Supervision & Teaching

Mentoring the next generation of researchers and delivering innovative pedagogies

Total Students Supervised

PhD Students

Honours Students

FRT Students

3rd Year Projects

PhB ASC Students

Doctoral Supervision

PhD Students

Sai Vinnakota

Nanopore sensing of heavy metal ions using DNAzymes

Current

Xiang Lian

Development of nanofluidic devices for biomolecular sensing

Current

Lakshmi Raja

Detection of blood-based biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease using solid state nanopore sensing

Current

Nahid Afrin

Development of conical nanopores for molecular separation and biosensing

Current

Taleb Alwadi

Semiconductor nano-foams for sensor and energy applications

Current

Honours Supervision

Honours Students

Ben Gast

Physics Honours 2025/2026

Currently Supervising

ANU University Medal

Hancheng Shao

Nanopore-AI integration research

Completed

Tianshi Zhou

Physics Honours 2022/2023

Completed

Undergraduate Supervision

Research Students

FRT Students

Lakshya Sankhla2025 (Current)

Prakash Kumbakar2025 (Current)

Lakshmi Raja2024 Maitri PhD Scholarship

Rudradeep Chakraborty2022

Shishir Shetty2024

PhB ASC Students

Aratrik SamantaS2 2025 (Current)

Ben GastS1 2024

Daniel MartinS1 2024

Julius CleggS2 2024

Marion HalasSum 2024

Srestha RoyS2 2024

3rd Year Projects

Ayush AdhikariS1 2025

Aditya Singh TejasS2 2024

Bianca HodgesSum 2024

James ArnottS2 2024

Suzanna PercivalWin 2020

Teaching

Course Delivery

Academic In-Charge

First Year Physics Labs (PHYS1101)

2024 - Present

Lead delivery of 2 core laboratory modules to 350+ students annually
Two years of experience connecting fundamental physics experiments to research applications
Developing innovative pedagogies for research-led teaching

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