Our People - University of Wollongong

Director Centre for Medical Radiation Physics
Academic Staff
Honorary Academic Staff
Honorary Staff
Honorary Staff International
Technical Staff
Current Postgraduate Research Students

Distinguished Professor Anatoly Rozenfeld; MSc PhD

Theme leader: Micro- and nano-dosimetry and particle therapy

Semiconductor and scintillator radiation detectors. Radiation Dosimetry/microdosimetry/nanodosimetry applied to medical physics, radiation protection including space and high energy physics. Proton and Heavy ion therapy.

Administrative Staff

Dr Sianne Oktaria
Executive Assistant for Distinguished Professor Rozenfeld
Administrative Assistant for CMRP
Email: sianne_oktaria@uow.edu.au

Senior Professor Peter Metcalfe BSc, PhD
Theme leader: Radiation oncology physics - clinical implementation

Radiotherapy physics: modulated radiotherapy, image guidance, radiological optimisation, dosimetry, MRI applications to radiotherapy treatment and planning

Professor Tomas Kron; PhD

Principal Medical Physicist, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia
Radiotherapy physics, TLD, dosimetry, clinical trials

Senior Professor Michael Lerch BSc, PhD
Theme leader: Radiation instrumentation for dosimetry in radiation therapy, medical imaging and space radiation detectors and applications

Solid state physics, optical and nuclear spectroscopy, medical applications of semiconductor devices, scintillators.

Professor Marco Petasecca PhD
Theme leader: medical electronics for radiation detectors

Semiconductor detectors, nuclear electronics, readout electronics for medical dosimetry

Professor Susanna Guatelli PhD
Theme leader: Monte Carlo simulations on mini-micro- and nanoscale

Monte Carlo simulations for medical physics applications, radiation physics, physics education

Associate Professor Rodney Vickers BSc, PhD

Optical properties of semiconductors, semiconductor physics.

Dr Saree Alnaghy

Radiation detection system for dose imaging for IMRT, VMAT and Brachytherapy, software development for image guidance in radiation therapy

Dr Giordano Biasi PhD

Design, fabrication and characterisation of semiconductor radiation detectors for dosimetry applications; Geant4 Monte Carlo simulations and CAD for semiconductor technology

Dr David Bolst, PhD

Monte Carlo simulations for medical radiation physics applications, with a particular focus on microdosimetry and hadron therapy

Dr Dean Cutajar BSc, MSc, PhD
Radiation detectors and simulations for radiotherapy and diagnostic imaging applications
Brachytherapy

Dr Elette Engels, BSc(Hon), PhD

Microbeam Radiation Therapy, radiobiology, Monte Carlo simulations, CT imaging

Dr Enbang Li PhD

Optoelectronics, Fiber optic dosimetry

Dr Alessandra Malaroda PhD
Nuclear medicine, internal dosimetry, radiobiology

Dr Brad Oborn BSc, MSc, PhD

Monte Carlo Modelling in MRI

Dr Joel Poder, BSc(Hon), MSc, PhD

Dr Yujin Qi PhD

Nuclear medicine, gamma camera instrumentation, molecular imaging, radiation detectors.

Dr George Takacs BSc, PhD

Monte Carlo Simulations of radiation detectors, Infra Red spectroscopy.

Dr Moeava Tehei DEA, PhD
Theme leader: targeted nano-therapy technologies

Biophysics, Nanomedicine, Radiation Biology, Neutron Scattering, Nanophysics, Solid State Physics

Dr Linh Tran MSc, PhD

Semiconductor radiation detectors for dosimetry and microdosimetry in proton and heavy ion therapy and radiation protection in space applications

Dr James Vohradsky, BSc(Hon), MSc, PhD

Hadron therapy, Microdosimetry , Monte Carlo simulations, Neutron dosimetry, experiments

University of Wollongong

Associate Professor Bill Zealey; BSc, PhD:
Medical imaging, astronomy and astrophysics.

Dr Iwan Cornelius; PhD:
Managing Director, Amentum Defence and Security

Dr Phil Simmonds; MSc, PhD:
Nanoscale physics-phenomena.

Dr Michael Weaver; PhD:
Semiconductor detectors, Nuclear electronics and interfacing for medical dosimetry and mechanical design.

Illawarra Cancer Care Centre (ICCC), Wollongong Hospital Honorary Academic Staff

Associate Professor Martin Carolan; BSc, PhD
Chief Physicist, Illawarra Cancer Care Centre, Wollongong Hospital, Wollongong
BNCT, nuclear medicine, Monte Carlo calculations applied to radiation dosimetry, semiconductor dosimetry

Mr Dean Wilkinson; MSc:
Medical Physics Specialist, Illawarra Cancer Care Centre, Wollongong Hospital, Wollongong

St George Cancer Care Centre, St. George Hospital Honorary Academic Staff

Ms Anna Ralston; BSc, MSc:
Director of Medical Physics, St George Cancer Care Centre, Kogarah, Sydney
Radiation Oncology Physics

Clinical Medical Physics

Professor Barry J. Allen; BSc, PhD, DSc;
Conjoint Professor University of Western Sydney
Radiation oncology, medical physics, targeted alpha therapy, BNCT.

Dr Stephanie Corde-Tehei; BSc, PhD:
Deputy Director of Radiation Oncology Medical Physics, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, Sydney, Australia

Professor Martin Ebert; PhD:
Director of Physics Research, Radiation Oncology, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth Australia
Radiotherapy physics, clinical trials outcomes analysis, radiobiology, mathematical modelling.

Dr Nick Hardcastle; PhD:
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia
Radiotherapy physics, dosimetry

Dr Lois Holloway; PhD:
Research Physicist, Liverpool Hospital, Department of Medical Physics
Radiobiology modelling, radiation therapy, IMRT.

Dr Gary Liney; PhD:
Senior Research Physicist, Ingham Institute for Medical Research & Liverpool Cancer Therapy Centre, Liverpool, Sydney, Australia
MRI in Radiotherapy & MRI-Linac

Joel Poder, BMRP(Hon), M.Sc., PhD

Brachytherapy, EBRT on a linac, clinical dosimetry, MOSkin dosimetry

Dr Amy Walker; PhD:
Research & Development Medical Physicist, Liverpool & Macarthur Cancer Therapy Centres and the Ingham Institute
Radiation Therapy, MRI applications in radiotherapy, Adaptive radiotherapy, Clinical translation

Professor Steve Meikle; PhD:
Brain and Mind Research Institute, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
PET, SPECT, dynamic imaging, PET isotope production

Associate Professor Yang Wang; PhD:
Director of Medical Physics, ROC - Radiation Oncology Institute, NSW
Radiation dosimetry, film dosimetry, IMRT, planning

Clinical Radiation Oncology Physicians

Professor Michael Jackson; MD:
Director of Radiation Oncology, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, Sydney, Australia
Radiation Oncology, Brachytherapy, Proton Therapy, Hypothermia

Professor Daniel Moses; MD
Director of Medical Imaging, Northern Hospital Network South Eastern Sydney Local Health District, Randwick, Sydney

Professor Monica Rossleigh; MD:
Director, Nuclear Medicine Department, Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, Australia
Medical Imaging, SPECT, Gamma Camera

Industry

Professor Richard Banati; PhD:
Distinguished Research Fellow, ANSTO

Dr Peter Bradley; BE(Elec-1st class), ME (Biomed), PhD:
Ultra low power communications & Biomedical Systems Engineering Consultant, Sydney, Australia.
Microdosimetry, semiconductor dosimetry, wireless medical devices

Professor David Cohen; BSc, PhD:
Chief Research Scientist, ANSTO
Microprobe and synchrotron radiation.

Associate Professor Jason Dowling; PhD:
Senior Research Scientist & Project Leader (Clinical Imaging), CSIRO

Professor Marie-Claude Gregoire; PhD:
Leader, Human Health, ANSTO

Associate Professor Greg Kaplan; MSc, PhD:
Ingham Institute for Applied Medical Research, Liverpool NSW, Australia
Hadron therapy, dosimetry, radiobiology.

Dr Dale Prokopovich: PhD:
ANSTO

Dr Mark Reinhard; BSc, PhD;
ANSTO;
Radiation damage in silicon detectors, microdosimetry.

Dr Mitra Safavi-Naeini: BSc, MSc, PhD:
Imaging Quantification Research Leader, Human Health, ANSTO
PET instrumentation, Image reconstruction

Professor James Tickner: BSc, PhD:
CSIRO
Monte Carlo simulations, Radiation Detectors Instrumentation, Homeland security

Professor Chris Beltran, PhD

Professor Medical Physics
Chair Division of Medical Physics
Director Particle Therapy Technical Operations
Consultant Department of Radiation Oncology, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida USA

Particle therapy dosimetry, microdosimetry, radiobiology , accelerator physics

Professor Gustavo Garcia, PhD

Instituto de Matemáticas y Física Fundamental. CSIC, Madrid, Spain
Radiation damage in molecules, Monte Carlo simulations, nanodosimetry

Professor Alex Gektin: MSc, PhD, DSc

Institute for Scintillator Materials and AMCRYS-H, Ukraine;
Scintillator materials and scintillator radiation detectors

Professor Yigal Horowitz: BSc, PhD:

Ben Gurion University
Theory of TLD, nanodosimetry with TLD

Professor Brian Hutton: BSc, PhD:
UCL, UK
Nuclear Medicine, medical imaging and image reconstruction.

Professor Wolfgang Tome: BSc, PhD:

Professor of Radiation Oncology, Professor of Neurology, Albert Einstein Medical College, New York, USA;
Bioeffects of focused ultrasound and photodynamic therapy; Use of functional MR to define and characterise high-risk volumes for risk adaptive radiotherapy; Use of functional MR imaging to assess treatment response of tumours to therapy; Mitigation of normal tissue radiation injury using pharmacological interventions and conformal avoidance techniques; Use of nonlinear systems theory to predict and eventually control (ie stabilise) breathing; Development of advanced dosimetry systems for spot scanning proton dosimetry.

Associate Professor Jeannie Wong, MSC, PhD

Department of Biomedical Imaging, Faculty of Medicine University of Malaya, Malaysia

Peter Ihnat; BE (Elec), BSc (Phys):

Electronics, single-chip micros, programming, music, astronomy and anything technical.

Terry Braddock;

Radiation detectors for teaching and radiation instrumentation

Title	First Name	Last Name	Course Name	Thesis Title
Mr	Abass	Khochaiche	Master of Philosophy - EIS	Lanthanum Manganite nanoparticles combined with Methotrexate for radiation dose enhancement and theranostic applications
Mr	Michael	Lawson	Master of Philosophy - EIS	Whole body CT dose for paediatric patients
Dr	Rashmi	Nigam	Master of Philosophy - EIS	Streamlining auto-contouring of multiple bone metastasis from lump primary: Investigating different auto-segmentation techniques
Miss	Alice	O'Keefe	Master of Research - EIS	Synthesis and Characterisation of Barium-Doped Nanoparticles of LaxMn03.
Mr	Raed	Althobaiti	Doctor of Philosophy	Characterization and development of enhanced radiation dosimetry using Graphene-analogue materials for radiotherapy applications
Mr	Taleb	Alwadi	Doctor of Philosophy	Establishment of Diagnostic Reference Levels for Adult Computed Tomography (CT) Examinations Performed in Australia
Mr	James	Archer	Doctor of Philosophy	Developing High Spatial-Resolution Fibre-Optic Dosimeter
Mr	Owen	Brace	Doctor of Philosophy	Advanced In-Vivo Dose Verification with Silicon Diode Array and EPID Co-Registration
Miss	Taylah	Brennen	Doctor of Philosophy	3D-Brachyview
Mr	Jarryd	Buckley	Doctor of Philosophy	Patient Rotation in MRI-Guided Radiation Therapy: Development of Enabling Technology
Ms	Meng	Cai	Doctor of Philosophy	Iterative cone-beam CT reconstruction
Miss	Madeline	Carr	Doctor of Philosophy	Treatment Response Monitoring and Potential Dose Boosting Using MRI Scan Information
Mr	Andrew	Chacon	Doctor of Philosophy	Dose Quantification and Enhancements for Particle Therapy
Miss	Emily	Debrot	Doctor of Philosophy	Characterisation of the Dose Magnifying Glass for Heavy Ion Therapy Quality Assurance
Mr	Justin	Delaney	Doctor of Philosophy	Investigating the physics of gamma-ray induced nuclear reactions
Mr	Shaun	Delpiano	Doctor of Philosophy	Gamma Activation Analysis for on-line Mineral Sorting Applications
Miss	Elette	Engels	Doctor of Philosophy	Lanthanide nanoparticles for image guided multimodal therapies
Mr	Sijan	Gautam	Doctor of Philosophy	Development of a Portable Detector for the Measurement of Glomerular Filtration Rate Using Radionuclides
Mr		Heranudin	Doctor of Philosophy	Development of 4πβ (Plastic Scintillator) - 4πγ Detection System for Radionuclide Standardization
Mr	Yunfei	Hu	Doctor of Philosophy	Develop Motion Management Techniques for Stereotactic Ablative Radiotherapy Treatments on TomoTherapy
Miss	Elisa	Jager	Doctor of Philosophy	Climate Variability in the Murray-Darling Basin
Mr	Benjamin	James	Doctor of Philosophy	Quality Assurance Dosimetry in Particle Therapy
Mr	Matthew	Jones	Doctor of Philosophy	Investigation into the Effects of Land Clearing and Changing Landscapes on Rainfall Patterns in Australia
Mr	Albert	Le	Doctor of Philosophy	Low Dose Rate Brachytherapy for Complex Treatment Deliveries
Mr	Mitchell	Lielkajis	Doctor of Philosophy	Clinical Dosimetry of Alpha DaRT
Mr	Levi	Madden	Doctor of Philosophy	Temporal Separation of Scintillation and Cerenkov Radiation Produced by Fiber Optic Dosimeters in Pulsed Megavoltage Photon Beams
Mr	Dominic	Maes	Doctor of Philosophy	Optimization of Pencil beam...
Mr	Luis	Munoz	Doctor of Philosophy	Clinical Implementation of Silicon Monolithic Detectors for Small Field Dosimetry
Miss	Timia	Osman	Doctor of Philosophy	Localization Accuracy of PET-CT Defined Target Volumes under Respiratory Motion for Radiation Therapy
Mr	Jason	Paino	Doctor of Philosophy	Development and Experimental Validation of a Monte Carlo Based Treatment Planning System for Microbeam Radiation Therapy
Mr	Vladimir	Pan	Doctor of Philosophy	Radiobiological Effectiveness of Charged Particle Therapeutic Beams: Experimental Derivation and Application for Treatment Optimization
Miss	Elizabeth	Patterson	Doctor of Philosophy	Skin Dose Enhancement from an Inline MRI-Linac: Dosimetry with MOSkin and Dose Magnifying Glass
Miss	Stefania	Peracchi	Doctor of Philosophy	Silicon on insulator microdosimetry in aviation and space. Development of innovative detector for radiation protection.
Ms	Jessie	Posar	Doctor of Philosophy	Characterisation of Organic Electronic Components for Dosimetry in Radiotherapy
Mr	Robert	Raposio	Doctor of Philosophy	Porosas Target for MO-99 Production
Miss	Natalia	Roberts	Doctor of Philosophy	Assessing MRI-linac based Radiotherapy Uncertainties
Mr	Lewis	Robertson	Doctor of Philosophy	Enhanced methods of Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance for Explosives and Narcotics
Mr	Harley	Rutherford	Doctor of Philosophy	Development of a Novel Dose Quantification Method for Heavy Ion Radiotherapy Using In-Beam Positron Emission Tomography Imaging
Miss	Fang-Yi	Su	Doctor of Philosophy	Radiation Detector For Quality Assurance of the Alpha DART (Diffusion Alpha-emitters Radiation Therapy) Technology
Ms	Madiha	Tai	Doctor of Philosophy	Ion Chamber Response in Magnetic Field Coupled with Electric Field for Radiotherapy Application
Mr	Nathan	Thorpe	Doctor of Philosophy	Kilovolt Range Characterisation and Diagnostic Applications of the MOSkin Dosimeter
Mr	Michael	Valceski	Doctor of Philosophy	'Enhancement of Radiation Therapies Using High-Z Nanoparticles and Drugs'
Ms	Sarah	Vogel	Doctor of Philosophy	Investigation into the Use of Lanthanide Metal Oxide Nanoparticles for the Theranostic Treatment of Cancer
Mr	James	Vohradsky	Doctor of Philosophy	The Development of New Generation Microdosimetry for Quality Assurance in Hadron Therapy and BNCT
Mr	Jack	Webster	Doctor of Philosophy	Development of a Real-Time Toxic Elements Analyser using X-ray Fluorescence
Miss	Melek	Zarifi	Doctor of Philosophy	Real Time Dosimetry of Proton Therapeutic Beam Using Prompt Gamma
Mrs	Ramaq	Al-Qadhi	Doctor of Philosophy (Integrated)	In-Vivo Skin Diode Dosimetry For In-Vivo High Dose Rate Prostate Brachytherapy
Mrs	Taghreed	Al-sudani	Doctor of Philosophy (Integrated)	Skin verification in head and neck cancer with eXaSkin bolus and VMAT
Mr	Samer	Bakr	Doctor of Philosophy (Integrated)	Development of Simulation Tools for Micro and Nano-Dosimetry
Ms	Carolyn	Hollis	Doctor of Philosophy (Integrated)	Multimodal Therapy: A Combination of Oncothermia, Microbeam Radiation Therapy and Nano Therapy
Mr	Muhammad	Salman	Doctor of Philosophy (Integrated)	Development of In Vivo Real Time Innovative Radiation Dosimetry for Diagnostic Radiology (CT and Fluoroscopy)
Mr	Mohammed	Al Towairqi	Doctor of Philosophy	Development of Magic Scintillating Plastic Fibre-Optic System (MSPFOS) for Real-time Dosimetry HDR Brachytherapy
Mr	Sultan	Alhujaili	Doctor of Philosophy	Pre-treatment and in-vivo dosimetric verification in Intensity Modulated Arc Therapy using silicon detectors
Mrs	Sarah	Alnaghy	Doctor of Philosophy	High Resolution Radiation Dosimetry in an MRI-Linac Using Novel Silicon Array Detectors
Miss	Lauren	Bell	Doctor of Philosophy	Reducing Tumour Volume Uncertainty for the Benefit of Radiation Therapy Cancer Patients
Mr	Matthew	Cameron	Doctor of Philosophy	Microbeam Radiation Therapy Development of Instrumentation and Software Tools for Quality Assurance
Mr	Trent	Causer	Doctor of Philosophy	Study of Dosimetry and Magnetic Fields From MRI Linac's
Mr	Lachlan	Chartier	Doctor of Philosophy	Development of a Solid State Quality Assurance System for Scanning Beams in Proton and Heavy Ion Therapy
Mr	Andrew	Dipuglia	Doctor of Philosophy	Development of a silicon-on-diamond dosimeter for Microbeam Radiation Therapy
Mr	Mitchell	Duncan	Doctor of Philosophy	High Spatial Resolution Silicon Detectors for Dosimetry in Moving Target Radiotherapy
Mr	Aaron	Merchant	Doctor of Philosophy	Development & characterisation of a novel silicon strip detector & magic plate array of silicon detectors for use in quality assurance of hadron beam radiotherapy
Mr	Matthew	Newall	Doctor of Philosophy	Innovative silicon detector for 3D construction of Dose in External beam radiotherapy
Mr	Joel	Poder	Doctor of Philosophy	Development and commissioning of various solid state detectors and dedicated phantoms for patient specific HDR brachytherapy QA
Mr	Matt	Westlake	Doctor of Philosophy	Characterisation of Lanthanum Manganite Nanoparticles Doped with Silver for use in Hyperthermic Treatment