Chair Members
Theme 7: Nano-/Atom-fabrication and Advanced Manufacturing
Prof. Dong Ruan
(Swinburne University of Technology)
(Swinburne University of Technology)
(RMIT University)
Theme 6: Catalysis for Energy and Sustainability
(University of Melbourne)
(RMIT University )
(RMIT University )
Theme 5: Sustainable Energy Storage
(RMIT University)
(University of Adelaide)
Theme 4: Emerging Materials for Diagnostics and Therapeutics
(RMIT University)
(RMIT University)
Theme 3: Advanced Characterisation and Simulation Techniques
(RMIT University)
(RMIT University)
Theme 2: Solar Energy Harvesting and Photo Detection
(RMIT University)
(Griffith University)
Theme 1: Optics, Photonics and Optoelectronics
(RMIT University)
(Westlake University)
Steering Committee
Prof. Warwick Bowen
University of Queensland, Australia. Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Quantum Biotechnology, and leads the Quantum Optics Laboratory at University of Queensland.
Prof. Lei Jiang
Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Technology Sydney. Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences; also elected to TWAS, US NAE, Australian Academy of Science, and Academia Europaea.
Prof. Paul Mulvaney
University of Melbourne, Australia. Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Prof. Zhipei Sun
Aalto university, Finland.
Head of the Photonics Research Group at the Department of Electronics and Nanoengineering of Aalto University, Fellow Member of The Optical Society.
Prof. Anatoly Zayats
King's College London, United Kingdom. Head of the Photonics & Nanotechnology Group at King's College London, Fellow of the Institute of Physics, the Optical Society of America, SPIE and the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Prof. Laura Na Liu
University of Stuttgart, Germany. Director of the 2. Physics Institute, Fellow of Optical Society of America (2020), Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2023), Fellow of American Physical Society (2023).
Local Organizing Committee
Theme Chairs
A/Prof. Han Lin (RMIT University)
Dr. Xiaoming Wen (RMIT University)
Dr. Xiaoning Li (RMIT University)
A/Prof.Maggie Zhai (RMIT University)
Dr. Shilin Zhang (University of Adelaide)
.jpg)
Dr. Helena Wang (University of Melbourne)
Prof. Dong Ruan (Swinburne University of Technology)
A/Prof. Xiaorui Zheng (Westlake University)
Dr. Munkhbayar Batmunkh (Griffith University)
Dr. Keng-Te Lin (RMIT University)
Dr. Lei Bao (RMIT University)
Dr. Yameng Fan (RMIT University)
Dr. Ali Zavabeti (RMIT University )
Dr. Huihui Zhang (RMIT University)
(Swinburne University of Technology)
Dist. Prof. Baohua Jia
Chair
Distinguished Professor Baohua Jia is a Fellow of Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Technologies (FTSE), a Future Fellow of Australian Research Council and Founding Director of Centre for Atomaterials and Nanomanufacturing (CAN) at RMIT University, Australia. Professor Jia is an elected Fellow of Optica (OSA) and an elected Fellow of Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IoM3). Since 2019, Professor Jia has been serving as the Australian Research Council College of Expert. She has won many awards, including the 2023 Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Environment, Sustainability and Energy Horizon Prize: John Jeyes Prize, 2017 finalist of the Australian Prime Minister's Science Award.
Dist. Prof. Calum Drummond
Co-Chair
Professor Drummond has a strong interest and passion for the commercialisation of research outcomes. He joined RMIT University in 2014 from CSIRO where he was Group Executive for Manufacturing, Materials and Minerals comprising 1300 researchers and research support staff and an annual budget of $250 million. Immediately prior to this CSIRO Group Executive appointment, he was Chief of CSIRO Materials Science and Engineering (CMSE), CSIRO’s largest division. Prior to becoming a Chief, Calum was seconded from CSIRO to be the inaugural Vice President Research at CAP-XX, an Intel portfolio company. CAP-XX develops supercapacitors for consumer electronic products. In 2006, CAP-XX listed on the London AIM.
Dist. Prof. Tianyi Ma
Co-Chair
Tianyi Ma is RMIT University’s Distinguished Professor. He is an Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow, Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), and a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher in both Chemistry and Materials Science since 2020. He is Director of ARC Industrial Transformation Hub for Intelligent Energy Efficiency in Future Protected Cropping (E2Crop), and Research Director of Centre for Atomaterials and Nanomanufacturing (CAN). He has >400 publications in top-tier journals with an H-index of 95 and >40,000 citations, and acknowledged by many awads such as 2024 Prime Minister's Prize for Science - the Malcolm McIntosh Prize for Physical Scientist of the Year, Australian Academy of Science's Le Févre Medal.