Dr. Chris Cott joined MCN as an intern in the Thin Film and Packaging team before graduating to a full-time Process Engineer position at the beginning of 2025. Chris initially completed a PhD in psychology at Deakin University, before spending several years running a small business overseas. On returning to Australia, he retrained in physics […]
Mark joined ANFF-Qld as a Process Development Engineer in 2025. Mark provides technical support for microfabrication processes and equipment, ensuring the ANFF-Qld cleanroom at the University of Queensland operates efficiently and meets high standards. His role also includes process development, troubleshooting, and maintenance of various nanofabrication tools and systems. Mark earned his PhD in Nanoscience
Gurpreet Singh Gill received his B.Tech. and M.Tech. degrees in electronics and communication engineering. He completed his Ph.D. in micro-electronics within the Microelectronics Research Group at The University of Western Australia (UWA) in 2022. He is currently working as a Postdoctoral Research Associate within the same group. Before commencing his Ph.D. at the UWA, he
Deon joined ANFF OptoFab ACT in September 2023 as an Optomechanical Engineer. He graduated from the Australian National University in 2019 with a BSc (Honours) in Physics and Astronomy. Before joining ANFF he worked in OzGrav as a research technician developing Newtonian Noise sensors for gravitational wave detection. He is responsible for the Ion Beam
With over 10 years of experience in micro/nanofabrication, Dashen specialises in wet processes, including HF and cyanide handling, etching, and thin film deposition. He manages wet process benches, e-beam evaporators, magnetron sputtering systems, and furnaces, while also supporting tools like ICP, BRE, PECVD, and thermal evaporators. At RMIT, he provides technical expertise to researchers and
Dr Siqi Deng joined the MCN in April 2024 as a Process Engineer within the Etch/Litho team. Siqi earned both his Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) in Materials Science and Engineering and his PhD in Chemical Engineering from Monash University. His doctoral research centred on the fabrication of back-contact electrodes for perovskite solar cells. Siqi possesses a
Mohamed received his PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the University of South Australia, specialising in the development of nanoscale field-effect transistors for biosignal monitoring. Prior to that, he obtained his Master’s degree in Biomaterial Engineering from Chonbuk National University (South Korea) in 2019. His current research interests lie in translating solid-state nanosensor technology for biosignal
Victor is an expert in a multidisciplinary domain spanning nanotechnology, polymer manufacturing, surface engineering, micro/nano-systems development and biological systems. He is the Deputy Director and a Technology Ambassador of the Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication (ANFF-Vic), Associate Professor in the Faculty of Engineering at Monash University and co-founder and CSO of Proton Intelligence. He is one
Background in vacuum-based instrumentation/hardware. Extensive experience working with SEM, PES, thin film deposition, etching and characterisation. Previously worked in development of charged particle detectors and mass spectrometers.
Kunlun Yan completed his PhD in optics in Laser Physics Centre of Australian National University in 2019. His research was focused on realizing on-chip optical amplifier based on rare-earth doped chalcogenide planar waveguides. Kunlun Yan joined ANFF in 2023 and his research interests include optical film coating, planar waveguide fabrication, precision optics manufacturing and machining, and
Dr Nhat Khuong Nguyen is a dedicated engineer, with a background in chemical and materials engineering, microfluidics and microfabrication. He has a Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical engineering from Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology – Vietnam National University. After that, he earned his PhD at Griffith University, specialising in microfluidics and microfabrication. Joining ANFF
Roger is a Senior Process Engineer: Thin Film Deposition at ANFF-NSW University of Sydney. He spent the last 4 years working as a nanofabrication process engineer for Microsoft Quantum. In this role, and prior to this at UNSW, he worked on several devices and materials systems, including superconductors, semiconductors, qubits, microwave resonators, Josephson junctions, and SQUIDs.
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