Dumplings and cocktail making class


Dec 01, 2025

We had a fun Monday afternoon end of year activity in King’s Cross learning how to make cocktails and Chinese dumplings. Thanks to Hubert and Jane for findings this great place. We were happy to have Ming join us too after his graduation. This was to say a big Thank You to all group members […]

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Ming’s graduation ceremony


Dec 01, 2025

Congratulations to Dr Ming Luo, our second 2025 PhD submitter, for graduating today. Ming has done an excellent job in his PhD, and we miss him! Luckily he continues to pursue research on metal additive manufacturing at The University of Sydney close-by. Great to meet Ming’s parents, partner and many friends and to take many […]

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Cindy’s and Stella’s graduation


Aug 19, 2025

Congratulations to Cindy for graduating with an outstanding PhD thesis from our group. Another round of congratulations to Stella who was our Honour’s student in 2024. Stella graduated with a Bachelor of Materials Science & Engineering degree and received the Perfect Engineering prize for her Honour’s thesis. So, double congratulations to our two superstars! Unfortunately, […]

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PTM Aaronson award to Cindy!


Jul 14, 2025

So proud to announce that our former PhD student and new Post-Doc Dr Cindy He took home the 2025 Aaronson award at the International Conference on Solid-Solid Phase Transformations in Inorganic Materials (PTM2025) in Delft, The Netherlands last week. There is only one such award every five years. Cindy’s application was selected from around ten submissions […]

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Our first group strategy retreat at Q station


May 19, 2025

On May 16 we had our first half-day group strategy retreat in Manly. This was great initiative mostly driven by Andrew with lots of help from David Pham – Thank You! Following an early ferry ride (surprisingly all made it on time), we had a number of talks and breakout sessions on equipment needs, collaborations, […]

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Ming’s spicy thesis submission dinner


Apr 28, 2025

Congratulations to Ming for submitting his excellent thesis on grain boundary engineering in superalloys and stainless steels via additive manufacturing. We celebrated his achievements at a Chinese restaurant with spicy food typical to the area where he grew up. Some not so spicy options were on offer too. Sadly, Sophie was down with a bad […]

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Nana graduation and farewell (double congrats)!


Apr 01, 2025

Nana celebrated his PhD graduation together with his best buddies from our group… Sophie was glad to see this as she had to celebrate with them in spirit due to an unfortunate clash with the TMS meeting in the US. Congratulations Nana, we are super proud of you of you. We are also super excited […]

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Cindy PhD thesis submission Cantonese dinner


Feb 14, 2025

We are very proud of our superstar PhD student Cindy who has submitted an outstanding PhD thesis in record time (little bit less than three years in). We celebrated with a Cantonese dinner at a restaurant with food from her hometown. Cindy is off to an amazing trip to China and Japan before joining us […]

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