News archive

2008

Prof Min Gu has been awarded the Senior Membership of the International Society of Electric and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). Senior Member is the highest grade for which IEEE members can apply and requires at least 10 years professional practice and significant performance during the last 5 years of professional practice.

Nature Publishing Group Asia Materials has selected a recent CMP publication as a featured highlight this month. The highlighted paper was published in Advanced Materials and is titled " Engineering spontaneous emission in a quantum-dot-doped polymer nanocomposite with three-dimensional photonic crystals" by Michael J. Ventura and Min Gu. It describes the modification of the spontaneous emission rate of lead-selenide quantum dots embedded in a three-dimensional woodpile photonic crystal.

MB BS PhD FRACP Alex Boussioutas from Melbourne University, the Western Hospital and the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre has been appointed by the Swinburne University Council as an Associate Professorial Fellow at the Centre for Micro-Photonics. He has extensive knowledge and expertise in Gastroenterology. Associate Professor Boussioutas will be actively involved in the nonlinear endoscopy project.

Recently the "Handbook of Biomedical Nonlinear Optical Microscopy" was released by Oxford University Press. This book was edited by Prof. Barry Masters and Prof. Peter So, and contains a contribution from Prof. Min Gu. It provides comprehensive treatment of the theories, techniques, and biomedical applications of nonlinear optics and microscopy for cell biologists, life scientists, biomedical engineers, and clinicians.

Congratulations to Prof. Min Gu for a successful bid to host the next meeting in the Sir Mark Oliphant Conference - International Frontiers of Science and Technology conference series. "Nanophotonics Down Under 2009" will be held in Melbourne from 21st - 24th June 2009. Please click here for the conference website.

Mr. Jiafang Li and Mr. Xiangping Li have been awarded a prestigious Chinese government award for outstanding self financed students abroad. This prize was awarded by the Minister of Education of China. This worldwide competitive award is founded by the Chinese government since 2003. There are only 301 recipients worldwide, of which Australia has 21.

Congratulations to Michael Ventura who has received the first prize for the best staff poster presentation at the 7th CUDOS Workshop held in Murramarang Resort, NSW, Australia.

Our congratulations to Smitha Kuriakose who was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy for her thesis titled 'Characterisation of near field optical trapping and biological applications'.

2007

The minister for education has announced the outcome of the ARC grant scheme. The CMP was succesfull in gaining four highly competitive ARC grants this year:

ARC Linkage
Prof. M. Gu, and Dr. D. Morrish
Project Title: Spectroscopy of complex and biological micro-objects for biosensing applications

ARC Linkage International
Dr. D. Day, and Prof. K. Sasaki
Project Title: Nanometric optical sensing for characterisation of microbioreactors

Prof. M. Gu, Dr. G. Zhou, Prof. T. Wilson, and Dr. M.J. Booth
Project Title: Adaptive aberration compensation in high refractive index materials for next-generation active microphotonic devices

ARC Discovery
Prof. M. Gu, Dr. A. Boussioutas, and Dr. H. Xie
Project Title: Functional nonlinear optical endoscopy - the third-generation optical endoscopy technology toward early cancer detection at a cellular level

A CMP research paper on three dimensional edoscopy that appeared in the Journal of Biomedical Optics has been selected as one of five research highlights in the latest Technology Focus issue in Nature Photonics. The paper describes the use of a double clad photonic crystal fibre combined with a 2 dimensional MEMS mirror for three dimensional imaging of deep tissue.

Professor Min Gu has been elected to the council of the Australian Optical Society for a period of 2 years (2007-2009). The Australian Optical Society (AOS) is a non-profit organisation for the advancement of optics in Australia.

Professor David Haylock from the Australian Stem Cell Centre has been appointed by the Swinburne University Council as a Professorial Fellow at the Centre for Micro-Photonics. He has extensive knowledge and expertise in the biology of human haemopoietic stem and progenitor cells. Professor Haylock will be actively involved in the bioreactor project.

Our congratulations to Prof. Sarah Russell for her recent publication in Science titled "Asymmetric T Lymphocyte Division in the Initiation of Adaptive Immune Responses" (Science 315, 1687-1691 (2007)).

Our congratulations to Ms. Ling Fu who was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy by Research for her thesis titled "Fibre-optic Nonlinear Optical Microscopy and Endoscopy".

Our congratulations to Ms. Baohua Jia who received the degree Doctor of Philosophy by Research for her thesis titled "A study on the complex evanescent focal region of a high numerical aperture objective and its applications".

Our congratulations to Professor Min Gu who has been elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. He is one of only 16 people to be elected onto this distinguished panel for 2007.

Our congratulations to Professor Min Gu who has been awarded a Cheung Kong Scholars Program Guest Professor in the field of Biophotoincs from the Chinese Ministry of Education. The Cheung Kong Professorship award is considered to be one of the most prestigious academic awards in China. Its Guest Professor Award is given to professors who have outstanding academic distinction abroad to participate in research activities at high-ranked universities in China.

2006

The Centre for Micro-Photonics is please to announce that it will be hosting the 2007 '3rd Asian and Pacific Rim Symposium on Biophotonics' & 'Biophotonics Downunder II' in Cairns, Australia from the 9-11 of July 2007. For further information please visit http://www.swinburne.edu.au/hosting/apbp2007/

Our congratulations to Professor Min Gu whose election to the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE) has just been announced.

Our congratulations to Dr Zeev Bomzon who has been awarded the Young Researcher Award. The award will fund his attendance at the FEAST conference 2006, Research Without Borders in Canberra, 28-29 November.

Congratulations to Mujahid Ashraf who has been awarded a Masters of Engineering.

The CMP is launching a new industry collaboration project with leading company Optiscan. The project is focused on the development of a prototype of non-linear endoscopes

Congratulations to James Chon who has been appointed as an ongoing senior lecturer for the Centre for Micro-Photonics.

Congratulations to Sarah Russell who has had her paper "Ligation of the cell surface receptor, CD46, alters T cell polarity and response to antigen presentation" pubilshed in PNAS.

Congratulations to Richard Evans who has been appointed a Adjuct Professor for the Centre for Micro-Photonics.

Congratulations to Zeev Bomzon who has been awarded a grant from the Ronald Geoffrey Arnott Foundation.

Congratulations to Min Gu who was successful in securing the Visiting Professor Award Scheme Grant. The Grant will allow Professor Barry Masters from MIT to visit and collaborate with the CMP next year.

Congratulations to Michael Ventura who is one of the two first prize winners at the 2006 CUDOS workshop student poster competition.