Our Expertise
The MCFP is more than a collection of infrastructure and labs. We are an award-winning and internationally recognised team of experts in materials characterisation and fabrication, that leverage these technologies to enable cutting-edge research, with wide-reaching societal impacts. Meet our team.
Meet the Team
Elena Taran
Head, Materials Characterisation & Fabrication Platform
Elena is an accomplished leader with a wealth of experience in navigating the complexities of research infrastructure and fostering collaborative, innovative environments. Elena is an Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) specialist, leveraging this powerful technique to enable and advance research in nanotechnology and materials science.
Anders Barlow
Academic Specialist - Electron and Ion Microscopy
Anders leads the Electron and Ion Microscopy and Vibrational Spectroscopy nodes of the MCFP. He is a materials and surface analysis specialist who can help you with all manner of identification and characterisation of hard and soft materials.
Paul Brannon
Platform Support Officer - Advanced Fluorescence Imaging
Paul leads the Advanced Fluorescence Imaging node of the MCFP and can assist with super-resolution imaging of a wide range samples, including tissues, live cells, and nanoparticles.
Darryl Johnson
Academic Specialist - Cytometry
Darryl leads the Cytometry node of the MCFP with expertise in mass and flow cytometry, and confocal microscopy. He has a background in molecular biology, biochemistry and immunology, and can help you with experimental design, preparation, acquisition, and interpretation.
Dan Smith
Senior Nanofabrication Engineer
Dan leads the nanofabrication capability for the MCFP. Situated in the heart of ANFF-Vic at the Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication (MCN), Dan has expertise across the most extensive fabrication capability in Melbourne, and can help you from design to device realisation.
Raveen Wijesuriya
Platform Support Officer - X-ray Characterisation
Raveen leads the X-ray Characterisation node of the MCFP, including X-ray diffraction (XRD) and fluorescence (XRF) and all sample preparation required including milling and pellet forming. He will guide you from start to finish of XRD analysis.
Tian Zheng
Academic Specialist - Nanomaterials Characterisation
Tian leads the nanomaterials characterisation (NMC) node of the MCFP. She can provide insight into all modes of modern atomic force microscopy measurements on a range of samples from nanomaterials to biological structures.
Ray Dagastine
Platform Academic Champion
Ray Dagastine is a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Academic Champion of the Materials Characterisation and Fabrication Platform.
George Franks
Professor
George Franks is a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and has over two decades of research experience in the ceramics and minerals processing fields.
Steering Committee
Prof. Raymond Dagastine (Chair) | Dept. Chemical Engineering | FEIT |
Dept. Chemical Engineering | FEIT | |
Dept. Infrastructure Engineering | FEIT | |
School of Physics | Science | |
Melbourne Dental School | MDHS | |
School of Historical and Philosophical Studies | Arts | |
School of Physics | Science | |
Dept. Chemical Engineering, FEIT | |
Dept. Electrical and Electronic Engineering | FEIT | |
Platform Manager | MCFP |
Advisory Group
Prof. Ann Roberts (Chair) | School of Physics | Science |
Dept. Chemical Engineering | FEIT | |
| School of Chemistry | Science | |
| School of Anatomy and Physiology | MDHS | |
| Dept. Chemical Engineering | FEIT | |
| Dept. Biomedical Engineering | FEIT | |
| Dept. Biomedical Engineering | FEIT | |
| CSL | |
| Dept. Chemical Engineering | FEIT | |
| Platform Manager | MCFP |