Invited Speakers

Plenary Speaker -- Ian Madsen

Ian Madsen has over 50 years of experience in X-ray analysis, including X-ray fluorescence and both X-ray powder and single-crystal diffraction. He started in CSIRO Minerals since 1969. His expertise include but not limited to:

Accuracy in powder diffraction, especially for QPA. Ian was the organiser and coordinator of a Round Robin on quantitative phase analysis conducted under the sponsorship of IUCr Commission on Powder Diffraction.
Methodology development in quantitative phase analysis and the determination of optimum data collection strategies for the analysis of powder diffraction data with particular reference to Rietveld analysis.
The development of instrumentation and methodology for on-line mineralogical analysis in mineral processing plants. This makes it possible to control the process using mineralogical, rather than chemical information.
In-situ XRD under extreme conditions. Ian’s group in CSIRO Minerals has had long involvement in studies which aim to measure the mineralogical changes taking place under extreme conditions (temperature, pressure, pH etc..) which emulate those found in real industrial processing plants and manufacturing lines.

He is author or joint author of >100 research papers and 9 book chapters including Chapter 3.9 - Quantitative Phase Analysis in the IUCr International Tables for Crystallography, Volume H – Powder Diffraction.

Ian was a long-serving member of (i) the Australian X-ray Analytical Association’s (AXAA) National Council, (ii) the IUCr Commission on Powder Diffraction (CPD) and (iii) advisory panels for powder diffraction beamline instruments at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) Australian Synchrotron and the OPAL research reactor.

In February 2008, Ian was the inaugural recipient of the Bob Cheary Award for Excellence in Powder Diffraction at the AXAA national meeting and was made a Life Member of the AXAA in 2015.

Prof Michael Preuss for grand opening

Professor Michael Preuss joined Monash University in August 2020 coming from the University of Manchester, UK, where he continues to have a 20% position. Michael was educated in Germany where he obtained his first degree from the Technical University Berlin and his PhD from the Technical University Hamburg-Harburg. He joined Manchester at the end of 1999 and was offered a lectureship position in 2003 to become part of the newly formed Materials Performance Centre (MPC). In 2010, Michael became deputy director of the Rolls-Royce Nuclear University Technology Centre and was promoted to a chair position. In the following year, Michael was awarded a highly prestigious EPSRC Leadership Fellowship and was also appointed deputy director of the MPC. In 2016, Michael became champion of the Material Systems for Demanding Environment theme within the Sir Henry Royce Institute, a new UK national institute for materials research and innovation and in 2019 he became director of MIDAS, a new EPSRC programme grant focusing on fuel cladding research.

Michael has been highly active in utilising large-scale research facilities for materials engineering applications and has served on access panels and scientific advisory committees of various neutron scattering facilities such as the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL, France) and the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source (UK). Since 2016, Michael chairs the scientific advisory committee of the European Spallation Source, currently under construction in Lund, Sweden.

In 2013, Michael was awarded the Grunfeld Memorial Medal by the UK Institute of Metals, Mineral and Mining (IOM3) and in 2016 he was elected Fellow of Materials, Minerals and Mining. Michael was also awarded the ASTM Kroll medal for his lifetime achievement in zirconium research.

Keynote speaker -- Dr Asadul Haque

Dr. Haque is a tenured-track teaching and research faculty member (Level C) at Monash University and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia. He is the director of the micro-CT laboratory in the Department of Civil Engineering with over a decade of experience in micro-CT imaging and analysis applied to engineering materials. His research interests include material characterisation, micro-mechanical studies of geomaterials, and the load-bearing mechanisms of piles. Dr Haque has secured multiple national competitive grants, successfully supervised many doctoral candidates, and published extensively in reputed journals, highlighting his significant contributions to the field.

Dr Erin Brodie

Dr. Erin Brodie is the Research and Innovation Manger of the Woodside FutureLab at Monash University, Australia, and is passionate about research translation to industry and archaeology. She is a metallurgist at heart, with a background in AM of biomedical devices, having worked on applications such as bone implants and degradable coronary stents. Currently, she manages the Woodside FutureLab, a materials development, data science and additive manufacturing lab and works closely with a team of undergraduate and PhD students, research fellows, academics and industry partners to provide innovative AM solutions for a range of industries. The current portfolio of the FutureLab covers a wide range of projects from the development of new alloys for LPBF, AM reactor design for new energy solutions, tool design for sustainable packaging, prototyping assistive biomedical devices to 3D reconstruction and analysis of archaeological artefacts.

Dr Wen Liang Tan

Dr. Wen Liang (Liam) Tan is a beamline scientist for the Powder Diffraction beamline at the Australian Synchrotron. He provides support to beamline users and assists in the maintenance and development of the beamline.

Dr Tan’s research interests primarily revolve around thin-film-based organic and perovskite semiconductors for optoelectronic applications such as solar cells and field-effect transistors. He has been using X-ray diffraction/scattering techniques to characterise the microstructure of thin films and explore their correlation with electronic properties, with expertise in surface characterisation of thin films using grazing-incidence (GI) XRD/WAXS technique. He has extensive experience in a range of in situ experiments including real-time investigations of the film microstructure evolution during coating process from solution. He is also experienced in small-angle scattering techniques (SAXS/SANS) which he has utilised to establish the correlation between the conformation of semiconducting polymer chains in solutions, thin-film microstructure and electronic properties. He was selected to attend 3rd Asia Oceania Forum Synchrotron Radiation School (AOFSRR) in Taiwan in 2019 and the ANSTO-HZB Neutron School in Lucas Heights in 2022.

Miss Izabela Milogrodzka

Izabela Milogrodzka (She/Her) is a new SAXS/WAXS instrument scientist at the Australian Synchrotron. She has recently joined from Monash University, where she completed her PhD, with a primary research focus on advancing therapeutic peptide-lipid nanomaterials. Her PhD work included a significant emphasis on comprehending the interactions and mechanisms involving peptides and membranes, as well as the alterations in lipid properties resulting from peptide encapsulation. To conduct her research, she utilized the SAXS/WAXS and SANS beamlines at ANSTO Clayton and Lucas Heights.

Dr Yuxiang Wu

Dr Yuxiang Wu is currently a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Microstructure Physics and Alloy Design at the Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung, Germany. He obtained his PhD from Monash University, Australia, in 2019. His research interests span two primary areas. The first is the digitisation of materials development, which involves developing quantitative models for microstructure evolution and machine learning-based representation of material properties. The second focuses on linking modelling to experimental observations via advanced X-ray/neutron diffraction and electron microscopy experiments. He has been a user of MXP since its early establishment and has also been a regular user of synchrotron/neutron-based techniques at the Australian Synchrotron, ANSTO, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) in Germany, and the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in France. His experimental work includes a range of temperature-resolved and strain-resolved in situ experiments to understand phase transformation and plasticity in various sample environments, including the hydrogen effect.

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