Prof. Tanya M. Monro

Tanya M. Monro

Position: Chair of Photonics and Director of CoEP

Research areas: Design, fabrication and device applications of new classes of soft glass microstructured optical fibers, including work on new transmission fibres, highly nonlinear fibres, chem/bio sensing with new fibres and novel fibre lasers.

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Dr. Heike Ebendorff-Heidepriem

Heike Ebendorff-Heidepriem

Position: Deputy Director of CoEP

Research areas: Glass and materials chemistry, preform fabrication, soft-glass extrusion techniques.

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Dr. Shahraam Afshar V.

Shahraam Afshar V.

Position: Post-doctoral researcher

Research areas: Optical waveguide theory, waveguide modelling, nonlinear optics, fibre sensing.

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David Lancaster

David Lancaster

Position: Post-doctoral researcher

Research areas: Fibre lasers.

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Dr. Yahua Li

Yahua Li

Position: Post-doctoral researcher

Research areas: Fibre lasers.

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Dr. Yinlan Ruan

Yinlan Ruan

Position: Post-doctoral researcher

Research areas: Fibre sensing.

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Dr. Richard White

Richard White

Position: Post-doctoral researcher

Research areas: Nonlinear optics.

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Mr. Herbert Foo

Herbert Foo

Position: Lab technician

Research areas: Glass chemistry, soft-glass fabrication techniques.

Mr. Roger Moore

Roger Moore

Position: Fibre drawing technician

Research areas: Fibre drawing techniques.

Ms. Shaghik Atakaramians

Shaghik Atakaramians

Position: PhD student

Research areas: Terahertz waveguides, terahertz sensing, porous anti-guiding fibres.

Mr. Michael Bammann

Michael Bammann

Position: Masters student

Research areas: Large mode area near infra-red fibres.

Mr. Keiron Boyd

Keiron Boyd

Position: PhD student

Research areas: Fibre tapers, fibre tapering techniques, optical nanowires, nonlinear fibre optics, supercontinuum generation.

Miss Lan Lieu

Lan Lieu

Position: Honours student

Research areas: Biological sensing in microstructured optical fibres.

Mr. Sean Manning

Sean Manning

Position: PhD student

Research areas: χ² nonlinear fibre optics, optical fibre poling techniques, dielectric-metal fibres, surface plasmonics, nanophotonics.

Mr. Tilanka Munasinghe

Tilanka Munasinghe

Position: Honours student

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Mr. Michael Oermann

Michael Oermann

Position: PhD student

Research areas: Fibre sensing with novel optical fibres.

Mr. Kristopher J. Rowland

Kris Rowland

Position: PhD student, CoEP website administrator

Research areas: Soft-glass photonic bandgap fibres, optical waveguide theory, waveguide modelling, waveguide guidance mechanisms.

Mr. Erik Schartner

Erik Schartner

Position: PhD student

Research areas: Fibre sensing.

Mr. Stephen Warren-Smith

Stephen Warren-Smith

Position: PhD student

Research areas: Optical fibre theory, fibre coupling.

Mr. Mark Turner

Mark Turner

Position: Honours student

Research areas:

Mr. Ka Wu

Ka Wu

Position: Honours student

Research areas:

Mr. Wenqi Zhang

Wenqi Zhang

Position: PhD student

Research areas: Nonlinear fibre optics, fibre dispersion, optical fibre theory, novel fibre designs for flattend dispersion.