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Coffee with postdocs

Coffee with Postdocs - Matt Thompson

Matt is currently developing radiation-resistant materials aimed to protect other components within the fusion reactor, like ITER.

Coffee with Postdocs - Zuzana Slavkovska

Zuzana and her colleagues are pushing the boundaries of our knowledge about the nature of the universe and its fundamental building blocks.

Student profiles

Exciting nuclei with strange shapes

"I'd heard that ANU was the best place in the southern hemisphere for research"

How quantum tunnelling created our world.

As a kid Patrick McGlynn loved to take things apart and see how they worked, and then put them back together.

Swept along by a historical wave

"That moment was when I first realized how important my work was"

Realising Feynman's quantum computing dreams

"There are already connections with a huge range of topics in physics, who's to say what's around the corner?"

Materials student strikes gold

"We're in a time where we no longer need to deal with what Nature gives us"

Winding path leads to the Sydney Harbour Bridge

I fell in love with Australia. Every moment free I spend travelling

The positive attractions of positrons

"Every day I walk into the lab and find out new things"

Looking for exploding stars at the bottom of the ocean

"When a star explodes, it travels through space, arrives on Earth, and settles on the ocean floor,"

A lifelong passion

"As a child, I was constantly surrounded by strong female scientists in science fiction media."

How to take a quantum photograph

"We are the first to bring the use of metasurfaces to the imaging of quantum entangled photons"

Travelling the world in search of diamonds

"My supervisor has been really supportive, don't underestimate how important that is"