Team Lead
Dr Philipp Reineck
ARC Decra Fellow, RMIT University, Australia
Philipp is an ARC Decra Fellow at RMIT University in Melbourne and an associate investigator of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale BioPhotonics. He graduated in Physics from the University of Munich (LMU) and received his PhD in Materials Engineering from Monash University in 2014. His research interests span many areas including biophysics, fluorescent nanomaterials, plasmonics, nanoparticle chemistry and self-assembly, nano-photonics and bioimaging. His current focus is the development of fluorescent nanomaterials for imaging and sensing applications and understanding the optical properties of carbon-based nanomaterials.
Students
Emma Wilson
PhD Student, RMIT University, Australia
Emma is interested in the interaction of fluorescent nanodiamonds with cells. She investigates the colloidal properties of the particles in biological media as well as the particles optical properties and their effect on cell stress and viability.
Giannis Thalassinos
PhD Student, RMIT University, Australia
Giannis project aims to understand the origins of fluorescence in detonation nanodiamonds. He’s currently focusing on characterizing the fluorescence properties of hydrogenated detonation nanodiamonds.
Davin Peng
Masters Student, RMIT University, Australia
Davin aims to use single nitrogen-vacancy color centres in nanodiamonds to develop an all optical, fluorescence-based sensor for extreme conditions. He's currently focusing on characterizing the fluorescence properties of single-photon emitters in nanodiamonds.
Samir Eldemrdash PhD Student, RMIT University, Australia
Samir investigates the colloidal properties and self-assembly of different types of nanodiamonds in water using advanced light scattering techniques in close collaboration with Prof. Gary Bryant.
Mitchell De Vries PhD Student, RMIT University, Australia
Mitchell is exploring new fluorescent defects in the near-infrared spectral region in silicon carbide nanoparticles. He focuses on the spectral region between 1000 and 1350 nm, where biological tissue shows low light absorption and scattering.
Katherine Chea
PhD Student, RMIT University, Australia
Katherine aims to understand how nanoparticles of different sizes and shapes like nanodiamonds can form highly regular crystal structures in suspension. Gary Bryant is Katherine’s main supervisor.
Roy Styles
PhD Student, RMIT University, Australia
Roy investigates how the fluorescence color of nandiamonds can be used to measure biological signals like voltages at the nanoscale.