Past Biomagnetics Students

PhD Graduates

Paul Allen

Graduated 2000
Thesis title: Ferritin: new perspectives on a semi-disordered nanoscale antiferromagnet

Joan Connolly

Graduated 2003 (with distinction)
Thesis title: Magnetic nanoparticles for biomedical applications

Heath Pardoe

Graduated 2005
Thesis title: In vivo measurement and imaging of ferrimagnetic particle concentrations in biological tissues

Michael Zalich

Fulbright Scholar
Graduated 2005
Thesis title: Physical properties of magnetic macromolecule-metal and macromolecule-metal oxide nanoparticles

Nicole Gorham

Graduated 2005
Thesis title: The nature and physical origin of magnetic energy barrier distributions in semi-disordered nanoparticles

Paul Clark

Graduated 2005 (with distinction)
Thesis title: Non-invasive measurement and imaging of liver iron concentrations using proton magnetic resonance

Beau Pontré

Graduated 2006 (with distinction)
Thesis title: Measurement, modelling and potential clinical applications of spatial variations in magnetic resonance proton transverse relaxation rates in iron-loaded liver and heart tissue.

Eliza Bovell

Graduated 2007
Thesis title: Measurement of iron oxide nanoparticulate size and clustering behaviour in iron loaded rodent tissues using novel small angle synchrotron x-ray scattering techniques.

Honours Graduates

Ben Peden

Completed 1996
Thesis: The properties and surface magnetic behaviour of ferritin cores

Joan Connolly

Completed 1998
Thesis: Magnetic separation of the inorganic iron oxides, ferrihydrite and goethite, and iron release from these oxides with iron chelators

Eliza Bovell

Completed 1999
Thesis: Iron overload: the form of iron oxide deposits in hypotransferrinaemic mice

Nicole Gorham

Completed 1999
Thesis: Magnetic Behaviour of Reconstituted Ferritins

Matthew Tilbrook

Completed 2000
Thesis: Mössbauer and magnetisation measurements of FePt nanoparticles for
magnetic recording media

Jody Chu

Completed 2001
Thesis: Conversion electron Mössbauer spectroscopy: possible applications to the study of iron in meteorite specimens.

Beau Pontré

Completed 2001
Thesis: Quantification of oxygen saturation in blood using magnetic resonance imaging

Brenda Au

Completed 2001
Thesis: The occurrence and motility of magnetotactic bacteria in Perth and the surrounding regions.

David Murray

Completed 2002
Thesis: Magnetic energy barrier distributions in mammalian liver tissue

Paul Poliwka

Completed 2002
Thesis: Magnetic properties of magnetotactic bacteria

Sara Hackett

Completed 2003
Thesis: THALES: an instrument to measure the magnetophoretic mobility of microscopic particles

Mark Haselden

Completed 2004
Thesis: Measuring splenic proton transverse relaxation rate

Annette Tyler

Completed 2005
Thesis: Development of a method for calibrating Thales, an instrument for measuring the low field magnetophoretic mobility of microscopic objects

Anne Dinh

Completed 2005
Thesis: Effect of changes in macroscopic spatial variation of iron concentration on proton relaxation rate

Jason Heeris

Completed 2005
Thesis: The use of magnetometry techniques to characterise the size distribution of magnetic nanoparticles

Past Group Photos