Directors
Prof Andrew J. Fleming
Andrew Fleming is the lab director and Australian Research Council Future Fellow at The University of Newcastle, Australia.
A/Prof Yuen K. Yong
Dr. Yuen Kuan Yong is the associate lab director, and an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow at The University of Newcastle, Australia
Academic Staff
Dr Ben S. Routley
Ben Routley is a research fellow on near field and scanning optical lithography.
Dr Canh Vu
Canh Vu is a research fellow on 3D-nanoprinting.
Mr Mark Holdsworth
Mark Holdsworth is a research staff on advanced control strategy for espresso machines.
Mr Jayden Maidstone
Jayden Maidstone is a research staff on advanced control strategy for espresso machines.
PhD Students
Mr Taylor Young
Mr Taylor Young is a research student working on modelling and control of steerable catheters.
Mr Ben Stanwell
Mr Ben Stanwell is a research student working on subsurface atomic force microscopy.
Mr Clayton Carlon
Mr Clayton Carlon is a research student working on subsurface atomic force microscopy.
Associates
Dr Michael G. Ruppert
Michael Ruppert is a research fellow on piezoelectric microcantilever sensors and novel AFM methods.
Dr Arnfinn A. Eielsen
Arnfinn Aas Eielsen is a research fellow working on ultra-high resolution sensing and data conversion.
Dr Steven I. Moore
Steven Moore is a research fellow on MEMs cantilevers and sensor devices.
Dr Rudolf Seethaler
Rudolf Seethaler is an associate professor at the the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
A/Prof Kam K. Leang
A/Prof. Kam K. Leang is the Director of the Electroactive and Autonomous Systems Lab at the University of Nevada – Reno, Reno, Nevada, USA.
Dr Sumeet Aphale
Dr. Sumeet Aphale is a researcher and Lecturer at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland.
Mr Sepehr Z. Mansour
Mr. Sepehr Zarif Mansour is a research student at the University of British Columbia, Canada.
Research Visitors
Mr Paszkal Papp
Paszkal Papp is doing a PhD in Physical Chemistry at University of Szeged, Hungary with a specialization in modelling various physicochemical systems.
Ms Linlin Li
Linlin Li is working toward the Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.
Mr Harm Schepens
Harm Schepens is a masters student Mechanical Engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), the Netherlands.
Alumni
Dr Matheus Xavier
Matheus submitted his PhD Thesis on Design, Modeling, Fabrication and Control of Fluid-Driven Bioinspired Soft Actuators and Robots in 2022.
Dr Nata Franco
Natã submitted his PhD Thesis on Active Cantilever with Integrated Actuation and Sensing for Use in Off-Resonance Tapping AFM in 2022.
Dr David M. Harcombe
David submitted his PhD Thesis on High-speed Demodulation in Multifrequency Atomic Force Microscopy in 2020.
Dr Meysam Omidbeike
Meysam submitted his PhD Thesis on Design, Sensing and Control of Monolithic Nanopositioning Devices in 2021.
Dr Luke R. McCourt
Luke submitted his PhD Thesis on Design, Fabrication and Characterisation of Improved Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Probes in 2022.
Dr Yik R. Teo
Yik submitted his PhD Thesis on signal processing and control for nanopositioning and sensors in 2017.
Dr Omid T. Ghalehbeygi
Omid Tayefeh Ghalehbeygi submitted his PhD Thesis on scan-based and near-field lithography in 2018.
Mr Digvijay Raghuvanshi
Digvijay Raghuvanshi submitted his Masters Thesis on piezoelectric actuators and nanopositioning in 2018.
Dr Mohd N. Islam
Mohd Noor Islam submitted his PhD Thesis on electromagnetic localization of biomedical devices in 2017.
Dr Shannon Rios
Shannon Rios submitted his PhD Thesis on miniature piezoelectric robotics in 2017.
Dr Garth Berriman
Garth Berriman was a research fellow in probe based lithography and deposition.
Dr Douglas Russell
Douglas Russell submitted his PhD Thesis on the control of nanopositioning systems in 2016 at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland.
Timothy Lim
Timothy Lim was an research assistant working on FEA simulations of microcantilevers.