Selected Grants Support  

2025 Industry collaboration project (Lead CI)

2025 CRC SAAFE Kickstart Project (CI)

2025 MCR Research Capabilities Development Initiative (Lead CI)

2025 Faculty of Science Seed Funding (Lead CI)

2024 Collaboration Project with University of Melbourne (UoM) (Lead CI)
2023 Collaboration Project with UoM (Lead CI)
2023 NHMRC Emerging Leadership Level 1 Fellowship (Highest ranking) (Lead CI)
2023 Faculty of Science Seed Funding (Lead CI)
2023 The iCare Grant, Dust Diseases Board (co CI)
2022 Chancellor's Research Fellowship (Lead CI) 
2021 CRB Development Funds (Lead CI)
2020 Innovative Manufacturing Cooperative Research Centre Fund (co CI)
2019 Vice Chancellor’s Research Student Conference Fund (Lead CI)

Prizes, Honours and Awards

2025    Finalist of 2025 Women of Colour in STEM Awards

2025    Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for Research Excellence (Early Career Research Excellence Award)

2024    NSW Premier's Prizes for Science & Engineering (Early Career Researcher of the Year-Physical Sciences)
2024    Australian Health and Medical Research Awards - Discovery Award Highly Recommended
2024    Finalist of UTS Vice-Chancellor’s Awards - 2023 Early Career Research Excellence Award, UTS

2024    Shortlisted for L'Oréal-UNESCO Australia & New Zealand for Women in Science Fellowship

2024    Selected for the 2024 Franklin Women Inclusive Leadership Mentoring Program

2023    NHMRC 2023 Research Excellence Awards - NHMRC Bernie Banton Investigator Grant Award (recognising the highest-ranked applicant in 2023 Investigator Grants Emerging Leadership Scheme)
2023    Dean's Award for Science & Collaboration, UTS
2023    MAPS Awards for Research Excellence - Early Career Researchers of the Year, UTS
2023    Commercialisation Award, UTS
2021    Dean's Awards 2021, Highly Commended 'External Impact', UTS
2019    UTS Vice Chancellor’s Research Student Conference Fund
2016    UTS Top-Up Scholarship
2015    Outstanding Master’s Thesis
2014    The Graduate National Scholarship (highest-ranked applicant)

2014    Special Recognition Award (highest-ranked applicant)

2014    Scholarship of Wu Da Guan (highest-ranked applicant)
2013    The Excellent Graduate Student
2012    The Excellent Bachelor’s Thesis / Municipal Merit Student
2010    Winning Prize of the Fourth Mathematical Modelling / The Second-Grade Scholarship (awarded three times)

Self-motivated Ph.D. in material chemistry and bio-optics with 10 years of laboratory research experience, specialising in rare earth nanomaterials, fluorescence spectroscopy, optical microscope, surface modification, DNA conjugation, nano-biosensor development and point-of-care detection.

Research Interests
- Lanthanides photonics;
- Single nanoparticle spectroscopy;
- Nanomaterials.
- Point-of-Care diagnostics
- Test strip
- Polymer synthesis

Skills
Rear earth doped nanocrystal;
Size and morphology control;
Core-multi-shell nano-sphere/rod
Multi-function design
Laser scanning confocal microscope;
Super-resolution structured illumination microscope;
Widefield imaging microscope;
Time-resolved spectrometry and imaging;
Fluorescence spectrometry;
Total internal reflection fluorescent microscope
Nanoparticles surface modification;
DNA conjugation;
COVID antigen and RNA tests
Nano-biosensor materials
Polymer synthesis
Cell culture
Visiting groups:
QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, the University of Queensland, Brisbane
Fluorescence Imaging Group (FIG), Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain;
Institut de Recherche de Chimie Paris, Chimie ParisTech-CNRS, Paris, France;
Debye Institute for NanoMaterials Science, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands;
Van’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands;
The Group of Biophysics and Complex, The University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.
UTS-SUStech Joint Research Centre for Biomedical Materials & Devices, Shenzhen, China;
Cluster for Advanced Macromolecular Design (CAMD), School of Chemistry, University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney). et al.