Graduates
Professor G Wallace has supervised 54 PhD students to successful completion and currently co-supervises 22 students. Those who have graduated have gone on to take up positions in academia, government research organisations and high technology companies in the USA, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Iran and of course Australia.
List of PhD Graduates
Year 2008
Jennifer Halldorsson- ", adventures await in Iceland.
Year 2007
Fatemeh Masdarolomoor-
"Novel Nanostructured Conducting Polymer Systems based on Sulfonated Polyaniline", Lecturer Iran.
Jan Magnus Gustavsson-
"Corrosion Protection using Conducting Polymers", research IPRI.
Scott McGovern-"The development of embedded sensors to assess the fatigue response of adhesive joints in marine environments", research IPRI.
Jakub Mazurkiewicz - "Ionic Liquids (IL’s) as electrolytes for conjugated polymer systems" - research IPRI.
Year 2006
Yanhze (Richard) Wu -'Sensors and Actuators for the Cochlear Implant using Inherently Conducting Polymers', Research Fellow, Dublin City University, Ireland.
Orawan Nagamna- 'Synthesis, Characterisation and Application of Inherently Conducting Polymer Nanoparticles', Senior Scientist, Unilever, Thailand.
Vahid Mottaghitalab -
' Fibre processing of conducting polymers and carbon nanotube composites using wet spinning'. Assistant Professor, Head of Textile Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, University of Guilan, IRAN.
Year 2005
George Tsekouras- Electrochemical and Photovoltaic Properties of Poly(Thiophene)s. Currently working as a research fellow in IPRI.
Binbin Xi- Novel Conducting Polymer Structures for Electrochemical Actuators. Currently working as a research fellow in IPRI.
Yingpit Pornputtkul - Development of Chiral Conducting Polymers for Asymmetric Electrosynthesis. Lecturer at King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology North Bangkok, Thailand.
Year 2004
David Reece -' Development of Conducting Polymers for Separations ', Product Development Scientist, Henkel Technologies, UK.
Gao Jin 'Jeffrey' - ' Conducting Polymer Sensors', our friend who tragically lost his life.
Jian Wu- 'Synthesis, Characterisation and Applications of Conducting Polymer Coated Textiles', is currently working at Bluescope Steel.
May Tahhan-' Carbon Nanotubes and Conducting Polymer Composites'.
Year 2003
Mei Gao-'Electrochemistry of Aligned Carbon Nanotubes', is currently working as a Research Scientist, CSIRO, Australia.
Jun Chen - 'Synthesis and Characterisation of Novel Conducting Polymers, and Their Application for Hydrogen Generation or Photovoltaic Devices' currently a Research Fellow, IPRI, UoW, Australia.
Chinnarat Boonchu - 'Synthesis and Stereochemical Studies of Chiral Polyanilines' International Business Segment Manager, HMC Polymers Co., Ltd., Thailand.
Tuan Nguyen -'Design Development and Utilisation of Conducting Polymer Sensors'. Research Scientist, Vietnam.
Violeta Misoska - 'Novel Membrane Composite Structures Based on Conducting Electroactive Polymers'.
Simon Moulton - 'Investigation of the Electrochemical Behaviour of Metal Electrodes in Biological Media' currently a Research Fellow, IPRI, UoW, Australia
Year 2001
Anton Dominis - 'Investigation of Polyaniline Emeraldine Salts for the Protection of Plain Carbon Steel' currently in a University Teaching Position (UoW), Australia
Ekaterina Strounina - 'Synthesis and Characterisation of Chiral Substituted Polyanilines' Research Scientist, University of Queensland, Australia.
Jie Ding - 'Separation and Recovery of Metal Ions using Conducting Polymers' at DSTO, Australia.
Roderick Shepherd - 'The Use of Conducting Polymer Sensors for Environmental Monitoring' currently Research Fellow, IPRI, UoW.
Charlotte Cutler - 'Electrochemical and Photoelectrochemical Studies of Functionalised Polythiophenes' currently Research Fellow, University of Florida, USA
Andrew Minett - 'Electrochemical Detection of Microorganisms using Conducting Polymers' currently ARC QEII Fellow at IPRI, UoW.
Year 2000
Sandra Cram - 'Electrochemically Polymerised Acrylics as Adhesion Promoting Layers at a Metal/Polymer Interface'.
Jelders Davey - 'Synthesis and Characterisation of Novel Conducting Electroactive Polymers for Metal Ion Transport' currently a Secondary School Teacher, Australia.
Toni Campbell - 'Development of a Biosensor for Determination of Human Blood Groups' currently Research Fellow, IPRI, UoW, Australia
Year 1999
Ian Norris - 'Synthesis and Characterisation of Chiral Conducting Polymers' currently Research Scientist, Santa Fe Science and Technology, USA.
Vickie Aboutanos - 'Preparation and Characterisation of Novel Conducting Polymer Colloids' , Product Development Manager, SICPA, Switzerland.
Byung Kim - 'The Synthesis and Characterisation of Hydrogel and Polypyrrole Blends' currently Research Fellow, IPRI, UoW, Australia.
Year 1998
Daniela Ongarato - 'The Development of a Generic Electrochemical Sensing System for Ion Chromatography' currently Executive Officer ICSM conference, IPRI, UoW.
Trevor Lewis - 'A Study of the Overoxidation of the Conducting Polymer Polypyrrole' currently Lecturer, University of Tasmania, Australia
Year 1997
Dezhi Zhou - 'Development of Conducting Polymer Membrane Structures for Protein and Gas Separation' Senior Technologist, Industrial Finish, Akzo Nobel.
Wen Lu - 'The Development of Conducting Polymer Based Sensors' Senior Research Scientist, ADA Technologies Inc., Colorado.
Syed Ashraf - 'Synthesis and Characterization of Chiral Monomers and Polymers' currently Research Fellow, IPRI, UoW, Australia
Year 1996
Parveen Akhtar - 'Conducting Polymer Electrodes for Electrochemical Detection of Amino Acids and Haloacetic Acids' currently Research Fellow, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada
Mir Majidi - 'Development and Application of Chiral Conducting Polymers' currently Academic Position, Iran
Year 1995
Reza Ansari - 'Thermal Studies of Conducting Electroactive Polymers' currently Academic Position, Iran
Hawick Chriswanto - 'Chromatographic Studies on the Properties of Polypyrrole and Polyaniline' currently Principal Scientist, Rubber Research Institute, Jakarta, Indonesia
Year 1994
Afshad Talaie - 'Electronic Properties of Novel Polypyrrole and Polyaniline Materials: A Resistometric Approach' currently Research Fellow, MITI, Japan
Abdolreza Mirmohseni - 'Electro-Separations using Conducting Polymer Membranes' currently Academic Position, Iran
Hossein Eisazadeh - 'Design and Production of Novel Conducting Polymer Colloids' currently Academic Position, Iran
Omowunmi Sadik - 'New Sensing Techniques using Conducting Electroactive Polymers' Professor, State University of New York at Binghampton, USA.
Year 1993
Huijun Zhao - 'Electrochemically Controlled Transport Across Conducting Electroactive Polypyrrole Membranes' currently a Lecturer, Griffith University, Australia
Mark Imisides - 'The Development of a Chemically-Modified Mercury Thin Film Electrode for Electroanalysis' currently Research Fellow IPRI, Wollongong.
Peter Teasdale - 'Characterization of the Chemical Properties of Polypyrrole and Polyaniline' currently a Lecturer, Griffith University, Australia
Peter Riley - 'Some Analytical Applications of Chemically Modified Electrodes' at Bluescope Steel
Year 1992
Richard John - 'Electrochemical Studies of Heterocyclic Conducting Polymers' currently a Lecturer, Griffith University, Australia
Year 1991
Yuping Lin - 'Use of Conducting Polymers for Electrochemical Detection and On-Line Derivatisation' currently a Senior Research Fellow, UNSW, Australia.
Year 1990
Joseph Barisci - 'Derivatisation and Electrochemical Detection in Flowing Solutions' , Senior Research Fellow, University of Texas Dallas, USA.
Hailin Ge - 'Use of Conducting Polymers for Chromatography' currently Managing Director HW Electrochem, Singapore
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