Chief Investigators

Scott Kable
Head of the UNSW School of Chemistry

Tim Schmidt
Professor / ARC Fellow, School of Chemistry, UNSW

Meredith Jordan
Professor of Theoretical Chemistry at USYD

Chris Hansen
Lecturer & ARC DECRA Fellow at UNSW Sydney focusing on understanding the true, long-term impacts of new industrial gases

Chris Medcraft
Postdoctoral Researchers

Ben Laws

Jessica Alves
Postdoctoral fellow

Jiale Feng
Postdoctoral fellow

Klaas Nauta
Senior Research Associate involved with all current techniques and projects in spectroscopy and dynamics

Paolo Sebastianelli

Shyamal Prasad

Thilini Ishwara
Graduate Students

Blair Welsh

Zach Levey
PhD student working on REMPI, studying the spectroscopy of astrochemically relevant molecules including PAH radicals and cations. Experimental work is coupled with quantum chemical calculations to provide a complete investigation of the spectroscopy of these molecules.

Lorrie Jacob
Masters student primarily working on FTIR focusing on the photodissociation of acetone, an abundant ketone in the atmosphere.

Maria Paula Pérez-Pena
PhD. Candidate working in evaluating untested photochemistry of carbonyls with comprehensive models (from box models to 3D atmospheric models). I am interested in all atmospheric modelling related endeavours.

Cameron Dover
A PhD student with expertise in spectroscopy and Nanoscience, specifically surface chemistry and nanomaterials. He aims to combine conventional silicon-based solar technology with a singlet fission medium through the use of a precisely engineered and characterised interface, with goals of improving solar cell photo-current and overall efficiency

Jyoti Campbell
PhD student primarily working on VMI studying molecular dynamics focusing on photodissociation of new refrigerant degradation products.
Honours Students

Benjamin Tran

Joshua Thomson
Honours student, currently undertaking a project investigating the atmospheric photolysis of methyl vinyl ketone (MVK) using Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR).