Past Members

Academics

Prof Em. Norman Heckenberg

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

Dr 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 Micromanipulation 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.

Dr Declan Armstrong

Declan completed his honours and PhD with our group. He worked on structured light control to explore the motility of E-coli using optical trapping.
Dr Ann Bui

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

Lachlan completed his undergraduate degrees at the University of Queensland majoring in physics and mathematics. His research within the Optical Micromanipulation 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.
Dr Isaac Lenton

Isaac did a PhD in computational and experimental physics. His project is to looked at different computational methods for calculating optical and acoustic forces and to use these tools to develop new experimental methods for measuring properties of swimming organisms. He is interested in optical and acoustic trapping, micro-fabrication and interesting computational methods and architectures.
Dr Anatolii Kashchuk

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