Group Leader

Dr Michael P Nielsen

Postdoctoral Researchers

Dr Rishabh Mishra

Dr Alex Baldacchino

PhD and Masters Students

  • Martin Zlatinov

  • Irfan Khan

  • Syed Hamad Ullah Shah

  • Jamie Harrison (co-supervised with Ned Ekins-Daukes)

  • Olivia Bowen (co-supervised with Rong Deng)

  • Zixi Wu (co-supervised with Murad Tayebjee)

  • Tuan Tran (co-supervised with Tim Schmidt)

Undergraduate Students

  • Valerii Radchenkov (reserach assistant)

  • Sicheng Wu (thesis student)

  • Nathanael Winston Widjaya (Taste of Research)

  • Yuhan Zhou (thesis student)

  • Huajian Wu (thesis student)

  • WenYuan LinSchneider (thesis student)

  • Shiru Fang (thesis student)

  • Aiden Leong (thesis student)

  • Andrea Demarchi (thesis student)

Past Group Members (postdocs)

  • Dr Shimul Kati Nath: Then in Electrical Engineering UNSW

Past Group Members (HDRs)

  • Damon De Clercq (2025, PhD): Then a postdoc at EPFL

  • Muhammad Hasnan Sazzad (2025, PhD): Then a postdoc at UNSW

  • Abhinav Sharma (2023, PhD): Then a postdoc at LMU

  • Alexander Baldacchino (2023, PhD): Then a postdoc for OMEGA Silicon

  • Muhammad Hanif (2023, PhD): Founding Engineering at Aquila Earth

  • Lamees Yaqoob Mubarak Al Kiyumi (2023, MPhil): Then a PhD candidate at UNSW

  • Parisa Hosseinabadi (2023, PhD): Then at Finisar Corporation

  • Milos Dubajic (2022, PhD): Then a Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Cambridge

Past Group Members (Undergraduate)

  • Sean Lewis (2025, Honours)

  • Wildred Han (2025, Honours)

  • Alfie Jones (2023, Taste of Research Undergraduate)

  • Ben Tran (2023, Honours)

Join us!

We’re always open to new members joining the lab, both domestic and international candidates. There are also collaboration opportunities across a range of topics. Please get in touch and see if there is an opportunity that is the right fit for you.

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