News

Congratulations are in order to Dr Chris Hall of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science, who has been awarded the Asian Photochemical Association Prize for Young Scientist 2019, as a recognition of his work in photochemistry. 

In a Nature Photonics article released today, ARC Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science Chief Investigator, Professor Timothy Schmidt – with colleagues

Abstract submissions are now open for the 2nd Australian Institute of Physics (AIP) Summer Meeting, to be held from the 3rd – 6th December 2019 at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. Closing date 18 September.

Dr Girish Lakhwani is seeking the two post graduate researchers to undertake PhDs in his gorup in the School of Chemistry at the University of Sydney:

We are currently advertising two PhD opportunities in 1) Upconverter Spectroscopy and 2) AFM Based Nanomechnical Sensing.  Both positions are based at the University of Melbourne in the School of Chemistry.  Go to position descriptions.

The 9th biennial Australian Colloid and Interface Symposium was held in Hobart, from 3 to 7 February 2019. ACEx was a sponsor and a large contingent of Exciton Victorian and NSW researchers, students and staff participated.

Prof John Sader and colleagues have recently published a new article in Nature Nanotechnology that discusses the blind spot in measuring atomic force.

On the 15 November 2018 we kicked off the first of the Exciton Science Seminar Series at the University of Melbourne with a seminar by A/Prof Ned Ekins-Daukes from the University of New South Wales.

We held our Annual Workshop on 24-26 September 2018 in Melbourne. It was a great opportunity to talk about our research, entrepreneurship, patents, unconscious bias, and balancing families and research.

Join us in Sydney in January 2019 for a Summer School focused on Solar + Design. This School, aimed at both scientists and designers, will include both lectures and hands on work.

Monash University is currently seeking a Research Fellow to conduct high-quality research in the area of nanoscience, with an emphasis on synthesis, assembly and spectroscopy of nanostructures. Applications close 10 October 2018

Our researchers attended the 256th American Chemical Society (ACS) National Meeting in Boston, USA on 19-23 August 2018.

Our researchers, Prof Tim Schmidt and his team from UNSW, have collaborated with Ege University researchers to determine the abundance of fat in space, by determining the proportion of grease-like, or aliphatic, molecules in interstellar dust.

The Centre is now offering summer and other casual research opportunities for talented and enthusiastic undergraduate students or recent graduates from Chemistry, Engineering and/or Physics.

To celebrate the International Day of Light on 16 May 2018, Professor Kylie Catchpole from ANU is presenting seminars at the University of Melbourne and Monash University on the future of solar power.

We are pleased to be a sponsor of the first Physics in the Pub in Melbourne on 11 May 2018, where physicists each present a short, entertaining view of their own field of physics.

Organic chemists can hold their heads up high, knowing that curly arrows now have a basis in "real" theory.

Watch this and find out how we're working towards a sustainable energy future.

Island Physics on 6-9 August 2018 will bring together participants from academia and industry to advance quantum technologies in Australia. Abstracts are due by 27 April 2018.

What's happening across the Centre? Read it in here in our first Exciton Science Newsletter (Issue 1, January 2018)

The ARC Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science was pleased to welcome its International Scientific Advisory Committee (ISAC) to its Annual Workshop and Launch in Melbourne on 10-13 December 2017.

The ARC Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science held its inaugural Annual Workshop on 10-12 December 2017.

Dr Wallace Wong joins the Australian security conversation on behalf of the Centre to discuss the research drivers, challenges and opportunities of energy storage at the Emerging Disruptive Technology Assessment Symposium.

Quantum dots are finding applications in quantum computing, solar cells and televisions, writes Cosmos of research by Director, Prof. Paul Mulvaney and colleagues.

Centre directors Professors Udo Bach and Paul Mulvaney gave presentations at the very successful ISECSM 2017 symposium on 31 July - 3 August in Brisbane, organised by Professor Lianzhou Wang and colleagues.

The American Chemical Society held an ACS on Campus event in for academics and students in Melbourne on 21 July. Presentations gave insights into the publishing industry and careers in chemistry careers. In the afternoon a poster session was held.

ICONN (the International Conference On Nanoscience and Nanotechnology) will be held in Wollongong, New South Wales, from 29 January - 2 February 2018.

The ARC Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science is seeking applications for PhD scholarships. 

The ARC Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science was proud to be a sponsor of the National Science Quiz in Melbourne on Sunday 18 June 2017. The quiz featured live demonstrations and curiosity-provoking questions in 90 minutes of science, maths and laughs.