School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences - All staff

Igor Aharonovich received his B.Sc (2005) and M.Sc (2007) in Materials Eng from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology under the supervision of Prof Yeshayahu Lifshitz. He then moved to…

Morgan completed a Bachelor of Forensic Science in Applied Chemistry (Honours) degree at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) in 2012. She then completed her PhD at UTS in 2018 on the…

Matthew Arnold is an Associate Professor in Applied Physics; he was appointed to this position in 2018 having joined UTS in 2007. He was awarded a PhD degree from the University of Otago (NZ) in…

Research Associate,  Institute for Biomedical Materials & Devices (IBMD), Faculty of Science, University of Technology Sydney (UTS) Qualifications Dual PhD, 2018 January - Current. Institute for…

David is a Senior Lecturer and an ARC DECRA Fellow in the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, and is a core member of the Elemental Bio-imaging Facility. David was a Fulbright Postdoctoral…

Professor James Brown is the ABS Professor of Official Statistics James received his B.Sc. (Hons) in Mathematics with Actuarial Studies (1993) and completed his M.Sc. (with distinction) in Social…

Scott completed his undergraduate degree BSc Applied Chemistry Forensic Science (Hons) in 2009 and completed his PhD at UTS in 2013. His research focused on fingermark detection techniques in the…

Michael Cortie is currently the 'Associate Head of School (Research)' within UTS's School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences. Michael's research is focused on the applications…

Mary has a passion for teaching mathematics based on the firm belief that all students can be motivated and supported to achieve and need not be left behind due to special needs, interruptions to…

I completed my PhD at UNSW in 1992 under the supervision of Professor Tony Dooley. I worked for four years in the School of Mathematics at the University of Sydney, before joining UTS in 1998 in the…

Mackenzie teaches and researches in the areas of Chemistry and Forensic science, having completed her Bachelor of Forensic Science in Applied Chemistry (First Class Honours) in 2012 and her PhD in…

Sujeewa De Silva received her B.Sc in Materials Engineering (2003) with 1st class honours from the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. After having an exposure on the research and development work at…

Professor Philip Doble is the Director of the Elemental Bio-imaging Facility (EBF) within the School of Chemistry and Forensic Science at UTS. He has extensive expertise in the development and…

Anthony Dooley took up the position of Head of the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at UTS in January 2016, following a period of 4 years as Professor of Mathematics at the University of…

Annette Dowd is a physicist whose research interests are in the area of development optical and structural characterisation techniques for nanostructured materials. In particular, in her time at UTS…

Nadima joined the School of Finance and Economics as a full-time staff member in July 1997. Her research interests include the pricing and hedging of complex derivatives, term structure modeling,…

My research lies at the intersection of pure mathematics (algebra, geometric group theory, combinatorics) and theoretical computer science (computational complexity, algorithms, formal language…

Mike Ford is Professor of Physics, Faculty of Science Mike Ford is originally from the UK where he undertook his doctoral studies at Southampton University. He first arrived in Australia in 1989 as a…

Shanlin Fu is Professor of Forensic Toxicology at the Centre for Forensic Science. He is heading the Drugs and Toxicology Group, running an active research program with the primary goal of developing…

Hanyu received his Bachelor in industrial automation (1994), Master in control theory and application (1997), and Ph.D in power engineering and automation (1999), all from the Shanghai Jiao Tong…

Dr Anjali Gupta is a Lecturer in the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences and a researcher in the UTS Centre for Forensic Science. Dr Gupta received her PhD from the University of Auckland in…

Dominic Hare is an analytical chemist who completed his PhD in 2009 at UTS, and recently returned as a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow in 2014 after a stint at the Florey Institute of Neuroscience…

Director, Institute for Biomedical Materials & Devices (IBMD), Faculty of Science, University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) Director, UTS-SUStech Joint Research Centre for Biomedical Materials…

Education:  2000-2004 BSc in Physics, Saratov State University, Saratov, Russian Federation  2005-2007 MSc in Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation  2008-2012 PhD in…

At the end of 2017, Dr Langford joined the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences as a Senior Lecturer and ARC Future Fellow to establish Circuit QED @ UTS, a new research group and…

PhD (summa cum laude): 2004, Osnabrück University. Post-doctoral research experience: 2005-2007: Radio Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland 2008-2010: Dept. Electronics and…

Dr. Jiayan Liao received her Ph.D. in 2020 from UTS. She is currently a Research Associate under the supervision of Prof. Dayong Jin in the Institute for Biomedical Materials & Devices (IBMD) at…

I am an NHMRC Early Career Fellow and a core member of the Institute for Biomedical Materials and Devices (IBMD) at the University of Technology Sydney working in the interdisciplinary research area…

PhD (Wollongong), MSc (Fudan), BE (Shanghai)  Dr Hao Liu joined UTS in 2012. Dr. Liu interests in the research fields of electrochemistry, nanotechnology and energy storage and conversion. He has…

I am currently an Associate Professor in the School of Mathematical and Physical sciences, University of Technology Sydney. I have previously held positions as a consultant and senior scientist at…

Peter Logan is a retired UTS adjunct professor in Applied Physics.Dr Logan has a M.Sc in Plasma Physics from Sydney University and a Ph.D. from ANU where he completed a thesis on Shock Tunnel Studies…

I'm working on industry-focused bioproducts within the Climate Change Cluster (C3)  as part of the expansion of the Bioproducts Research Program.This program has emerged from recent research…

Andrew McDonagh received his PhD from the Australian National University in 1999 for work investigating the nonlinear optical properties of some transition metal acetylide complexes. He then took up…

I am professor of forensic genetics in the Centre for Forensic Science.  With a background in biochemical engineering (PhD, University of Sydney) and education (Diploma of Education, Western Sydney…

I joined the Centre for Forensic Science as a Senior Lecturer in October 2019, having spent six years at University College London’s Centre for the Forensic Sciences, where I taught on the MSc…

Dr. Marie Morelato completed her Bachelor and Master degree in Forensic Science at the School of Criminal Justice of the University of Lausanne (Switzerland) in 2009. After completing her studies,…

Alexander Novikov is Emeritus Professor at the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, UTS. Prior to this appointment in 2020 he was Leading Research Fellow at the Steklov Mathematical…

Professor Eckhard Platen joined UTS in 1997 from ANU. He was a joint appointment between the School of Finance and Economics and the School of Mathematical Sciences to the newly created Chair in…

Dr Chris Poulton is a Professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences. His research focus is on numerical analytical methods in electromagnetic wave propagation in composite materials, and he is…

Matias Quiroz joined the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at UTS in May 2019. He was previously a Postdoctoral fellow at University of New South Wales. Matias has a Ph.D degree in…

A/Prof Tapan Rai is Director, Researcher Development in the Graduate Research School. He has held academic and leadership positions in Australia, Canada, USA and India, and has been working in the…

Tristan Rawling is a medicinal chemist with an interest in developing novel drug candidates from bioactive lipids. He has two major research collaborations that have produced promising new compounds…

Dr. Reedy has extensive experience in applied vibrational (infrared and Raman) spectroscopy and heads the Infrared Chemical Imaging Facility at UTS. He also manages the Raman spectroscopy facility at…

So much the interest today is in interdisciplinary fields between traditional fields like chemistry, physics, biochemistry, electrical engineering, materials science, and computer science, yet so…

David Rogers received his PhD in Solid State Physics in 1990 from the University of Glasgow (Scotland) and his MBA from the Open University (England) in 2004. His early research career was involved…

After completing his undergraduate and PhD studies in forensic science at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, Claude Roux migrated to Australia in 1996. Claude has been pivotal to the…

After completing her undergraduate degree in statistics and mathematics at Macquarie University, Louise Ryan left Australia in 1979 to pursue her PhD in statistics at Harvard University in the United…

Erik Schlögl currently is Professor and Director of the Quantitative Finance Research Centre at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), Australia. Erik received his doctorate in Economics from…

Olga Shimoni is an Associate Professor at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences. A core member of the Institute for Biomedical Materials and Devices…

Optical physicist. Expertise in spectroscopy, imaging, quantum technology, and micro/nano-photonics. Looking for motivated research students. Open to consulting. Alexander Solntsev has graduated with…

Dr Xanthe Spindler completed a Bachelor of Science (Forensic)(Honours) at the University of Newcastle, Australia (2006). This was followed by a PhD (Applied Chemistry) at the University of Canberra (…

Dr Barbara Stuart is an Associate Professor in the Centre for Forensic Science and the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at UTS. After graduating with a BSc(Hons) from the University of…

Dr. Dawei Su is Senior Lecturer for School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences in Faculty of Science. He is also the winner of the Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) and UTS Chancellor…

Dr. Bing Sun is a DECRA research fellow in School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences in Faculty of Science. His research focuses on advanced materials for energy storage and conversion,…

Dr. Hao Tian is now a Postdoctoral Research Associate under the supervision of Prof. Hao Liu and Prof. Guoxiu Wang in the Centre for Clean Energy Technology, University of Technology Sydney. He…

Cuong Ton-That obtained a BSc in Physics (Honours, University Medal) from UTS and a PhD degree in the field of surface science from the Robert Gordon University, UK in 2000. He joined UTS in 2003 as…

Milos Toth is a Professor in the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences. He received a PhD in 2001 from UTS where he worked on the luminescence properties and defect structure of wide bandgap…

Maiken Ueland received her B.Sc. with Honours in Forensic Science, with a double minor in Chemistry and Biology in 2012 from the University of Ontario Institute of Technology in Canada. She then…

Alison graduated with Bsc (Hons) and then PhD in Organic Synthesis from University of New South Wales. Following her PhD, in 1994 she joined the Johnson and Johnson Research Pty. Ltd as a Research…

Professor Matt Wand is a Distinguished Professor of Statistics at University of Technology Sydney. His latest research outputs are available on the website: http://matt-wand.utsacademics.info He has…

Joanna received her B.Sc. (Advanced Mathematics) with 1st-class Honours from the University of Sydney. She completed her Ph.D (University of Sydney) in the area of Financial Econometrics. Joanna…

Positions 2014 - Present, Distinguished Professor 2011- 2015, ARC Professorial Future Fellowship 2011- Present, Director, Centre for Clean Energy Technology 2010 - Present, Professor, School of…

Jodie Ward is the Director of the Australian Facility for Taphonomic Experimental Research (AFTER) and an Associate Professor in the Centre for Forensic Science at the University of Technology Sydney…

Dr Shihui Wen received his PhD in 2018 from UTS. After PhD, he works as a team leader for the upconversion materials synthesis lab at IBMD, UTS. Dr Wen has been the co-auhor on more than 60 journal…

Marc West is the Associate Director of the Defence Innovation Network on secondment from the Defence Science and Technology group where, as an operations researcher, he provided advice to Defence,…

I have a synthesis chemistry research background with an industrial focus. My expertise includes research leadership and management, operational management and line management of academic, technical…

Stephen joined UTS in 2010 as a Lecturer in the School of Mathematical Sciences. Prior to this, he was a Research Associate at the University of Glasgow and also worked in private sector consultancy/…

Dr Jane Yao is a Research Group Manager at the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences. She obtained a Masters of Engineering in 2004 and PhD in 2008 from the University of Wollongong (UOW). She…

2017. 09 – present: Centre for Clean Energy Technology, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Technology, Sydney (UTS). (Postdoctoral research fellow) 2016.…

Dr Jiajia Zhou is ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA), Senior Lecturer and Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). She received…