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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
We concluded a busy and successful year by playing lawn bawls in Randwick. Michal L was killing it and Vitor did well too. Not sure about the others (saw someone making ball hope like a bunny)… We enjoyed lots of pub food and drinks after (hopefully) not getting sunburnt. Have a nice break everyone and […]
Our PhD and PostDoc alumnus Michael has been awarded the Dean’s award for outstanding PhD theses. This award is given to PhD graduates who have completed their PhD in a timely manner, produced a thesis that requires only minimal corrections, received outstanding and/or excellent levels of achievement for all examination criteria, and in the opinion […]
