Alumni directory
The success of Exciton Science’s research was largely driven by the collaborative efforts of its members, who brought together expertise in chemistry, physics, materials science, and engineering. By working across disciplines, these researchers developed innovative solutions in areas like solar energy, light-emitting technologies, and quantum materials. Their collective contributions, from pioneering new materials to advancing theoretical models, led to significant breakthroughs in understanding excitonic processes, driving progress in sustainable energy and optoelectronic applications.
Staff
Chief Investigator
Assoc. Prof. Asaph Widmer-Cooper
Assoc. Prof. Girish Lakhwani
Assoc. Prof. Wallace Wong
Dr Alison M. Funston
Dr James Hutchison
Prof. Dane McCamey
Prof. Jacek Jasieniak
Prof. Jared Cole
Prof. John Sader
Prof. Ken Ghiggino
Prof. Paul Mulvaney
Prof. Salvy Russo
Prof. Timothy Schmidt
Prof. Trevor Smith
Prof. Udo Bach
Prof. Yi-Bing Cheng
Operations Staff
Dr Diana Londish
Iain Strachan
Mr Ben Hess
Mr Jeremy Platt
Mr Joshua Ezackial
Mr Sam Gaul
Mr Spencer Wong
Mrs Andrea Oliver
Mrs Jenny Chen
Mrs Kathy Palmer
Mrs Piumika Perera
Ms Ana Amaral Ferreira
Ms Anita Russo
Ms Brooke Nati
Ms Eileen Wu
Ms Emma Donnelly
Ms Jasmine Lynch
Ms Kate Hall
Ms Kate McGeoch
Ms Michelle Sullivan
Ms Monica Brockmyre
Ms Sandra Pedersen
Ms Sarah Mulvey
Dr Nicholas Kirkwood
Ms Esperanza Pring
Ms Johanna Monk
Research Assistant
Dr Bin Li
Dr Gangcheng Yuan
Dr Hugh Sullivan
Dr Nitish Rai
Dr Stefano Bernardi
Dr Susanne Seibt
Dr Timothy Warner
Miss Wenqi Yan
Mr Alain Rives
Mr Caleb Stamper
Mr Cameron Dover
Mr Dominic Jones
Mr Jared Wood
Mr Jasper Cadusch
Mr Juan Benitez Rodriguez
Mr Madhuranga Rathnayake
Mr Michael Rinaudo
Mr Peng Zeng
Mr Siqi Deng
Mr Trent Ralph
Ms Hanbo Yang
Ms Sakuya Mori
Ms Yizhen Li
Research Fellow
Dr Adam Surmiak
Dr Akhil Gupta
Dr Alicia Schuitemaker
Dr Amir AsadpoorDarvish
Dr Anchal Yadav
Dr Andre Anda
Dr Andrew Tilley
Dr Anjay Manian
Dr Anu Gulur Srinivas
Dr Arun Ashokan
Dr Babar Shabbir
Dr Ben Carwithen
Dr Boer Tan
Dr Calum Kinnear
Dr Carol Hua
Dr Carolina Rendón Barraza
Dr Chang Liu
Dr Christopher Bailey
Dr Christopher Hall
Dr Daniel Ladiges
Dr David McMeekin
Dr Debadi Chakraborty
Dr Dongchen Lan
Dr Elham Gholizadeh
Dr Elizabeth Thomas
Dr Eser Akinoglu
Dr Fei Zheng
Dr Felix Pollock
Dr Francesco Campaioli
Dr Gangcheng Yuan
Dr Gaveshana Sepalage
Dr Giovanni DeLuca
Dr Harini Hapuarachchi
Dr Igor Lyskov
Dr Inseong Cho
Dr Jaechoul Yu
Dr Jamie Booth
Dr Jamie Laird
Dr Jesse F. Collis
Dr Jessica Alves
Dr Jialu Li
Dr Jian Feng Lu
Dr Jiangjian Shi
Dr Jie Zhao
Dr Jinbao Zhang
Dr Jingchao Song
Dr Jueng-Eun Kim
Dr Kalim Kashif
Dr Kevin Rietwyk
Dr Kyra Schwarz
Dr Laszlo Frazer
Dr Laurent Lermusiaux
Dr Liam Hall
Dr Mahyar Madadi
Dr Manoj Sharma
Dr Martin Cyster
Dr Mehri Ghasemi
Dr Mina Barzegaramiriolya
Dr Mohammad Aminpour
Dr Mykhailo Klymenko
Dr Na Gyeong An
Dr Naeimeh Mozaffari
Dr Narendra Pai
Dr Naresh Chandrasekaran
Dr Nastaran Faraji Ouch Hesar
Dr Nastaran Meftahi
Dr Nicholas Kirkwood
Dr Nicolau Saker Neto
Dr Nina I. Novikova
Dr Nirmal Peiris
Dr Patrick Conaghan
Dr Pegah Maasoumi
Dr Philip Jiale Feng
Dr Phoebe Pearce
Dr Phuong Vo
Dr Pria Ramkissoon
Dr Randy Sabatini
Dr Renzo Fenati
Dr Robert Shaw
Dr Rohan Hudson
Dr Rugang Geng
Dr Sam Brooke
Dr Sebastian Olivier Furer
Dr Sepehr Ahmadi
Dr Sharidya Rahman
Dr Sheikh Imamul Hossain
Dr Sherif Abdulkader Tawfik Abbas
Dr Shi Tang
Dr Shyamal Prasad
Dr Siobhan Bradley
Dr Sonia Ruiz Raga
Dr Sri Matta
Dr Stefano Bernardi
Dr Tharindu Warnakula
Dr Thilini Ishwara
Dr Thomas MacDonald
Dr Tian Zhang
Dr Wei Feng
Dr Wei Li
Dr Wei Luo
Dr Wenping Yin
Dr Wenxin Mao
Dr William Kendrick
Dr Xia Zhang
Dr Xiongfeng Lin
Dr Yahui Tang
Dr Yawei Liu
Dr Yu Zhang
Dr Zachariah Levey
Miss Claire Dawson
Mr Jesse Vaitkus
Mr Junhan Kong
Ms Alexandra Stuart
Ms Irina Zharinova
Ms Qingrui Kong
Technical Staff
Dr Chun Kiu Ng
Dr Thilini Ishwara
Ms Samira Jama Aden
Primary Administrator
Students
Honours/4th year project
Dr William Pappas
Mr Adrian Mena
Mr Alex Baldacchino
Mr Alex Tran
Mr Benjamin Tran
Mr Caleb Stamper
Mr Dingchen Wen
Mr Dominic Jones
Mr Dylan Dowling
Mr James Smith
Mr Jiho Han
Mr Jiyuan Yu
Mr Junlin Yan
Mr Matthew Lucas
Mr Matthew Rahme
Mr Max Elias
Mr Miles Collins
Mr Nicholas Sloane
Mr Ruoxi Huang
Mr Shon Kolomoisky
Mr Thilina Hettiarachchige
Mr Victor Li
Mr Xie Tong
Mr Yanchen Zhou
Mr Yun Li
Ms Alison Goldingay
Ms Lara Gillan
Ms Yizhen Li
Yannan Zhou
Masters by coursework
Jianfei Yu
Miss Claire Dawson
Miss Hsin-Ya Tsai
Miss Naiya Desai
Miss Samantha Zaman
Miss Yan Wu
Miss Yudian Li
Mr Aitor Gutierrez Valero
Mr Alexander Nunn
Mr Alqatari Ahmed
Mr Chaoyu Ren
Mr Conor Day
Mr Jack Heywood-Day
Mr Jianchao Ge
Mr Jiho Han
Mr Nicholas Liu
Mr Paulo Simon
Mr Robin Hone
Mr Timothy O’Sullivan
Mr Trent Ralph
Mr Tze Cin Owyong
Mr Ziyi Wang
Ms Angela Keyte
Ms Danni Luo
Ms Fangfang Yuan
Ms Hanbo Yang
Ms Sakuya Mori
Ms Victoria Esson
Ms Weijie Geng
Ms Xuying Li
Ms Yihan Dong
Peijing Li
Primary Administrator
Stephen Franzese
Xinyue Xu
Yiheng Lu
Masters by research
Jungwoo Ma
Miss Carrie Manna Kasmaji
Miss Jingyi Yuan
Miss Yen Yee Choo
Mr Carl Belle
Mr ChengYi Miao
Mr Dali Quan
Mr Damon Payne
Mr Jiakai Wang
Mr Junlin Yan
Mr Nicholas Evagora
Mr Tyler Hughes
Mr Yanchen Zhou
Mr Yang Li
Mr Yee Xuan Wong
Ms Yang Xu
PhD
Dr Adam Surmiak
Dr Ali Ali
Dr Anchal Yadav
Dr Anjay Manian
Dr Arun Ashokan
Dr Bin Li
Dr Boer Tan
Dr Cameron Ritchie
Dr Christian Blauth
Dr Chujie Wang
Dr Chun Kiu Ng
Dr Debora Monego
Dr Dorota Bacal
Dr Elham Gholizadeh
Dr Gangcheng Yuan
Dr Hamid Solimaninejad
Dr Hanchen Li
Dr Hugh Sullivan
Dr Jesse F. Collis
Dr Jie Zhao
Dr Mathias Rothmann
Dr Susanne Seibt
Dr Timothy Warner
Dr Wenxin Mao
Dr William Pappas
Dr Xiongfeng Lin
Josh Moon
Leshy Patchett
Miss Chang Cao
Miss Claire Dawson
Miss Ella Walsh
Miss Emily Liew (Zhi Tong)
Miss Katelyn Clutterbuck
Miss Kyla Rutherford
Miss Maria Basso
Miss Maria Bravo
Miss Samantha Zaman
Miss Wenqi Yan
Miss Yen Yee Choo
Mr Adrian Mena
Mr Alex Baldacchino
Mr Amit Kessel
Mr Ari Mayevsky
Mr Ashish Sharma
Mr Bala Gopal Maddala
Mr Ben Tadgell
Mr Bilal Khan
Mr Bolong Zhang
Mr Boya Zhao
Mr Cameron Dover
Mr Cheng Zhao
Mr Damon de Clercq
Mr Daniel Balzer
Mr Daniel Kroh
Mr David Ing
Mr Di Wang
Mr Dingchen Wen
Mr Engin Akinoglu
Mr Eric Shen
Mr Filippo Micharikopoulos
Mr Hao Deng
Mr Heyou Zhang
Mr Ian Thomas
Mr Jacob Fry
Mr Jared Wood
Mr Jefferson Lam
Mr Jingsong (Jason) Sun
Mr Jize Lin
Mr Joseph Johnson
Mr Joshua Peter Rand
Mr Juan Benitez Rodriguez
Mr Julien Leoni
Mr Junhan Kong
Mr Junlin Yan
Mr Lan Nguyen
Mr Lars-Erik Maurer
Mr Liangcong Jiang
Mr Madhuranga Rathnayake
Mr Mayank Bhasin
Mr Michael Rinaudo
Mr Miles Collins
Mr Minh Triet Nguyen
Mr Mohammad Rashedul Hasan
Mr Mostafa Othman
Mr Muhammad Faris Shahin Shahidan
Mr Naufan Nurrosyid
Mr Nicholas Liu
Mr Nicholas Sloane
Mr Pat Siripanich
Mr Peng Zeng
Mr Philippe Holzhey
Mr Qianying Guo
Mr Qicheng Hou
Mr Qingdong Lin
Mr Riley O’Shea
Mr Roberto N. Muñoz
Mr Shon Kolomoisky
Mr Shuai Ruan
Mr Simon Biberger
Mr Siqi Deng
Mr Subhajit Chakraborty
Mr Trent Ralph
Mr Tze Cin Owyong
Mr Wen Liang Tan
Mr Yazhuo Wang
Mr Yihui Hou
Mr Yixiong Ji
Mr Yixuan Luo
Mr Yun Li
Mr Zifei Chen
Mrs Patrycja Ballard
Mrs Sarah Eskandarian
Ms Alison Goldingay
Ms Angela Keyte
Ms Anum Nisar
Ms Can Gao
Ms Eliza Rokhsat
Ms Ika Nur Fitriani
Ms Imali Madigasekara
Ms Irina Zharinova
Ms Joanna Guse
Ms Lara Gillan
Ms Maria Ritter
Ms Meredith Mahoney
Ms Mina Mohebimorad
Ms Monika Michalska
Ms Na Wu
Ms Parisa Hosseinabadi
Ms Pratiksha Dad
Ms Rehana Pervin
Ms Rosie Pelosi
Ms Swetha Chengala Madam
Ms Tamader Alhazani
Ms Yang Xu
Ms Yihan Dong
Ms Yvonne Hora
Roslyn Forecast
Yiheng Lu