Performance

Achievements and Impact

Awards and honours

International

Anita Ho-Baillie, Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher, 2022

Lars Goerigk, Pople Medal, Asia-Pacific Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists, 2022

Maria Bravo, Samantha Zaman, KU Leuven-Melbourne Graduate Researcher Mini Conference - Best Presentation, October 2022

Paul Mulvaney, Ostwald Prize, German Colloid Society, September 2022

Stefan Maier, Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher 2022

Local

Alison Goldingay, Dean's Award for Citizenship and Outreach, University of Sydney, April 2022

Alison Goldingay, Postgraduate Research Prize for Leadership, University of Sydney, August 2022

Anita Ho-Baillie, Warren Prize, Royal Society of NSW, 2022

Chris Hall, Selby Research Award, Selby Scientific Foundation, May 2022

Colette Boskovic, Margaret Shiel Leadership Award, Royal Australian Chemical Institute, 2022

Dane McCamey, Sir Paul Callaghan Medal, Australian and New Zealand Magnetic Resonance Society, 2022

Dingchen Wen, T.W. Healy Award 2022, University of Melbourne, September 2022

Irina Zharinova, GI Feutrill Awards 2022, University of Melbourne, November 2022

Jefferson Lam, Ezio Rizzardo Polymer Scholarship, October 2022

Maria Bravo, Dr Jim Desmarchelier Scholarships, University of Melbourne, November 2022

Philip Jiale Feng, RACI 2022 National Congress, Physical Chemistry Symposium Poster Prize, July 2022

Stefan Maier, Fellow of the Australian Institute of Physics, December 2022

Timothy Schmidt, Liversidge Lecture, Royal Society of NSW, 2022

William Pappas, Sydney Quantum Academy Postgraduate Extension Scholarship, Sydney Quantum Academy, February 2022

William Pappas, Student Travel Award, Australian Institute of Physics, November 2022

William Pappas, Award for the Best PhD Oral Presentation, AUCAOS, December 2022

Yixiong Ji, Best Student Poster in the category of Energy Materials in MEI Symposium 22, University of Melbourne, December 2022

Collaborations and Partnerships

New International Collaborations

University of Toronto, January 2022

Members: Trevor Smith, Wallace Wong
Collaborators: Dwight Seferos, University of Toronto and Mark Wilson, University of Toronto

Experiment at NW14A beamline KEK Tsukuba (Photon Factory). November 2022

Members: Tze Cin Owyong
Collaborators: Jonathan White, University of Melbourne and Catriona Thompson, University of Melbourne

The University of Melbourne visit to the Tokyo Embassy. July 2022

Members: James Hutchison
Collaborators: Janine Pitt, Education and Research Counsellor for Japan and the Republic of Korea, Kumiko Tsukamotom, Australian Embassy in Tokyo.

Chancellery Research and Enterprise, University of Melbourne Research Delegation to Japan June 2022

Member: James Hutchison

Continuing International Partnerships

New molecules for single fission, July 2022

Members: Trevor Smith, Ken Ghiggino, Rohan Hudson
Collaborators: Ron Steer, University of Saskatchewan, Matthew Paige, University of Saskatchewan

Characterisations of TADF compounds for light emitting devices, January 2022

Members: Pria Ramkissoon, Christopher Hall, Trevor Smith
Collaborators: Satish Patil, Indian Institute of Science

Collaboration with Chinese Academy of Sciences and Exciton Guest Speaker, February 2022

Members: Paul Mulvaney
Collaborators: Lei Jiang, Chinese Academy of Science

Continuous collaboration with Trinity College of Dublin regarding exchange of students, March 2022

Members: Paul Mulvaney, Ken Ghiggino, Trevor Smith
Collaborators: Susan Quinn, Trinity College Dublin

Continuous collaboration between University of Melbourne and University of Bayreuth, March 2022

Members: Paul Mulvaney, Anna Köhler

Continuous collaboration between University of Melbourne and Uni Saskatchewan and SoC seminar, March 202

Members: Paul Mulvaney, Ken Ghiggino
Collaborators: Ron Steer, University of Saskatchewan

IRTG Development with University of Bayreuth, February 2022

Members: Paul Mulvaney, Jacke Jasieniak, Alison Funston, Trevor Smith
Collaborators: Anna Köhler

Member: Jacek Jasieniak

International Visitors

Philippe J. Holzhey, Oxford University, January 2022 to November 2022

Jin-Wook Lee, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea, July 2022

Luca Sortino, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU), Germany, June 2022

Sam Stranks, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, December 2022

Helen Tran, University of Toronto, Canada, December 2022

Bryton Varju, University of Toronto, Canada, December 2022

Sushobhan Avasthi, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), India, October 1, 2022

Bert Meijer, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands, November 2022

George Thomas, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, India, November 2022

Tobias Kraus, Liebniz Institute for New Materials, Germany, November 2022

Klaus Lips, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie August 2022

Marina Frietag, University of Newcastle, United Kingdom, November 2022

Jurgen Kohler, University of Bayreuth, Germany, November 2022

Greg Scholes, Princeton University, United States, March 2022

Selina Süzeroğlu, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU), Germany, November 2022 to March 2023

Daniel Kroh, University of Bayreuth, Germany, November 2022 to March 2023

Lei Jang, Chinese Academy of Science, China, February 1, 2022

Angèle Reinders, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands, November 2022

Nate Davis, University of Wellington, New Zealand, November 2022

Arnim Heinemann, University of Bayreuth, Germany, April 2022

Charlotte Flatebo, University of California, United Status, July 2022

Alex Martucci, University of Padova, Italy, September 2022

James Banal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United Status, October 2022

Thomas Hesse, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany, November 2022

Christian Blauth, German Defense Industry, Germany, December 2022

Heyou Zhang, University of Bayreuth, Germany, December 2022

Yue Dong, Leibnitz Institute for Polymer Research, Germany, December 2022

Janine Pitt, Australian Embassy Tokyo, Japan, July 2022

Kumiko Tsukamoto, Australian Embassy in Tokyo, Japan, July 2022

Hiroshi Amitsuka, Hokkaido University, Japan, November 2022

Tena Uemura, International Office, Hokkaido University, Japan, November 2022

Franky So, North Caroline State University, United States, September 2022

Elleanor Campbell, Edinburgh University, Scotland, August 2022

Ali Miserez, Nanyang Technical University, Singapore, December 2022

Janne Halme, Alto University, Finland, October 2022 to December 2022

Cather Simpson, University of Auckland, New Zealand, December 2022

Nicolas Voght, HQS Quantum Simulations GmBH, Germany, December 2022

Yong Ho Kim, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea, July 2022

Seongpil An, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea, July 2022

Il Jeon, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea, July 2022

Sungjoo Lee, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea, July 2022

New Australian Collaborations

Industry collaboration with ClearVue for materials with potential in semitransparent LSCs, October 2022

Members: Pria Ramkissoon, Nicholas Kirkwood, Nicholas Evagora/
Collaborator: Mikhail Vasiliev, ClearVue

Collaboration with James Bullock Group in Photodetection, Solar Cells and ACEL devices, August 2022

Members: Wei Luo, Yixiong Ji, Dingchen Wen, Arun Ashokan, Sepehr Ahmadi, Paul Mulvaney
Collaborator: James Bullock, University of Melbourne

Collaboration with Kenneth Crozier Group in light conversion and detection, February 2022

Members: Wei Luo, Dingchen Wen, Claire Dawson, Paul Mulvaney
Collaborator: Kenneth Crozier, University of Melbourne

Collaboration with RMIT in Studying light induced current transients with vibrating electrodes, September 2022

Member: Pria Ramkissoon,
Collaborator: Yemima Ehrnst Amgad Rezk, RMIT

Tindo Solar Visit, January 2022

Member: Jacek Jasieniak
Collaborator: Tindo Solar

Race 2030 - next generation photovoltaics, December 2022

Member: Jacek Jasieniak
Collaborator: Race 2030

Thermo Fisher Visit, March 2022

Member: Jacek Jasieniak
Collaborator: Thermo Fisher

Agilent and Monash University Visit, June 2022

Member: Jacek Jasieniak
Collaborator: Agilent

Dulux Visit – Golden Can Seminar, October 2022

Members: Jacek Jasieniak, Paul Mulvaney, Wallace Wong, Nick Kirkwood and Kate McGeoch
Collaborator: Dulux

Inter-node Visits

Monash University and RMIT Platform 2.2 collaborative meeting, July 2022

Members: Harini Hapuarachchi, Jared Cole, Kyla Rutherford, Hugh Sullivan, Gangcheng Yuan, Shon Kolomoisky, Alison M. Funston

NV plasmonic Collaboration, July 2022

Members: Harini Hapuarachchi, Liam Hall, Di Wang, Sepehr Ahmadi

Platform 2.3 collaborative meetings with Monash, University of Melbourne, and RMIT, June 2022 to October 2022

Members: Renzo Fenati, Salvy Russo, Anjay Manian, Zifei Chen

CSIRO Linfield with the University of Sydney, February 2022

Members: Yahui Tang, Girish Lakhwani

Halide perovskite characterisation with University of Melbourne and Monash University, October 2022

Members: Pria Ramkissoon, Boer Tan, Jamie Laird

Collaboration of Characterisation of halide perovskite devices with Monash University and University of Melbourne, October 2022

Members: Pria Ramkissoon, Jamie Laird, Philippe Holzhey,

Collaboration for the development of NIR upconverting lanthanide materials at University of Melbourne, October 2022

Members: Pria Ramkissoon, Colette Boskovic

Collaboration with University of Sydney to characterize TADF materials for light emitting devices. October 2022

Members: Pria Ramkissoon, Inseong Cho

Platform 1.2 collaborative meeting with Monash University and University of Melbourne, January 2022

Members: Paul Mulvaney, Jacek Jasieniak

Platform 1.2 collaborative meeting with Monash University and RMIT, March 2022

Members: Jacek Jasieniak, Salvy Russo

Graphene collaborative meeting with Monash University and University of Melbourne, December 2022

Members: Paul Mulvaney, Jacek Jasieniak