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AUCAOS 2025
The next Australasian Community for Advanced Organic Semiconductors Symposium is to take place in Tweed Heads, New South Wales, Australia from Wednesday 26th to Friday 28th November 2025. It will bring together the organic semiconductor research community of Australia and New Zealand, and will be an exciting forum for discussing the latest developments in computation…
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Professor Paul Burn to step down as Chair of AUCAOS. Professor Chris McNeil and Associate Professor Paul Shaw to Co-Chair
Professor Paul Burn is stepping down as Chair of AUCAOS. The AUCAOS Committee would like to express their sincere gratitude to Paul for his leadership in establishing AUCAOS and for his dedicated service as Chair over the last eight years, which included organising the highly successful annual symposium of the community. We are pleased to…
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AUCAOS 2024 Symposium Highlights
The sixth annual AUCAOS symposium was held at Tweed Heads, New South Wales, from Wednesday 27th to Friday 29th December 2024. There were 29 excellent talks from our Keynote Speakers (Professor Furong Zhu and Doctor Martin Peeks), Group leaders, early career researchers (ECRs), PhD, Honours, and Master’s students. The prestigious best presentation awards were presented…
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Research by AUCAOS members highlighted in Royal Society of Chemistry Showcase
The following papers have been selected for inclusion in the Showcasing Physical Chemistry research in Australia and New Zealand themed collection. AUCAOS member authors are in bold. Luminescence-based detection and identification of illicit drugs M. Chen, P. L. Burn and P. E. Shaw Understanding specific ion effects and the Hofmeister series Kasimir P. Gregory, Gareth…
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Discovery Early Career Researcher Awards 2025 round 1
Congratulations to the following AUCAOS Group members who have been awarded a DECRA (Discovery Early Career Researcher Award) from the Australian Research Council: Investigator(s) Summary Dr Mile Gao Light can strongly couple with organic semiconductor molecules and materials to form polaritons at room temperature that can immensely modify excited energy states and exhibit nonlinear optical…
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AUCAOS members awarded research funding by Australian Research Council (ARC Future Fellowships 2024 round 1)
Congratulations to the following AUCAOS members who have been awarded Future Fellowships funding by the Australian Research Council: Investigator(s) Summary Associate Professor Girish Lakhwani Light can strongly couple with organic semiconductor molecules and materials to form polaritons at room temperature that can immensely modify excited energy states and exhibit nonlinear optical properties. This project aims…
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AUCAOS 2023 Symposium Highlights
The fifth Annual AUCAOS symposium was held at Tweed Heads, New South Wales, from Wednesday 29th November to Friday 1st December 2023. There were 41 excellent talks from our Keynote Speakers (Professors Helen Huang and Rona Chandrawati), Group leaders, early career researchers (ECRs), PhD, Honours, and Master’s students. The best presentation awards were presented to…
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2024 Australia-NZ Ultrafast Spectroscopy Meeting
AUCAOS members Prof Tim Schmidt (UNSW) and A/Prof Girish Lakhwani (The University of Sydney) are co-chairing the 2024 Australia-NZ Ultrafast Spectroscopy Meeting. When: Thu, 15 Feb 2024 10:00 AM – Fri, 16 Feb 2024 5:00 PM (Australian Eastern Daylight Time) Location: Law Building Annex Seminar Room 105, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, Australia. Abstracts:…
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Marsden Funding Success: Hydrogen generation with sustainable resources – a combined molecular, computational and engineering approach
Congratulations to Keith Gordon (PI) and James Crowley (AI) on being awarded $941,000 by the Marsden Fund for their three-year project “Hydrogen generation with sustainable resources – a combined molecular, computational and engineering approach“. Also involved in the project are researchers from Friedrich Schiller University, Jena (Dr S Kupfer, Dr GE Shillito and Prof. W…
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Associate Professor Matthew Griffith wins Royal Australian Chemical Institute award
Congratulations to AUCAOS member Associate Professor Matthew Griffith who has been awarded the 2023 David Sangster Polymer Science and Technology Achievement Award from the The Royal Australian Chemical Institute.