodie Bradby is Head of the Department of Materials Physics at the Research School of Physics at ANU. Her areas of interest are high-pressure physics, carbon materials, amorphous materials and mechanical properties.
Dr. Qingbo Sun
Postdoctoral Fellow
Qingbo Sun works on materials under extreme conditions.
Nahid Afrin
Doctoral Student
Nahid Afrin works on solid-state nanopores and their surface chemistry.
Prof. Jim Williams
Emeritus Professor
Jim Williams works on the physics of materials that form the basis of the semiconductor industry, particularly on the use of ion-beam methods to characterise and modify the properties of those materials.
Dr. Buddini Karawdeniya
Postdoctoral Fellow
Buddini Karawdeniya works on solid-state nanopore sensing, controlled breakdown, nanopore surface manipulation.
Taleb Alwadi
Doctoral Student
Taleb Alwadi works on nanoporous semiconductors for energy applications.
Hendrik Heimes
Doctoral Student
Hendrik works on phase transformations in carbon materials under extreme conditions.