Leaders

Professor Brant Gibson
Deputy Director ARC Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale BioPhotonics
brant.gibson@rmit.edu.au

Professor Brant Gibson is the Deputy Director and RMIT Node Leader of the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale BioPhotonics and previous recipient of an ARC Future Fellowship on Hybrid Diamond Materials for Next Generation Sensing, Biodiagnostic and Quantum Devices. He is an experimentalist who has wide-ranging research interests in the areas of diamond, fluorescent wide band gap nanomaterials, single photon sources, quantum information and sensing, hybrid nanomaterial integration, fibre optics, photonics, biophotonics and multimodal imaging techniques.

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Professor Andrew Greentree,
Professor of Quantum Physics
andrew.greentree@rmit.edu.au

Professor Andrew Greentree is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow and Chief Investigator in the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale BioPhotonics. He is a theoretical physicist who has made important contributions that span quantum science, optics and microscopy, and diamond. He holds several patents for his idea, showing his commitment to translate his theory into practice.  He is a member of the Australian Research Council College of Experts, Fellow of the UK Institute of Physics, and a member of the Australian Institute of Physics.

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Administration Coordinator

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Brooke Nati
brooke.nati@rmit.edu.au

Brooke has worked at RMIT for over 20 years, spending most of this time in Human Resources. Brooke works at two Centres of Excellence, Centre of Exciton Science and Centre for Nanoscale BioPhotonics. She finds it challenging but very rewarding working with such world class researchers and the dedicated operations team in both COEs.

 

Lab Manager

Dr Brian Yang
brian.yang@rmit.edu.au

Brian completed his PhD from the University of New South Wales on Photovoltaic Engineering. Prior to working at RMIT University, he joined a solar company before moving to Swinburne University where he was supporting multiple laser labs as well as wet chemistry and PC2 labs.


Postdoctoral Researchers

 

Dr Amanda Abraham
amanda.abraham@rmit.edu.au

Dr Amanda Abraham is a Postdoctoral Researcher and a Cell Biologist, specialising in understanding cellular interactions with nanomaterials. Her research interests include the development of nanoformulations for bio-imaging and bio-sensing applications. Her current research focuses on the use on nanomaterials for temperature sensing at the cellular level.

 

Dr Marco Capelli
marco.capelli@rmit.edu.au

Dr Marco Capelli is a Postdoctoral Researcher working on material characterisation and optical sensing. He got a Master Degree in physics from Italy and a PhD in applied physics from Australia. His broader interests include novel imaging methods and data processing and automation. He is currently working on how to use the light emitted by diamond defects to precisely measure their environment, with a particular interest toward magnetic field signals.

 

Dr Shuo Li
shuo.li3@rmit.edu.au

Dr Shuo Li is a CNBP Research Fellow, specialising in theoretical modelling of nanophotonics. Her research interests include metamaterials, fibre optics and computational microscopy. Her current focus is exploring algorithmic approaches to enhance resolution of quantum microscopy

 

Dr Qiang Sun
qiang.sun@rmit.edu.au

Dr Qiang Sun is interested in theoretical modelling and numerical simulations on wave optics, such as probing the location of the NV centre in a nano-diamond using the scattered field profiles or the optical force acting on a core-shell particle. He is also interested in heat transfer, fluid dynamics, molecular electrostatics, acoustics in fluid and solid.


Senior Research Fellows

Dr Jean-Philippe Tetienne

jean-philippe.tetienne@rmit.edu.au

Jean-Philippe is an ARC Future Fellow and an experimental physicist. He leads the effort to develop quantum microscopy techniques based on solid-state spin defects and explore their applications for the advanced characterisation of magnetic materials and electronic phenomena. His research interests include spin physics, diamond science, scanning probe microscopy, nanomagnetism and 2D materials.

 

Dr Alastair Stacey
alastair.stacey@rmit.edu.au

Dr Alastair Stacey is a diamond synthesis expert with industry experience and an academic background in quantum applications and bionics. He has worked on quantum defects in diamond, in the Centre for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology, and the development of a diamond-based bionic eye, in the Bionic Vision Australia consortium.

 

Dr Philipp Reineck
philipp.reineck@rmit.edu.au

Dr Philipp Reineck is an ARC DECRA fellow and an associate investigator of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale BioPhotonics. His current focus is the development of fluorescent nanomaterials for imaging and sensing applications and understanding the optical properties of carbon-based nanomaterials.

 

Dr Asma Khalid
asma.khalid@rmit.edu.au

Dr Asma Khalid is a Vice Chancellor Postdoctoral Fellow at RMIT University. Her work focuses on exploring silk for designing and characterising hybrid optical structures that are implantable or injectable in the body. These optically transparent, biocompatible, tunably degradable silk-based materials have wide applications in biosensing, bioimaging and drug release.

 

Dr Blanca del Rosal Rabes
blanca.delrosal@rmit.edu.au

Dr Blanca del Rosal Rabes is an ARC DECRA fellow and Vice Chancellor Postdoctoral Fellow at RMIT University. Her current research focuses on the use of near-infrared fluorescent nanomaterials for imaging and sensing of temperature and electric fields in biomedical applications.


Students

 
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Mitchell De Vries
Phd Student
mitchell.de.vries@rmit.edu.au

Project: Near-infrared Fluorescent Carbon-based Nanomatierals for Bioimaging and Sensing

 

Daniel Stavrevski
Phd Student
s3330654@student.rmit.edu.au

Project: Nano-scale thermometry using lanthanide doped tellurite glass

 

Giannis Thalassinos
Phd Student
s3332436@student.rmit.edu.au

Project: The engineering and characterisation of near-infrared fluorescent nanomaterials for bioimaging and sensing applications

 

Emma Wilson
Phd Student
s3296855@student.rmit.edu.au

Project: The effect of particle size on fluorescent nanodiamonds and cellular interactions for bio-imaging and sensing applications

 

Davin Yue Ming Peng
Phd Student
s3512296@student.rmit.edu.au

Project: Single-photon emission from the nitrogen vacancy centre in nanodiamonds for imaging and sensing applications

 

Roy Styles
Phd Student
s3600722@student.rmit.edu.au

Project: Cellular voltage sensing with nitrogen-vacancy centers in nanodiamonds

 

Laura Hung
Phd Student
s3658069@student.rmit.edu.au

Project: Investigation of hybrid silk material for potential pH and temperature sensing in biological applications

 

Mohamad Javed Badaloo
Phd Student
s3370041@student.rmit.edu.au

Project: Space-based Quantum Diamond Magnetometry


Postdoctoral Researchers - Alumni

 
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Dr Dongbi Bai
dongbi.bai@rmit.edu.au

Dr Dongbi Bai received a PhD in Optics from East China Normal University in 2016. She then worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the School of Physics at RMIT University. Her research interests include fibre lasers, fibre optics and fluorescent diamond materials in sensing applications.

 
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Dr Simone Lamon
simone.lamon@rmit.edu.au

Dr Simone Lamon is a CNBP Research Fellow at RMIT University. His research interests include fluorescent nanomaterials for super-resolution microscopy imaging and fibre-optic sensing applications.