ProfessorSimon Ringer

Professor Ringer is currently looking to recruit high quality individuals aspiring to undertake research at the Honours/Final year project level, summer interns, Master and Ph.D. students, and postdoctoral researchers. A range of projects are available that span fundamental to industry-based, and across structural materials and functional materials.

Hot topics emerging just now for which opportunities exist include:

• Atomic-scale materials design (quantum nanomaterials, nanocomposites, alloys and more)
• Functionalised photovoltaic surfaces
• Additive manufacturing
• New frontiers in atom probe microscopy
• New frontiers in transmission electron microscopy

Working in Professor Ringer's research team places you in the midst of a wonderful institutional, national and international network. Former team members are now working in companies all over the world from large multinational corporations, the defence industry, state and federal governments, and technology start-up ventures. Other members have gone on to academic roles or are conducting further research at places such as Texas A&M University, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, The University of Oxford, Central South University, Deakin University, Curtin University, and the Max Plank Institute for Iron and Steel.

You may choose to focus on challenges around structural materials, or functional materials. Most of the group are either trying to understand the fundamental origins of materials behaviour, or striving to develop materials with new properties. We need certain key 'tools' that allow us to be successful in this very challenging research. These tools include atom probe microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, density functional theory, and various other computational modelling techniques. Indeed, very often, the team need to create methodological innovations in imaging and characterisation in order to gain fresh insights into how materials work. Therefore, some members of the team focus on advanced techniques in microscopy and microanalysis.

Please look carefully at the University of Sydney's scholarships page if this sounds interesting for you.