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Title: In-situ X-ray Analysis for Mechanistic Understanding
Title: In-situ X-ray Analysis for Mechanistic Understanding
Dr Yuxiang Wu is a lecturer in Materials Science and Engineering at Monash University, having recently joined from the Max-Planck-Institut for Sustainable Materials in Germany. His research focuses on metal phase transformation, deformation, and mineral processing, emphasising the kinetics and kinematics of materials. In situ experiments are important for developing a mechanistic understanding in these areas. Dr. Wu has been a user of the MXP facility since its early establishment and has extensive experience with synchrotron and neutron-based techniques at several prestigious institutions, including the Australian Synchrotron, ANSTO, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) in Germany, and the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in France. His experimental work encompasses a variety of temperature-resolved and strain-resolved in situ experiments to reveal phase transformations and plasticity under different sample environments, including the effects of hydrogen.
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Dr Yuxiang Wu
Dr Yuxiang Wu
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Dr Leonie van 't Hag
Dr Leonie van 't Hag
Dr Leonie van ‘t Hag obtained her MSc degree in Physical Chemistry from Wageningen University & Research (NL) and PhD from the Department of Chemical Engineering at The University of Melbourne (AU) in 2017. Leonie was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at ETH Zurich (CH) for three years before starting as a Lecturer at Monash University in late 2019. The Hybrid Assembly Group focuses on the sustainable production and processing of soft materials. We do this by investigating the structure – property relationships for food, biological and biomedical applications using advanced scattering and microscopy techniques. Dr van ‘t Hag is now a tenured Senior Lecturer and her work is placed at the interface of fundamental science and industrial applications that contribute to achieving sustainable development goals. This has led to participation as a CI in two ARC Research Hubs in 2022 – 2023 (RECARB Hub & Value-Added Processing of Carbon Waste, 10M$ each) and one ARC Discovery Project on mRNA – lipid nanoparticle interactions in 2023.
Title: From Embryos to Fossils: 3D CT Imaging at the Monash X-ray CT Facilities
Title: From Embryos to Fossils: 3D CT Imaging at the Monash X-ray CT Facilities
Professor Alistair Evans is a zoologist, evo-devo biologist and paleobiologist. His expertise is in the evolution, function and development of mammalian teeth, ranging from rodents to hominins, working on questions involving biomechanics, developmental biology and evolutionary biology. He has 25 years of experience in 3D imaging across many modalities, scanning mammal embryos, extinct Tasmanian tigers and giant fossil whales. Alistair has been the co-director of the Monash X-ray CT facility since 2013 and has run experiments at synchrotrons including SPring-8 in Japan and the Australian Synchrotron.
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Prof Alistair Evans
Prof Alistair Evans
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Dr Christopher D Easton
Dr Christopher D Easton
Dr Christopher D Easton leads surface science within the Manufacturing Research Unit at CSIRO Clayton. For the past several years, the team has focused their research on reproducibility challenges in relation to X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS) data acquisition, processing and analysis. As a result, Chris has been a guest editor for two special topic collections focused on reproducibility in the Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A. Chris has published 129 papers and has an h-index of 43 (Scopus)..
Dr. Yang Cao is a Beamline Scientist at the Australia Synchrotron, ANSTO, with a background in materials engineering and nanotechnology. Yang received her a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Melbourne in 2023 and a Bachelor of Materials Engineering (Honours) from Monash University in 2017. Dr Cao’s research interest involves developing novel 2D-materials-based assemblies for applications including supercapacitors, batteries, ion separation membranes and bioelectronics. She has diverse characterization and analytical technique expertise for probing nanostructured materials to unravel structure-property relationships. Her expertise includes synchrotron-based X-ray analysis (SXAS/WAXS, IR), electrochemical characterization, XRD, Raman and Rheometry. Additionally, Dr. Cao’s research interest concerns various x-ray techniques, particularly XRD-CT, 3D XRD and DCT, which combines x-ray diffraction with computed tomography data acquisition to spatially resolve diffraction data.
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Dr Yang Cao
Dr Yang Cao
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