ICONN 2006 Research Highlights

Paul Mulvaney is currently an ARC Federation Fellow and Professor of Chemistry in the School of Chemistry and Bio21 Institute at the University of Melbourne. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Melbourne in 1989 for studies on the radiation-induced dissolution of colloidal metal oxides. He carried out postdoctoral research work at the Hahn–Meitner Institute in Berlin from 1989 to 1992. He was a Humboldt Research Fellow at the Max–Planck Institute for Colloids and Surfaces in Potsdam in 2000, and again at the CAESAR Institute in Bonn in 2005. His current interests involve the optical properties of single quantum dots, surface plasmon spectroscopy of single metal nanocrystals, nanocrystal-based biochemical markers, nanocrystal-based electronics, photonic crystals, nanomechanics, and the use of atomic force microscopy to measure surface forces.