Past Members

Academics

Norman Heckenberg

Norman obtained his PhD from the University of Sydney in 1972.
Shu Zhang

Shu completed her undergraduate studies at Shanxi university in China. Her current research focus includes optical tweezers, microrheology, hydrodynamics and two photon lithography. Shu hopes to build an ultra-sensitive optical system can investigate wideband rheological properties and apply it to studies of complex biological systems such as living cells.

Jannis Kohler

Jannis studied Mechanical Engineering as well as Sales Engineering and Product Management at the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. After his master’s degree in August 2013 he joined Professor Andreas Ostendorf’s group Applied Laser Technologies and obtained his PhD in mid-2018. Currently, he is a visiting postdoctoral researcher at the Optical Micro-manipulation Group. His researches concentrate on holographic optical tweezers and two-photon polymerization. This includes the field of optical manipulation and micro-assembling technologies for the use in microfluidics and -robotics.

Anatolii Kashchuk

Anatolii completed his PhD in our group. His research involve the calibration of Optical traps.
Ann Bui

Ann completed her PhD in our group. Her research involved simulating optical tweezers.
Lachlan Gibson

Lachlan completed his undergraduate degrees at the University of Queensland majoring in physics and mathematics. His research within the Optical Micro-manipulation Group focuses on optical tweezers microrheology as well as Stokes flow and wall effects. In particular, this includes measuring viscoelasticity of fluids by observing the motion of microscopic embedded optically trapped spheres. It also incorporates theoretical models of fluid flow at this scale and how the shapes of nearby boundaries affect the motion of trapped particles.

Carter Fairhall

Carter is an undergraduate student who is working on a summer project exploring different optical potentials for trapping E coli with different orientations.

Alexandra Gloria

Alexandra worked with us on aligning the two-photon photo-polymerisation and optical trapping system.
Jackson Calvert-Lane

Jackson worked on a 3rd year fields project investigating using a digital micro-mirror device for generating ring shaped potentials for E coli to swim around.