Faces
Visitors:
Dr. Zin Tun, Principal Research Officer with the Canadian Neutron Beam Centre in Chalk River spent a 2-month sabbatical with us in December and January. Zin conducted a number of in-situ electrochemical experiments using our PLATYPUS reflectometer, and also helped with our magnetic powder diffraction program on WOMBAT
Newcomers:
Anton Le Brun is a new post-doc in the National Deuteration Facility. He is investigating biomolecules and biological membranes. Before joining ANSTO he worked at the Diamond Light Source where he commissioned a high-throughput protein crystallography beamline.
Saurabh Kabra is a new post-doc in the Thermo-Mechanical Processes team developing materials for extreme environments. He has used the neutron diffraction beamlines at Los Alamos National Laboratory (SMARTS & HIPPO) to study the mechanical behaviour of such materials.
Hal Lee leads the Institute's 3He Polarisation Project. The project will bring polarised 3He-based neutron polarisers and analysers to the Institute’s instruments. Hal arrives from the Spallation Neutron Source at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Paris Constantine is a Project Engineer/Group Leader providing project-engineering support to our $60M portfolio of instrument construction projects. His experience includes defence and commercial research and development roles, working on aerospace, sonar and radar systems.
James Taylor is a new post-doc in structural biology working with Bill Hamilton and Jill Trewhella. He arrives from the University of Portsmouth, UK where he investigated Type I bacterial restriction-modification systems using SANS at the ILL.
Jorden Lickiss is a Trainee administrative assistant within the Bragg Institute User Office. Jorden recently completed her HSC studies at Oak Flats High School.
Departures:
Paul Hathaway led our Data Analysis Team, and has moved on to become Software Engineer / Scientist at the Diamond Light Source, near Oxford, in the UK.
Roland Bircher recently completed his post-doc with us in molecular and molecular-network magnetic materials.
Lewis Ryan has completed his Year-in-Industry studies under the supervision of Klaus-Dieter Liss. He has returned to Canberra to study medicine.