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Andrei Zvyagin, PhD OBIS group leader Andrei's research interests lie exclusively in the area of Biophotonics, focused on optical biomedical imaging and sensing, directed towards imaging in live tissue and cells, and aspired by the possibility of detecting single biomolecules. His research horizons are, otherwise, broad and include optical scanning near-field microscopy, optical coherence tomography, fibre optic spectroscopy for biological assaying in vivo , multiphoton microscopy, photoreceptor optics, and novel optical labels for intracellular imaging. Andrei was born in Russia. He received a Diploma from the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Russia, and the PhD degree in Engineering from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, in 1984 and 1997, respectively. From 1984 to 1994, he spanned a range of positions from an Engineer to Senior Research Scientist in the Institute of Metrology for Time and Space, Moscow, Russia, focussing on research and metrological aspects of time and frequency standards based on trapped ions. From 1998 to 2000, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Optical+Biomedical Engineering Laboratory, The University of Western Australia, and from 2000-2004, became an Australian Postdoctoral Fellow, studying optical coherence tomography for biomedical imaging applications. From 2004-2005, he joined the Centre for Biophotonics and Laser Science as a Lecturer/Australian Research Fellow, and was promoted to a Senior Lecturer/ Australian Research Fellow since 2006. From 2007, he is an Associate Professor in Physics, Macquarie University, Sydney. Email: andrei.zvyagin@mq.edu.au |
Tim Kelf, PhD
Tim received his PhD from the University of Southampton in 2006; his research primarily concerned the study of Surface Plasmon Polaritons on nanostructured surfaces. Related to this work he also studied the coupling between surface plasmons and molecules through the observation of angle resolved enhanced Raman scattering and enhanced fluorescence. In 2006 Tim moved to the Solid State Physics Laboratory in Hokkaido University to study the ultra-fast vibrational properties of micro- and nano-structures and the imaging of surface acoustic waves. Tim’s interests include travel, photography and Japanese, for a full list of publications and copies of previous presentations please see http://www.timkelf.com/PresentedWork.html
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Hua Liu
Hua’s area of expertise is Opto-electronics and solid-state lasers, focused on high power lasers in laser machining and medical applications, UV and Infrared tunable lasers system in Biophotonics research and applications. In 1993, he received his Bsc from Changchun Institute of Optics and Fine Machine, China. From 1993 to 2000, he worked in various positions from National research institute of Opto-Electronics to industrial leading High-tech. company in China, responsible for design, manufacture and service for a various laser systems, also involving in the management of new application project collaborated with research institute and university. |
Varun Sreenivasan
Varun has interest in optical imaging techniques like confocal microscopy, multi-photon microscopy and correlation spectroscopy, both developing and their application into biology. The biological questions regarding various interactions of bio-molecules and their macro consequences is the area of his focus. He completed postgraduate studies from Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT), Cochin, India by doing MSc Integrated Photonics. He has done several research projects on different areas such as speckle pattern based metrology on metal surfaces, superconductivity and fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS). Supported by MQRES scholarship scheme, he is currently doing PhD in Physics at Macquarie University under the supervision of Dr. Andrei Zvyagin. Email: varun.sreenivasan@mq.edu.au (http://web.science.mq.edu.au/~varun) List of publications: 1. P. C. Ashok, U. Nair, V. K A S, V. N. N.
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Bjornar Sandnes
Bjornar received his Ph.D. from the Department of Physics, University of Oslo (UiO) in 2004. During the Ph.D, his research focused on solar energy systems, thermal energy storage and heterogeneous nucleation in supercooled salt hydrates. In 2004 Bjornar joined the Advanced Materials and Complex Systems Group (UiO). In this postdoc he worked on various projects including pattern formation in non-equilibrium systems, optical tweezers and diffusion in nano-layered clays using synchrotron facilities. From September 2007, Bjornar has been a visiting scholar at the University of Sydney. From January 2008, Bjornar carried out research, as a postdoctoral research fellow in this group. His research focus was on nanodiamonds as optical labels, and multi-photon microscopy. Recently, Bjornar has received a Research Fellowship from the Research Council of Norway, which allowed him to focus on the pattern formation project. At the same time, he holds a position of Visiting Scholar in OBIS, where he pursues research on nanodiamonds, molecular trafficing in neurons, and laser remote sensing of fluorescent objects. |
Zhen Song (Jen)
After Zhen Song’s graduation from the Physics and Microelectronics School (now the Physics Department) of Shandong University, China in 2005, she pursued her Master Research in the Ion beam Research and Application Laboratory in the same department. Her research mainly focused on the fabrication of optical channel waveguide (one of the basic components of integrated optics and optoelectronics), on crystals such as KTA, LiNbO3 etc., using ion beam implantation and thermal diffusion method or the combination. Zhen's PhD research project at Macquarie University under the supervision of A/Professor Andrei Zvyagin, aims to characterize the skin penetrability to nanoparticles versus size distribution, surface charge and chemical modification. The project also aims to develop optical characterization and imaging methodology suitable for in vitro and in vivo application; and synthesis of metal oxide nanoparticles with controllable size distribution and surface functionalization. Another major interest of Zhen's research is to develop a new type of nanoparticle based molecular probe (lanthanide doped nanocrystal) which is suitable for background free deep tissue imaging. Email: zhen.song@mq.edu.au |
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