Postdoctoral Fellows - SEAM - ARC Training Centre

Dr Andrew Boden

vesna — Wed, 05 May 2021 02:24:28 +0000

Andrew Boden received his PhD in Chemistry and Biochemistry (2020) from Swinburne University of Technology, Australia, where his major research focus was in the field of materials science for applications in non-fouling and antimicrobial surfaces. Andrew’s previous research background has allowed for experience in areas such as polymer and peptide immobilisation strategies, but also many surface analysis techniques including X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), MALDI-ToF MS and surface plasmon resonance (SPR), SEM and AFM.

Andrew joined SEAM in 2021 as a Postdoctoral Fellow involved in several projects including the development of ‘Multifunctional Coatings for Long-term Antimicrobial Purposes’, ‘Biofunctionalised TiO2 as a novel component in binary colloidal crystal surfaces’ and will also work on an additional new project (from 2021) focused on ‘Multiplexed surface signals to inhibit mixed bacterial biofilm formation’. This project is expected to have significant impact in the healthcare and biomedical industries due to the severe complications caused by fouling of surfaces that operate within biological environments. Additionally, Andrew is involved with many STEM-related programs with Secondary Schools to engage and motivate the next generation of scientists through practical hands-on experience within the laboratory.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-boden-8187631a0/

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Dr Shareen Chan

vesna — Thu, 23 May 2024 05:58:52 +0000

Dr Shareen S.L. Chan completed her Bachelor of Engineering (Honours, Mechanical Engineering) at the National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore, in 2009. She worked in standards development; then for 9 years in industry as a mechanical engineer and assistant laboratory manager at TÜV SÜD PSB, on quality assurance of consumer products and medical devices.

In 2018, she moved to Melbourne, Australia, where she completed her PhD in Engineering from the University of Melbourne (Chemical and Biomedical Engineering) in 2023. Her doctoral thesis encompassed the topics of Additive Manufacturing (direct ink writing), colloidal and ceramic processing, rheology and bone tissue engineering. In 2023-2024, Shareen conducted research as a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Melbourne on spray atomisation and freeze drying of ceramic and MAX phase materials with the aim of improving flowability of feedstocks for powder-based Additive Manufacturing techniques.

Shareen joined the SEAM team as a postdoctoral research fellow at Swinburne University in 2024. She primarily collaborates with SEAM’s industrial partners on surface engineering projects, particularly in Additive Manufacturing via cold-spray and high-speed laser cladding (EHLA) for repair and refurbishment. Within these collaborations, she assists with process development and characterisation, as well as research student supervision and training. Her passion for education also extends to mentoring the younger generations, especially females, in the STEM fields.

Dr Shareen Chan was featured in the September 2024 edition of the Materials Australia Magazine

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shareen-chan/

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Dr Duy Quang Pham

liamb — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 02:22:07 +0000

Dr. Duy Quang Pham is a Professional Mechanical Engineer with expertise in surface engineering and coating characterizations, especially in biomaterials coatings for biomedical applications. He has significant hands-on experience in surface engineering using atmospheric plasma spray from designing to operating perspectives. His area of research involves applying emerging surface engineering methods and process innovations to generate new generations of coatings for medical devices. His expertise also associates with material characterization, mechanical testing, fatigue & durability analysis, robot programming, and automation system.

Dr. Pham is now working as a Research Engineer in the area of thermal spray coatings, as well as a Lecturer in Surface Engineering (ADM80007), Materials Engineering (ENG10002) and Materials Processing and Machining (MEE20005) at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. He is a certified Mechanical Engineer and a Member of the Institution of Engineers Australia (MIEAust) in the School of Mechanical and Biomedical engineering. He also serves as an Associate Investigator at the Australian Research Council Industrial Transformation Training Center (ARC ITTC) of Surface Engineering for Advanced Materials (SEAM). He previously worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at College of Medicine and Public Health at Flinders University, and Flinders Medical Center in Adelaide, South Australia.

Dr. Pham obtained his B.Eng in Mechanical Engineering-Mechatronics from Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (HCMUT), Vietnam. He has five years of professional engineering experience, where he worked for Kimberly-Clark Corporation focusing on production as well as research for personal care and family care products. Pham then completed his Master of Engineering from Swinburne University of Technology, Australia, graduating in the top 15% of students with the highest academic achievement. He then worked at CSIRO in Manufacturing Flagships as a Research Officer before receiving an offer for a full scholarship to do his Ph.D. at Swinburne University of Technology.as a SEAM affiliated candidate.

Dr. Pham has extensive experience in cold plasma technology and plasma-made nanostructure, microbial sterilization, and other applications by building various cold plasma systems. These novel made-plasma systems generate novel antibacterial surfaces in combination with biomaterials to treat and prevent infectious diseases. His research focuses on the utilization of plasma technology as a useful nonthermal technique for applications in biology and medicine. The implementations for using cold plasma can be applied in various fields including (i) Medicine: sterilization, wound healing, and disease treatment; (ii) Food: decontamination, enzyme inactivation, and toxin degradation; (iii) Polymer: sterilization, surface modification, and surface functionalization.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/duy-quang-pham-phd-389654123/

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Dr Samuel Pinches

liamb — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 04:40:55 +0000

Dr Samuel Pinches joined the SEAM team at Swinburne University in 2019. Within the SEAM team at Swinburne, Samuel primarily collaborates with two of the industrial partners on surface-engineering projects. Within these collaborations, his role is to assist with process development and characterisation, with the goal of building up robust and validated capabilities onsite at partner businesses.

The current projects that he is working on include:

In addition to Surface-Engineering, Samuel’s research background includes Ceramic Processing, Additive Manufacturing, and Computational Modelling.

Samuel’s PhD research was in the Near-net shaping of Dense Ceramics via Freeze-Casting. Samuel studied Chemical Engineering at the University of Melbourne, completing his Master of Engineering in 2014, and Bachelor of Science (Chemical Systems) in 2011.

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Dr Anthony Roccisano

vesna — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 22:13:26 +0000

Dr Anthony Roccisano is a Postdoctoral Fellow with SEAM, from the University of South Australia in the Future Industries Institute (FII). Anthony’s primary research strengths include materials characterization, electrochemical analysis, and mechanical design. Anthony’s research interests include:

Laser Metal Deposition (LMD) for wear and corrosion resistance
LMD process optimization and control

Anthony completed a Bachelor of Mechanical and Aerospace engineering with 1st class honours in 2015 from the University of Adelaide. Anthony received a PhD from the University of Adelaide in 2020 from the school of mechanical engineering for his thesis titled ‘Manufacturing processes leading to improved high pH SCC resistance in pipes’.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthony-roccisano/

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Dr Surinder Singh

vesna — Sun, 06 Jun 2021 18:51:39 +0000

Dr Surinder Singh joined SEAM at Swinburne University of Technology in April 2021 as a post-doctorate fellow. Currently, he is working on three SEAM projects in collaboration with five different industries in the areas of surface engineering and thermal spraying. He received his Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Ropar India (2019) in Mechanical Engineering. Based upon the quality of his research work, he was awarded with director’s fellowship during his Ph.D. Surinder has published 23 refereed journal articles. He is also an excellent volunteer reviewer of academic journals in the field of manufacturing, and surface coatings, and received an excellent reviewer reward from a top journal in his research area, the Journal of Thermal Spray Technology.

Surinder has demonstrated a deep understanding of thick copper coatings deposited by cold spray and laser cladding technologies, which have potential applications in sectors related to public health (anti-corona surfaces), marine (anti-bio-fouling), energy (Tokamaks), and automotive components (exhaust system). Moreover, his research collaboration with General Electric (GE) India has uncovered the potential of cold spray technique for its use as an additive manufacturing technology. Surinder has also worked on designing life estimation methods for electric vehicle batteries incorporating Artificial Intelligence techniques.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/surinder-singh-746346153/

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=nQI86K4AAAAJ&hl=en

ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Surinder-Singh-4

ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3375-6088

Scopus: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57209061784

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Dr Rou Jun Toh

liamb — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 04:52:00 +0000

Rou Jun Toh obtained her PhD in Chemistry and Biological Chemistry (2017) from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, where she established herself in the field of materials for electrochemical sensing and energy applications. In 2017, she moved to Melbourne, Australia to join the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) as a postdoctoral research fellow in the Manufacturing Business Unit, where her work was focused towards the development of biomaterial interfaces which would have significant impact in the fields of biomedical science and environmental remediation.

Rou Jun joined RMIT in 2020 as a SEAM Postdoctoral Fellow, as part of the School of Engineering, with metal fabrication and corrosion as the central theme of her work. Rou Jun is involved in the project ‘Optimisation of Surface Properties of Additive Components Using an Additive/Subtractive Machine’ in collaboration with the industry partner organisation, Romar Engineering Pty Ltd. Her research experience in the field of materials technology has sparked an interest in advancing the field by solving crucial materials engineering problems, and hence enabling relevant organisations and companies to be more competitive on the global scale. Moreover, with a passion to inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers, Rou Jun is actively engaged in community outreach programs.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rou-jun-toh-765470129/

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Dr Keng-Te Lin

liamb — Tue, 21 Apr 2020 07:25:10 +0000

Dr Keng-Te Lin is a Postdoctoral Fellow with SEAM. He received his Bachelor degree from the National Tsing Hua University (Hsinchu, Taiwan) in 2010, and in 2016, was awarded his PhD degree from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Taiwan University (Taipei, Taiwan) for his thesis entitled “Development of Broadband Operation and Low Power-Consumption of Photo-Electronic-Thermo Detection and Conversion Devices”.

Dr Lin received a Postdoctoral Fellowship (2017) from the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), Taiwan. He has received several accolades, of which some include: Vice-Chancellor’s Research Excellence Award, Swinburne University of Technology (2019); Australia Nanotechnology Network (ANN) Early Career Research (ECR) Award (2019); Lam Research Award from the Lam Research Corporation and National Taiwan University (2016).

Dr Lin has worked across several research projects in the fields of nanophotonics, plasmonics, and solar thermal energy conversion in the last five years. He is currently working on investigating photothermal management at the nanoscale for solarthermal conversion system, development of new photovoltaic devices, and fundamental physics of 2D materials. He currently works on the investigation of the optical properties and protection capability of graphene films.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/keng-te-lin-39a437121/

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Dr Thomas Pattison

vesna — Sun, 06 Jun 2021 18:38:18 +0000

Dr Thomas Pattison joined SEAM as an ARC Postdoctoral Fellow in 2021. He completed his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering as a member of the Polymer Science Group at the University of Melbourne under the supervision of Prof. Greg Qiao and in conjunction with Dr. Robert Miller at IBM’s Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California, USA. His thesis, titled “Nanofabrication of patterned surface structures by controlling surface-initiated and crosslinked ultra-thin polymeric films” explores the use of surface-initiated polymerization and crosslinked thin films as a tool to fabricate the next generation of nanoscale devices.

Prior to his graduate research, he completed an Honours degree in Chemistry at The University of Melbourne, and double degree Bachelor of Science (Nanotechnology/Applied Science) from RMIT University, as well as research internships at CSIRO and Australian National University. His research interests include surface-initiated polymerization and surface modification, thin polymer coatings and device fabrication, as well as additive manufacturing and biomaterials. Tom is also highly interested in translational research and entrepreneurship, and is passionate about industrial-academic collaborative partnerships.

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3029-5896

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tgpattison/

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Dr Patrick O’Toole

vesna — Sun, 06 Jun 2021 18:34:05 +0000

Patrick joined SEAM and RMIT as a Research Fellow in January 2021 to develop a model of laser metal deposition and apply it to high-speed laser cladding, and to develop a model integration to predict hot cracking in 3D printed parts. Previously, Patrick worked at CSIRO in the Metal Industries Materials and Process Modelling team, where he developed a multiscale model of solidification of Al-Si alloys. This model is currently being used to generate training data for machine learning methods to improve part-scale simulation with accurate solidification characteristics. Prior to this, Patrick worked at the University of Melbourne in collaboration with UNSW Engineering and DST Group maritime research to develop scale-bridging microstructure and crystal plasticity methods.

Patrick holds a bachelor’s degree with first-class honours in chemistry from The University of Sydney. Patrick obtained his PhD, from the Universities of Sydney and Venice, specializing in computational chemistry, mesoscale particle simulation, and free-energy methods.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/piotxyz/

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