Group Members

Group Leader

Professor Kenneth B. Crozier

Kenneth Crozier is Professor of Physics and Electronic Engineering. This is joint appointment between the School of Physics and the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Prior to joining the University of Melbourne, Kenneth Crozier was a faculty member in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. He joined Harvard as an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering in 2004, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2008. He received his MSEE and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1999 and 2003, respectively. In 2008, he was a recipient of a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation (USA) and a Loeb Chair at Harvard, an endowed position for junior faculty. In 2014, he was awarded an Innovation Fellowship from VESKI (Victorian Endowment of Science, Knowledge and Innovation) and an Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellowship on his return to Australia.

 

Research Fellows (alphabetical order)

Dr Sivacarendran Balendhran

Sivacarendran completed his B. Eng. and PhD at RMIT University, Australia. His research expertise includes two-dimensional materials synthesis and planar device development. His PhD thesis was entitled “Devices and systems based on two dimensional MoO3 and MoS2” and was completed under the supervision of Prof. Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh.

 

Dr Wendy Lee

Wendy completed her B. Eng. and PhD degrees in at Monash University and at the University of Adelaide, respectively. Her PhD thesis was entitled ““Terahertz metasurfaces for wideband polarisation control”. Wendy is jointly supervised by Prof Ann Roberts (and Ken Crozier).

Mr Jiajun Meng

Jiajun received his M.E. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Melbourne. He received his B.Sc. degree in Electronic and Information Science and Technology from Fudan University (China). His M.E. capstone thesis was entitled “Computational Optical Microscope Using Domed LED Array Illuminator” and supervised by Ken Crozier. Jiajun’s (submitted) PhD thesis is entitled “Optical microspectrometers and chemical classifiers based on silicon nanowires, plasmonic metasurfaces and machine learning”.

Dr Nima Sefidmooye Azar

Nima received his M.S. in Electronics (Devices and Semiconductors) from the University of Tehran (Iran). His M.S. thesis was entitled “Material Preparation, Characterization, Conduction Modeling, and Electronic Applications of Polymer Matrix Composites.” His B.S. degree was in Electrical Engineering (Electronics) and from the University of Tabriz (Iran). His M.S. thesis supervisor was Dr Mahdi Pourfath (Assistant Professor). Nima received his PhD from the University of Melbourne. His PhD thesis was entitled “Nano-Optical Photodetectors based on Two-Dimensional Materials”.

PhD students (alphabetical order)

Mr Seyed Saleh Mousavi Khaleghi

Seyed received his B.Sc. in Electrical and Communications Engineering from K. N. Toosi University of Technology (Iran). He received his M.Sc. in Microwave and Applied Electromagnetics from Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic, Iran). His MSc project was entitled ” Investigation, Simulation and Design Tunneling of Electromagnetic Energy in transmission-line loaded with ENZ Metamaterial.”

Mr Benjamin Russell

Ben received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Physics from the University of Melbourne. His MSc thesis entitled “All-Dielectric Metasurfaces for Broadband Infrared Spectral Reconstruction”.

Mr Henry Tan

Henry received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Physics from the University of Melbourne. His MSc thesis was on developing spectrometers based on multimode optical fibres.