People
Higher Degree Research students
Siddharth Rawat
Siddharth's PhD is exploring the potential of machine learning and digital holographic microscopy for analysing cells, colloids, and more.
Daniel Loo
Daniel's Masters project is about the aggregation of vesicles, and their response to challenging environmental conditions.
Lauren Lowe
Lauren's PhD project involves regulating the nutrient flow of model primitive cells and artificial cells.
Honours Students
Ziyan Fan
Ziyan is working on cell division and membrane fusion.
Research Assistants
Yaam Deckel
Yaam is working on micropipette aspiration, and vesicle hemifusion.
Lan Tran
Lan is working on precision quantification of vesicle properties using holography.
Group leader
Dr Anna Wang
Scientia Senior Lecturer and ARC DECRA Fellow
Scientia Senior Lecturer and ARC DECRA Fellow
BSc (Adv H1M), The University of Sydney (2009)
SM in Applied Physics, Harvard University (2013)
PhD in Applied Physics, Harvard University (2016)
NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow in Astrobiology at Massachusetts General Hospital (2016-2018)
Biography here
Alumni
Omar Khamis
Omar was an undergraduate researcher and research assistant who worked on light-scattering assays for vesicle permeability in 2019-2020. As of 2020 he is now working at Saudi Aramco.
Jenane Konesan
Jena graduated first class with a degree in Medicinal Chemistry (Hons). Jena was exploring the potential of fatty acids for enhanced transdermal drug delivery.
Jonathan Wendoloski
Jono was working on using machine learning to mitigate noise in holograms.
Storm Drury
Storm was working on 3D printing a portable holographic microscope.
Greta Paget
Greta was helping assemble an optical tweezer setup on the holographic microscope.
Matthew Turner and James Luong
Matthew and James were summer students working on using holographic microscopy to quantify diffusion and vesicle loading