People
Meet our team
The Centre of Light for Life is made of passionate researchers each notable in their own fields of Physics, Biology and more.
Professor Kishan Dholakia
Director
ARC Laureate Fellow
Area: Optics, Biophotonics, Photonics, Imaging
Office: Molecular Life Sciences Building, Ground Floor, Room G16
A/Professor Kylie Dunning
Deputy Director
ARC Future Fellow
Area: Reproductive Biology, Biophotonics, Photonics, Imaging
Office: Helen Mayo South Building, Level 2, Room S233
Dr Megan Lim
Centre Coordinator,
Postdoctoral Researcher
Area: Reproductive Biology, Photonics, Imaging
Office: Helen Mayo South Building, Level 2, Room S238
Dr Chris Perrella
Postdoctoral Researcher
Area: Optical Trapping, Speckle Metrology, Optics, Photonics
Office: Molecular Life Sciences Building, Ground Floor, Room G15
Dr Avinash Upadhya
Postdoctoral Researcher
Area: Light-sheet Microscopy, Hyperspectral Imaging, Optics, Photonics
Office: Molecular Life Sciences Building, Ground Floor, Room G15
Dr Ralf Mouthaan
Postdoctoral Researcher
Area: Optical fibres, Raman Spectroscopy, Digital Holographic Microscopy, Optics, Photonics
Office: Molecular Life Sciences Building, Ground Floor, Room G15
Dr Damien Raynal
Postdoctoral Researcher
Area: Optical tweezers, Levitated Optomechanics, Optics, Photonics
Office: Molecular Life Sciences Building, Ground Floor, Room G15
Dr Cheow Yuen Tiffany Tan
Postdoctoral Researcher
Area: Reproductive Biology, Label-free imaging, Photonics, Imaging
Office: Helen Mayo South Building, Level 2, Room S238
Dr Tan Dai Nguyen
Postdoctoral Researcher
Area: Acoustic wave technology, Microfluidics, Biomedical Devices
Office: Helen Mayo South Building, Level 2, Room S238
Dr Darren Jin Xiang Chow
Postdoctoral Researcher
Area: Reproductive Biology, Label-free imaging, Photonics, Imaging
Office: Helen Mayo South Building, Level 2, Room S238
The Centre collaborates with notable scientists and key institutes to build upon the area of photonics and its applications in other multidisciplinary fields
Professor Bronwyn Gillanders
Head, Aquatic Ecology Lab
Research Area: Aquatic organisms (freshwater, estuarine and marine), Ecology, Environmental issues
Robinson Research Institute
Research Area: Reproductive and early life origins of health and disease.
The University of St Andrews
Optical Manipulation Group
Research Area: Structured light, Optical tweezers, Levitated optomechanics, Bioimaging, Raman spectroscopy, Speckle metrology
| Year | Name | Award | Thesis title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Admir Bjraktarevic | Honours | Denoising with Deep Learning |
| 2023 | Emi Hughes | Honours | Comparison of Projection Patterns for Applications of Compressive Fluorescence Microscopy |
| 2023 | Alexander Trowbridge | Honours | Speckle Metrology Wavemeter Design |