Department of Physics and Astronomy

Projects

Projects per year 2004 2026

• 4 Not started
• 106 Active
• 426 Finished

Projects per year

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  CAP2020: NSW Chief Scientist Conference Grant: Communicating Astronomy with the Public 2020 (CAP2020)

  de Grijs, R., Spitler, L. & De Marco, O.

  6/01/20 → 31/10/20

  Project: Research

• Enhanced algorithms for optimization and FeMoco

  Berry, D.

  1/01/20 → 31/12/20

  Project: Research

• CubeSat Platform

  Cetin, E., O'Neill, C. J., Lawrence, J., Spitler, L., Reisenfeld, S. & Hashmi, R.

  1/01/20 → 31/12/20

  Project: Other

• Optical mammography using shortwave infrared fluorescent probes: improving early detection and monitoring for breast cancer

  Lu, Y.

  1/11/19 → 31/12/20

  Project: Other

• Sydney Vital Travel Award

  Deng, W. & Zvyagin, A.

  6/08/19 → 31/12/19

  Project: Research

• CSIRO living stipend for MRes Y2 project: Entropy Mining from Pulsars

  Dawson, J. & Tranfa, L.

  15/07/19 → 14/07/20

  Project: Research

• OSP2019: Expanding Quantum Hybrid Science and Technology at MQ – including neutral atom, trapped particle and squeezing via new collaborations

  Twamley, J.

  1/07/19 → 13/12/19

  Project: Research

• Hector-1: completing the revolutionary multi integral field spectrograph

  Bland-Hawthorn, J., Lawrence, J., Owers, M., McDermid, R., Sharp, R., Cortese, L., Bryant, J. J., Croom, S., Groves, B. A., Power, C., Leon-Saval, S., Robotham, A. S. G. & Catinella, B.

  23/04/19 → 22/04/20

  Project: Other

• ARC LIEF: 3D glass printing: the next step in advanced manufacturing

  Ebendorff-Heidepriem, H., McLaughlin, R. A., Withford, M., Lancaster, D. G., Priest, C. & Ghomashchi, R.

  22/03/19 → 31/12/19

  Project: Research

• Tripling the scientific productivity of Macquarie’s Huntsman Telescope facility

  Spitler, L., De Marco, O., McDermid, R., Lawrence, J., Owers, M., Dawson, J., Zucker, D. & Kotachery, D.

  1/01/19 → 31/12/19

  Project: Other

• A general use, portable, full-range vacuum pumping station with leak detector

  Schwab, C., Downes, J., Ellis, S., Mildren, R., Kane, D., Carman, R., Twamley, J., Volz, T., Coutts, D. W. & McDermid, R.

  1/01/19 → 31/12/19

  Project: Other

• K-band testing and progressing to conceptual design phase of the Subaru/ULTIMATE multiple integral field unit instrument

  Zafar, T. & Hopkins, A.

  1/01/19 → 31/12/20

  Project: Other

• Solid-State Probe for NMR Studies at Macquarie University

  Jiang, Y., Jacob, D., Wu, S., Garcia-Bennett, A., Venkatesan, K., Lu, Y., Zhao, S. & Shi, B.

  1/01/19 → 31/12/19

  Project: Other

• The Origin of Galactic Positrons

  Ellis, S. & Collins, M.

  1/01/19 → 31/12/20

  Project: Other

• Portable, sensitive and versatile infrared spectrometer covering 1 to 12 um

  Jackson, S., Woodward, R. & Fuerbach, A.

  1/01/19 → 31/12/19

  Project: Other

• By Sky, Land and Sea: Linking diverse remote-sensing disciplines through AI and robotics

  Purcell, C.

  1/01/19 → 31/12/19

  Project: Research

• SOLSTIS – a versatile laser for creating new colours and exploring novel nanoparticles

  Volz, T., Spence, D., Mildren, R., Brown, L., Inglis, D., Rogers, L., Steel, M., Pask, H. & Coutts, D. W.

  1/01/19 → 31/12/19

  Project: Other

• MQ Safety Net: Unleashing anomalously-fast heat dissipation in diamond

  Mildren, R.

  1/01/19 → 31/12/19

  Project: Research

• OOA_Google: Optimizing circuits for quantum-enhanced population transfer

  Berry, D.

  1/11/18 → 31/10/19

  Project: Research

• Strategic acceleration of radio astronomy research in the Department of Physics and Astronomy

  Steel, M. & Dawson, J.

  30/08/18 → 29/08/19

  Project: Other

• Post-AGB Stars in the Magellanic Clouds as Tracers of the Origin of Elements in the Universe

  Kotachery, D.

  1/07/18 → 31/12/18

  Project: Research

• Australian National Fabrication Facility - Optofab Node (RAAP) 2017/18

  Withford, M., Fleming, S. & Dzurak, A.

  1/07/18 → 30/06/20

  Project: Other

• Veloce Verde+Azzuro - Tripling the Power of Australia's Planet Foundry

  Schwab, C., Tinney, C., Da Costa, G., Carter, B., Murphy, S., Stello, D., Wright, D., Yong, D., Marsden, S., Kotachery, D., De Silva, G. & Huber, D.

  21/05/18 → 31/12/18

  Project: Research

• Cooperative Research Centre for Smart Sensing Concrete Structures

  Clark, S., Withford, M., Mukhopadhyay, S., Valux, M., Samali, B. & Montiero, P.

  1/05/18 → 31/12/19

  Project: Other

• Business Innovation Challenge: A strategic model for Macquarie -school -industry collaborations

  Leung, P., Kay, R., Tickle, L., Downes, J. & Kirkpatrick-Jones, M.

  1/04/18 → 31/12/18

  Project: Teaching

• Australian Astronomical Optics – The Macquarie University node of the National Optical Astronomy Instrumentation Capability

  Steel, M.

  23/03/18 → 31/12/19

  Project: Other

• PAPST: Pocket Astronomy in Pocket-Sized Towns

  Joyce, A.

  1/03/18 → 14/09/18

  Project: Other

• Early diagnostic and staging of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis with high content image cytometry of peripheral cells.

  Rowe, D., Goldys, E., Anwer, A. & Gosnell, M.

  26/02/18 → 30/06/19

  Project: Other

• Tracing the accretion history of the Milky Way with chemical tagging

  Zucker, D., Martell, S. & Venn, K.

  14/01/18 → 13/01/21

  Project: Research

• High-throughput field-deployable optical detection of biohazards relevant for national security

  Nadort, A., Wang, Y., Raymond, J., Mardones, E., Anwer, A. & Goldys, E.

  2/01/18 → 1/01/20

  Project: Research

• Broadband mid-infrared light source for wide spectrum optical testing and measurement

  Jackson, S., Fuerbach, A., Woodward, R. & Gross, S.

  1/01/18 → 31/12/18

  Project: Other

• A research grade astronomy CCD camera for high precision spectroscopy

  Schwab, C., Coutts, D. W., Zucker, D., Spitler, L., McDermid, R., Feger, T., Kotachery, D. & Owers, M.

  1/01/18 → 31/12/18

  Project: Research

• DVCR MQRIS Small: Kilowatt-class laser for physics, earth sciences and engineering research

  Mildren, R., Spence, D., Clark, S., Xu, W., Jackson, S., Dawes, J., Kitzler, O., Coutts, D. W. & Downes, J.

  1/01/18 → 31/12/18

  Project: Other

• Femtosecond laser micropyrolysis gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer

  George, S., Paterson, J., Van Kranendonk, M., Brocks, J., Sherwood, N., Jacob, D., Fuerbach, A., Brock, G., Loehr, S. & Sestak, S.

  1/01/18 → 31/12/18

  Project: Research

• Integrating Entrepreneurship Skill Development in Engineering

  Cheng, S., Tse, N., Lang, C., Wilson, B., Downes, J. & Semple, A.

  1/01/18 → 31/12/18

  Project: Teaching

• Research-Integrated Learning With On-Campus Facilities: Detecting Other Worlds with Macquarie University Observatory

  McDermid, R., Schwab, C. & Coutts, D. W.

  1/01/18 → 31/12/18

  Project: Teaching

• DVCR MQRIS Small: Taking the guesswork out of 3D optical waveguide circuits

  Gross, S., Withford, M., Fuerbach, A., Woodward, R., Ams, M., Teddy Fernandez, T., Douglass, G., Gretzinger, T., Ross-Adams, A., Bharathan, G. & Fashola, S.

  1/01/18 → 31/12/18

  Project: Research

• ARC COE SSO: ARC Centre of Excellence for Solar System Origins

  O'Neill, C. J., Bland, P. A., Reddy, S. M., Ireland, T., Nemchin, A., Jourdan, F., Benedix, G. K., Wardle, M., Cavosie, A., Towner, M., King, P., Amelin, Y., Tomkins, A. G., Price, D., Horner, J. & Carter, B. D.

  1/01/18 → 31/12/18

  Project: Other

• DSPConf: Riding the Innovation LIghtwave

  McDermid, R.

  1/12/17 → 31/10/18

  Project: Other

• AR app for physical campus exploration of evolution / biology / Big History, while walking down Wally’s Walk

  Gillings, M., Christian, D., George, S., Steel, M., Downey, G., O'Neill, C. J., Brock, G., Staas, L., Rampe, M. & Ens, E.

  11/09/17 → 31/12/17

  Project: Teaching

• Shining Light on the Dark Milky Way (ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award)

  Dawson, J.

  30/06/17 → 29/06/20

  Project: Research

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• Optimised automated growth of luminescent nanocrystals for advanced security labelling

  Piper, J., Lu, Y. & Xu, X.

  21/06/17 → 20/06/18

  Project: Research

• Hector-1: Completing a revolutionary machine to unravel how galaxies evolve

  McDermid, R., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Croom, S., Bryant, J. J., Spitler, L., Kewley, L. & Couch, W.

  12/05/17 → 31/12/18

  Project: Research

• Designer defects in diamond for solid state quantum networks

  Rogers, L.

  1/03/17 → 30/07/20

  Project: Research

• Secrets of the Milky Way's Hidden Gas: Pathway to Discovery (Macquarie University Research Development Grant)

  Dawson, J. & Wardle, M.

  1/01/17 → 31/12/18

  Project: Research

• Mechanical Engineering teaching laboratories

  Downes, J.

  1/01/17 → 31/12/17

  Project: Teaching

• Cloud-based virtual laboratory for large statistics units

  Downes, J.

  1/01/17 → 31/12/17

  Project: Teaching

• Mathematics in Action

  Downes, J.

  1/01/17 → 31/12/17

  Project: Teaching

• Controlling atomic species migration in laser irradiated glasses

  Withford, M. & Gross, S.

  1/01/17 → 31/12/20

  Project: Research

• Background-free imaging of single membrane-receptors with nanophosphors

  Zvyagin, A., Goldys, E. & Lu, Y.

  1/01/17 → 31/12/20

  Project: Research