Performance

Personnel

Personnel Lists

Paul Mulvaney

University of Melbourne

Udo Bach

Monash University

Jared Cole

RMIT University

Alison M. Funston

Monash University

Ken Ghiggino

University of Melbourne

Jacek Jasieniak

Monash University

Girish Lakhwani

University of Sydney

Dane McCamey

UNSW Sydney

Salvy Russo

RMIT University

John Sader

University of Melbourne

Timothy Schmidt

UNSW Sydney

Trevor Smith

University of Melbourne

Asaph Widmer-Cooper

University of Sydney

Wallace Wong

University of Melbourne

Kate McGeoch

Chief Operating Officer

University of Melbourne

Kate Hall

Finance Manager

University of Melbourne

Niki Strachan

Media and Communications Officer

University of Melbourne

Jasmine Lynch

Outreach Officer*

University of Melbourne

Josh Ezackial

Outreach Officer**

University of Melbourne

Johanna Monk

Central Administrator

University of Melbourne

Sam Gaul

Node Administrator

University of Melbourne

Jenny Chen

Node Administrator

Monash University

Brooke Nati

Node Administrator

RMIT University

Piumika Perera

Node Administrator

UNSW Sydney

Michelle Sullivan

Node Administrator

University of Sydney

*Parental Leave started in May 2021

**Commenced May 2021

Gregory Barbante**

Defence; Science and Technology Group

Anthony Chesman

CSIRO

Genevieve Dennison*

Defence; Science and Technology Group

Greg Dicinoski

Reserve Bank of Australia

ChunLei Du*

CIGIT; Chinese Academy of Sciences

Xingzhan Wei**

CIGIT; Chinese Academy of Sciences

Xiao Tao Hao

Shandong University

Timothy James

Reserve Bank of Australia

Markus Lippitz*

Universität Bayreuth

Jürgen Köhler**

Universität Bayreuth

Rebecca McCallum

Defence; Science and Technology Group

Jeffrey B. Neaton

University of California; Berkeley

Fiona Scholes

CSIRO

Jiang Tang

Huazhong University of Science and Technology

* Completed term as Partner Investigator in 2021

** Commenced in role in 2021

Sherif Abdulkader Tawfik Abbas

Deakin University

Jonathon Beves

UNSW Sydney

Colette Boskovic

University of Melbourne

Yi-Bing Cheng*

Monash University

Andrew Christofferson

RMIT University

Nicholas (Ned) Ekins-Daukes

UNSW Sydney

Joanne Etheridge

Monash University

Jochen Feldmann

Ludwig Maximilians Universität

Lars Goerigk

University of Melbourne

Daniel Gomez

RMIT University

Liam Hall

University of Melbourne

Anita Ho-Baillie

University of Sydney

James Hutchison

University of Melbourne

Ivan Kassal

University of Sydney

Heike Klussman

University of Kassel

Anna Köhler

Universität Bayreuth

Tu Le

RMIT University

Pegah Maasoumi

Swinburne University of Technology

Kavan Modi

Monash University

Angèle Reinders

Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e)

Chris Ritchie

Monash University

Ann Roberts

University of Melbourne

Gary Rosengarten

RMIT University

Greg Scholes

Princeton University

Tim Schork

University of Technology Sydney

Ken Silburn

iSTEM

Kakkudiyil George Thomas

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Thiruvananthapuram

*Completed term as Associate Investigators in 2021

Sherif Abdulkader Tawfik Abbas*

RMIT University

Eser Akinoglu*

University of Melbourne

Jessica Alves 

UNSW Sydney

Andre Anda*

RMIT University

Amir Asadpoor Darvish*

University of Sydney

Christopher Bailey 

UNSW Sydney

Stefano Bernardi 

University of Sydney

Siobhan Bradley*

University of Melbourne

Francesco Campaioli 

RMIT University

Naresh Chandrasekaran*

Monash University

Inseong Cho 

University of Sydney

Jesse F. Collis*

University of Melbourne

Patrick Conaghan*

University of Sydney

Martin Cyster*

RMIT University

Renzo Fenati 

Monash University

Philip Jiale Feng 

UNSW Sydney

Laszlo Frazer*

Monash University

Sebastian Olivier Furer 

Monash University

Rugang Geng 

UNSW Sydney

Mehri Ghasemi*

Monash University

Elham Gholizadeh 

University of Melbourne

Christopher Hall 

University of Melbourne

Liam Hall*

University of Melbourne

Harini Hapuarachchi 

RMIT University

William Kendrick 

University of Melbourne

Jueng-Eun Kim*

Monash University

Nicholas Kirkwood 

University of Melbourne

Mykhailo Klymenko 

RMIT University

Jamie Laird 

University of Melbourne

Jialu Li 

University of Melbourne

Yawei Liu*

University of Sydney

Igor Lyskov*

RMIT University

Mahyar Madadi

University of Melbourne

Wenxin Mao 

Monash University

Sri Matta 

RMIT University

Thomas MacDonald 

UNSW Sydney

David McMeekin 

Monash University

Nastaran Meftahi 

RMIT University

Narendra Pai 

Monash University

Nirmal Peiris*

Monash University

Shyamal Prasad*

UNSW Sydney

Kevin Rietwyk 

Monash University

Nicolau Saker Neto 

University of Melbourne

Pria Ramkissoon 

University of Melbourne

Alicia Schuitemaker 

University of Sydney

Kyra Schwarz*

University of Melbourne

Gaveshana Sepalage 

Monash University

Babar Shabbir 

Monash University

Manoj Sharma 

Monash University

Robert Shaw*

RMIT University

Jingchao Song*

University of Melbourne

Adam Surmiak 

Monash University

Boer Tan 

Monash University

Jesse Vaitkus*

RMIT University

Tharindu Warnakula 

Monash University

Anchal Yadav 

Monash University

Wenping Yin*

Monash University

Jaechoul Yu*

Monash University

Gangcheng Yuan 

Monash University

Tian Zhang 

Monash University

Fei Zheng

University of Melbourne

*Completed contract in 2021

Samira Jama Aden*

Architect Design Researcher

University of Kassel

Claire Dawson

ACSRF Research Fellow

University of Melbourne

Thilini Ishwara 

Senior Research Officer

UNSW Sydney

Bin Li*

Research Assistant

Monash University

Sakuya Mori

Research Assistant

University of Melbourne

Trent Ralph

Research Assistant

University of Melbourne

Madhuranga Rathnayake*

Research Assistant

University of Sydney 

Jared Wood

Research Assistant

University of Sydney 

Wenqi Yan

Research Assistant

Monash University

*Completed contract in 2021

Engin Akinoglu 

University of Melbourne 

Ali Ali*

Monash University

Arun Ashokan 

University of Melbourne 

Patrycja Ballard 

Monash University 

Daniel Balzer 

University of Sydney 

Mayank Bhasin 

University of Melbourne 

Alison Campbell 

University of Sydney 

Subhajit Chakraborty 

University of Melbourne 

Zifei Chen 

University of Melbourne 

Miles Collins 

UNSW Sydney 

Damon de Clercq 

UNSW Sydney 

Siqi Deng 

Monash University 

Cameron Dover 

UNSW Sydney 

Sarah Eskandarian 

Monash University 

Roslyn Forecast 

RMIT University 

Jacob Fry 

University of Melbourne 

Elham Gholizadeh*+

UNSW Sydney 

Lara Gillan 

UNSW Sydney 

Qianying Guo 

Monash University 

Mohammad Rashedul Hasan 

University of Sydney 

Yvonne Hora 

Monash University 

Parisa Hosseinabadi 

UNSW Sydney 

Yixiong Ji 

University of Melbourne 

Joseph Johnson 

University of Melbourne 

Amit Kessel 

Monash University 

Angela Keyte 

University of Melbourne 

Shon Kolomoisky 

Monash University 

Junhan Kong 

Monash University 

Julien Leoni 

University of Sydney 

Hanchen Li 

Monash University 

Yun Li 

University of Sydney 

Bala Gopal Maddala*

Monash University 

Qingdong Lin 

Monash University 

Meredith Mahoney 

RMIT University 

Anjay Manian 

RMIT University 

Adrian Mena 

UNSW Sydney 

Monika Michalska 

Monash University 

Josh Moon 

Monash University 

Roberto N. Muñoz 

Monash University 

Anum Nisar 

Monash University 

Minh Triet Nguyen 

UNSW Sydney 

Mostafa Othman*

Monash University 

Tze Cin Owyong 

University of Melbourne 

William Pappas 

UNSW Sydney 

Rosie Pelosi 

UNSW Sydney 

Rehana Pervin 

University of Melbourne 

Madhuranga Rathnayake*

University of Sydney 

Michael Rinaudo 

University of Sydney 

Eliza Rokhsat 

University of Melbourne 

Muhammad Faris Shahin Shahidan*

University of Melbourne 

Hugh Sullivan 

RMIT University 

Adam Surmiak*+

Monash University 

Ben Tadgell 

University of Melbourne 

Di Wang 

University of Melbourne 

Tim Warner 

RMIT University 

Dingchen Wen 

University of Melbourne 

Jared Wood*

University of Sydney 

Na Wu*

University of Melbourne 

Yang Xu 

University of Melbourne 

Anchal Yadav*+ 

Monash University 

Heyou Zhang 

University of Melbourne 

Boya Zhao 

Monash University 

Jie Zhao 

Monash University 

Irina Zharinova 

University of Melbourne 

* Completed in 2021

+ Now an Exciton Science Postdoc

Masters by Research

Carl Belle

RMIT University

Jungwoo Ma

University of Melbourne 

ChengYi Miao

University of Melbourne 

Viola Steidl*

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität

Jiakai Wang

University of Melbourne

Junlin Yan

Monash University 

Yanchen Zhou

University of Sydney

* Completed in 2021

Masters by Coursework

Conor Day

University of Melbourne

Yihan Dong*

University of Melbourne

Victoria Esson

University of Melbourne

Jiho Han*

University of Melbourne

Jack Heywood-Day

University of Melbourne

Angela Keyte*

University of Melbourne

Yiheng Lu

University of Melbourne

Danni Luo

University of Melbourne

Sakuya Mori*

University of Melbourne

Trent Ralph*

University of Melbourne

Paulo Simon

University of Melbourne

Yan Wu*

University of Melbourne

Fangfang Yuan*

University of Melbourne

Samantha Zaman

University of Melbourne

* Completed in 2021

Dominic Jones*

UNSW University

Nicholas Sloane*

UNSW University

Benjamin Tran

UNSW University

* Completed in 2021

Swasti Agnihotri

University of Melbourne

Dominic Brown

University of Melbourne

Alice Chen

University of Melbourne

Victoria Esson

University of Melbourne

Nicholas Evagora

University of Melbourne

Alexander Frisina

University of Sydney

Tarikul Islam

University of Melbourne

Shon Kolomoisky

Monash University 

Rahul Nambiar

Monash University 

Anis Solehah Binti Amad Sabri

University of Melbourne

Stephanie Sitch

University of Melbourne

Xinyue Xu

University of Melbourne

Jianfei Yu

University of Melbourne

Exciton Science Alumni

Alumni graduate employment positions list 2021

This list of Exciton Science students and their graduate positions only includes graduates with their position available publicly online. For privacy purposes we have not included those whose graduate institution is not public. * denotes graduates who have taken up another position at Exciton Science.

Name Node Completed Graduate position
Mathias Rothmann Monash University 2017 Oxford University
Peng Zeng University of Melbourne 2017 University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Gangcheng Yuan* University of Melbourne 2018 Monash University
Hamid Solimaninejad University of Melbourne 2018 University of Melbourne
Susanne Seibt University of Melbourne 2018 ANSTO
Ari Mayevsky Monash University 2018 Sight Diagnostics, Israel
Jesse F. Collis* University of Melbourne 2018 University of Melbourne
Bolong Zhang University of Melbourne 2019 Cambridge University, UK
Liangcong Jiang Monash University 2019 LONGi Solar, China
Xiongfeng Lin* Monash University 2019 Monash University
Wenxin Mao* Monash University 2019 Monash University
Can Gao University of Melbourne 2019 Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Ashish Sharma University of Sydney 2020 Cambridge University, UK
Bin Li* Monash University 2020 Monash University
Chun Kiu Ng* Monash University 2020 Monash University
Jingsong (Jason) Sun Monash University 2020 Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Boer Tan* Monash University 2020 Monash University
Debora Monego University of Sydney 2020 Columbia University, USA
Madhuranga Rathnayake* University of Sydney 2021 University of Sydney
Bala Gopal Maddala Monash University 2021 Iowa State University, USA
Wen Liang Tan Monash University 2021 Monash University
Elham Gholizadeh* UNSW Sydney 2021 University of Melbourne
Adam Surmiak* Monash University 2021 Monash University
Jared Wood* University of Sydney 2021 University of Sydney
Anchal Yadav* Monash University 2021 Monash University
Name Completed Node Graduate position
Alqatari Ahmed 2018 University of Melbourne Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia
Claire Dawson* 2019 University of Melbourne University of Melbourne
Angela Keyte* 2021 University of Melbourne University of Melbourne
Tze Cin Owyong 2018 University of Melbourne University of Melbourne
Trent Ralph* 2021 University of Melbourne University of Melbourne
Hanbo Yang 2019 University of Melbourne Imperial College London, UK
Name Completed Node Graduate position
Alex Baldacchino 2018 UNSW Sydney UNSW Sydney
Lara Gillan* 2017 UNSW Sydney UNSW Sydney
Yun Li* 2018 University of Sydney University of Sydney
Adrian Mena* 2019 UNSW Sydney UNSW Sydney
William Pappas* 2017 UNSW Sydney UNSW Sydney
Xie Tong 2019 Monash University UNSW Sydney
Dingchen Wen* 2018 University of Melbourne University of Melbourne
Yanchen Zhou* 2017 University of Sydney University of Sydney