Igor Aharonovich
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Quantum Nanophotonics Group Leader, OPTICA & SPIE Fellow, Professor @UTS . Science, Travel and Scubadiving! co-founder ; views my own
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Join us in
#Sydney
for the 2024 Workshop on
#Boron
#Nitride
to be held "at home
@UTS_Science
" ! Cubic and Hexagonal, fundamental science, applications,
#polaritons
,
#photonics
#quantum
,
#growth
#devices
and much more!
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I am very thrilled to receive this recognition! Thanks to all my mentors, students and colleagues, and thanks to
@ACSPhotonics
for this honour! grateful to friends and the team
@TMOS_ARC
@DNeshev
@UTS_Science
@UTSEngage
We’re pleased to announce the winner of the 2023 ACS Photonics Young Innovator Award: Professor Igor Aharonovich, aka
@igordownunder
. Congratulations! Find out more about his current research and this award in our recent interview:
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I really don't understand PIs that don't allow their senior PhDs or Postdocs to be corresponding authors, if they actually did majority of the work and/or supervised the project on the ground. this is career development 101!
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Very honoured to be elected as a
#fellow
of the
@OpticalSociety
! Thank you to my nominator (
@DNeshev
), supporters, students, postdocts, mentors and colleagues! Wouldn’t have happened without you.
#OSAfellow
#OSA
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#PhD
students - don't wait till your supervisor asks you to write a paper. Summarise the figures and actively ask the supervisor how this can become a paper.
#phdchat
@EMCRForum
#AcademicTwitter
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Thank you to the
@KavliFoundation
@Materials_MRS
for this recognition🙏😊😊😊. Hope to meet as many of you as possible next week during the Lightning talks at the 2020 virtual meeting
@UTS_Science
@MetaOptics
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What is the most beautiful
#University
campus in the world? (beauty not defined - maybe architecture, location, design, features, history etc). fire away. if u can attach a pic thats a bonus!
#AcademicChatter
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OMG! i just read a paper that literally repeats one to one our experiments and results, then claims their methodology is different and produces better results (without showing evidence ofcourse), decorated with heaps DFT and published in a better journal! 😱😱😱
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The Peer Review: I often revisit the papers i reviewed criticially. In most cases (~ 8/10), the authors just publish same thing in a lower IF journal, without addressing any of the comments. I wonder, why do we bother? why just not click YES/NO and move on?
#AcademicTwitter
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Finally arrived! 😃😃😃🎉🎉🎉 Thank you
@ACSPhotonics
@SPIEtweets
for this recognition.
@TMOS_ARC
@UTS_Science
@UTSEngage
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Extremely excited to join the The Royal Society of NSW as a fellow member
@royalsocnsw
. Looking forward to contribute to the society activities and promote science in our community.
@UTSEngage
@UTS_Science
@TMOS_ARC
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Finally!!! Years in the making, countless failed attempts and device geometries - but we bring you the first Room Temperature Electroluminescence from emitters in
#hBN
!!!
@TMOS_ARC
@UTS_Science
collaboration with
#Postech
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Together with
@CarloBradac
we are launching – The Secrets to Scientific Publishing. DM/email for more details! The mission is to help ECRs/EMCRs around the world to boost their scientific outputs.
#publishing
#academic
#emcr
@EMCRForum
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This year going to be either very happy or very very sad!
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Very excited to share the new work on identification of
#quantum
emitters in
#hBN
! (spoiler - its carbon related!) . A collaborative effort with many groups around the world, lead by the talented PhD student Noah Mendelson
@UTS_Science
@MetaOptics
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when I tell students to read one paper a day during their PhD, many giggle... but reading is so important - not only to broaden horizons and get ideas, but also be inspired by others.
#PhDchat
#AcademicTwitter
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"Our journal doesnt publish incremental research, unless of course, you are from Harvard in which case we will send it to the reviewer of your choice".
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@professor_dave
you really misleading people with your tweet. u must provide context. its in a coservative country, with Royals, and the code is ONLY for opening ceremony. its their tradition, and its your duty to respect it.
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Now that news sank in a little – super excited to be awarded the
#FT22
! All credit goes to the amazing research group at
@UTS_Science
@TMOS_ARC
that delives an awesome research into
#hBN
! watch this space! more to come.... (photo bit outdated - this years
#BBQ
is coming...)
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Today we celebrated the submission of the 100th paper that was lead from our group, since we started back in 2013! what a journey and an amazing team at
@UTS_Science
@sejeong85
@Xuzaiquan
(why no one else is on twitter??)
#diamond
#hbn
#quantum
#nanophotonics
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These are one of the best preliminary results I've seen in a long time! fab'd by the talented 3rd year student, Otto
@UTS_Science
#quantum
#photonics
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we are on the cover of
@ACSPhotonics
!!!🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳
@MetaOptics
Congrats Mehran and the team! Paper is describing generation of spin qubits in
#hBN
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Little celebration! Our original work on
#quantum
emitters in
#hBN
reached 1000 citations 🥳🥳🥳🥳🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 Massive congratulations to
@ToanTrongTran86
who came up with the idea, and spearheaded this work! so a Little 🧵about this all....
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Super excited to be one of the finalists of the 2021 Rising Stars of Light
@LightSciAppl
alongside awesome cohort of
#EMCRs
!
@TMOS_ARC
,
#photonics
,
#hBN
. Special thanks to my mentors and to the awesome team
@UTS_Science
and our collaborators.
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Honoured to be one of the recipients of the 2019 AAPPS - APCTP CN Yang award. Thank you my family, team, collaborators, and mentors – it wouldn’t have been possible without you! . Prof CN Yang is pioneer of particle Physics and received
@NobelPrize
in 1957.
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Finally online! great work led by
@SJUWhite
and
@tyang20201
on electrical control of
#quantum
emitters in
#hBN
!
@LightSciAppl
@TMOS_ARC
@UTS_Science
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🥳🥳🥳 finally online! Awesome collaboration with JP Tetienne and team!
#hBN
#quantum
#microscopy
@UTSResearch
@UTS_Science
@RMIT
will post separate thread about the rejection trail and history of the ms.
Quantum microscopy with van der Waals heterostructures
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Join to reject my future articles! Fun job!
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its really nice to review research proposals from overseas. sharp, short, clear small goals and almost always zero hype (excluding US proposals that by now should have delivered a quantum computer on the moon with zero energy consumption). learning a lot!
#AcademicChatter
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Fresh from the lab - the first Rabi oscillations measured in our group. We can finally say we are doing "real"
#quantum
science down here! collected by
@SJUWhite
#photonics
#beauty
!
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5(!) reviewers and all recomended acceptance 😱 where is my lottery ticket? + entertaining comment: "...this is one of the manuscripts with the level significantly above the average of the papers in quantum nanophotonics published in...."😃😃😃 Thank you rev
#1
#AcademicTwitter
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Silly question. For real academics work=life. weekends are always "work". but we dont see it that way. for us it is the life we love.
Academics, professional staff: How many hours do you work each weekend? Tell us via our major work-life survey
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We r on the cover of
@ACSPhotonics
🥳🥳🥳🥳 amazing work from
@Chili17591030
@NonahalMilad
@sejeong85
!
@UTS_Science
@TMOS_ARC
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reminder to all
#ECRs
- before you commit for a postdoc, even its a dream position in a top group, check with current and past(!) group members to make sure the group dynamics is healthy, the PI genuinly cares and the lab is operational.
#ecrchat
#phdchat
@EMCRForum
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Our Collaborative work on Coherent Control of spin defects in
#hBN
is finally online in
@ScienceAdvances
! with V. Dyakonov group
#quantum
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We looking for PhD students on topics of
#quantum
#photonics
#2D
materials to join us
@UTS_Science
and in collaboration with
@TMOS_ARC
! ping me for details
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desk rejections from
@NatureMaterials
@NatureNano
now include statements like "reviewer only commented on technical aspects, but email wasnt enthusiastic enough". REALLY? -enthusiasm and jargon in a review is more important than the content?
#AcademicTwitter
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My journey with shocking reviews continues to
@PhysRevLett
. I quote: "What is the Jahn Teller effect that the authors are mentioning"? LOL so now we need to explain basic textbooks too?
#AcademicChatter
#AcademicTwitter
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Our work is on the cover of
@ACSPhotonics
😍🥳🥳 and..... its on
#diamond
#thermometry
!
@UTS_Science
@TMOS_ARC
lead by Toan Tran who now has his own independent group!
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Our recent review! now online. Engineering Quantum Light Sources with Flat Optics
@TMOS_ARC
@UTS_Science
@DNeshev
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after years of negotiations,
@UTS_Science
@UTSEngage
finally agreed that our group should have a proper website....
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Here is an idea on saving $$$ for the
#Australian
#Universities
. Consider cancelling the agreemements with travel providers. I'm sure most academics can book their own flight ticket and hence save fees of up to 85$ per person! (my estimate over 100$M a year collectively)
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Very Excited to be promoted to a Fellow of SPIE
@SPIEtweets
- the international society for optics and photonics. Thanks to my students, colleagues and mentors who keep playing a pivotal role in our journey!
@UTSEngage
@TMOS_ARC
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So we as
#AcademicTwitter
need to decide - do we like to be judged by IF?? Because I thought we don't but last 24 hrs my entire feed was about people celebrating the rise of IF in their favourite journal....
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Our recent work on scalable and deterministic generation of
#quantum
emitters in
#hBN
Lead by our awesome student
@Chili17591030
@MetaOptics
@Xuzaiquan
. hopefully the cover is coming as well
@NanoLetters
@ACSPublications
@UTS_Science
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Great news! Super excited to be part of this amazing team
@MetaOptics
lead by
@DNeshev
together with Asutralian colleagues
@ANUmedia
@ResearchRMIT
@uwanews
and
@uommedia
to deliver new generation of
#nanophotonic
and
#metaoptics
!
@UTS_Science
@UTSEngage
So proud of the award of our Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems ()
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Our recent work on an alternative method to generate defects in
#diamond
is FINALLY online
@NatureComms
! we show new method to create emitters on any surface/geometry! The history of this work is long - thread to follow soon.
#diamond
#quantum
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Finally! nearly all the group together again, outside with a
#pizza
lunch! Wanna join this amazing gang? just apply - we have many
#PhD
and
#postdoc
positions available
@UTS_Science
@TMOS_ARC
#hbn
#diamond
#nanophotonics
#metaoptics
#quantum
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Our review on
#Photonics
with Hexagonal Boron Nitride (
#hBN
) is now online with
@NatRevMater
Together with Caldwell, Cassabois, Edgar, Gil and Basov (none on twitter!)
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Visiting
@HebrewU
has it's perks! U get an office and.... you get to meet your scientific idols!!
@AndreasAtETH
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How it started, and 5 years on.... good luck mate! Crimson colours all the way!
#firstdayofschool
@Sophia_Brat
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after ~ 2 years of work, and over 60k words, the tutorial on
#hexagonal
#boron
#nitride
in Advances in Optics and Photonics is out 🥳🍻
@OpticaPubsGroup
(Thumbnail image to be updated) Amazing effort from Cong, ELi, Mingze and Chi.
@TMOS_ARC
@UTS_Science
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As my EU trip comes to an end, the biggest surprise this time was the enormous discrepancy in funding between EU and AUS. More than order of magnitude more in the EU and continuous multi year grants from many sources. Very envious.
#AcademicChatter
#academictwitter
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Very excited to receive funding and support from
@arc_gov_au
to establish a new 3D Nanofab & Nanocharacterisation facility to benefit our researchers and industry partners
@UTS_Science
. Great start for
@MetaOptics
#LIEF20
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"The feasibility of the proposal is low becuase the objectives havent been demonstrated yet" 🤣🤣
#rejoinder
#DP23
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A pinnacle in the peer review: Got this today.. You couldnt make this one up even if you try... there is another 1 page of incorrect statements but nothing compared to the first page below.
#AcademicTwitter
#AcademicChatter
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The most annoying thing about editorial rejection is not the rejection. It is receiving the worst paper to review (wrong and outdated) the following week from the same editor.
#AcademicTwitter
#AcademicChatter
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me as an author: "ffks why does it take 4 months to review a paper? how hard is it to find reviewers?"
me as a reviewer: "why am i getting all these invites 10 times a day? decline..."
me as an editor: "can u pls pls pls review this?? u just published with us!"
#AcademicTwitter
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Our most recent work on making single crystal
#diamond
from poly (cost effective!) with super narrow
#GeV
#quantum
emitters is published at Adv Quantum Tech
@AdvSciNews
@MetaOptics
! Congrats
@NonahalMilad
and team
@sejeong85
@Chili17591030
@SJUWhite
!
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Large scale hybrid conferences simply dont work. people who present online, can't attend/talk to those present in person, and vise versa. as a result all presenters basically speak to empty rooms. so either one or the other.
#AcademicTwitter
#AcademicChatter
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we made it to
@PhysRevLett
@APSphysics
!!! work led by Mu Zhao, Weibo Gao from
@NTUsg
.
@TMOS_ARC
@UTS_Science
@UTSEngage
#hBN
#spins
#photonics
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First time in over 3 years heading to the
#USA
! Visiting
@argonne
and the
#quantum
school at
@LifeAtPurdue
@ABoltasseva
.
#hBN
#Photonics
#Quantum
. Looking forward for new collaborators and meeting friends and colleagues
@TMOS_ARC
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Today marks a decade (yes, 10 YEARS) at
@UTSEngage
@UTS_Science
.... started with ~ 20k$ startup and a room full of 1970s power meters/amplifiers... was super lucky to find amazing colleagues, and supportive managers as well as best students and ECRs along the way....
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Please spread the word - 18 months industry oriented, postdoc opportunity in
#quantum
#nanophotonic
is available in my group. apply in the link below.
@UTS_Science
@TMOS_ARC
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#RIP
Gordon Moore. you are one of the reasons why i enrolled into a Masters degree and continued since. ❤️. Your legacy would be forever remembered.
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Yey! And we made it to the cover!! (which is going on the wall...)
@Ella_Maru
what do u think?
Summer reading: our August issue is out, packed with high-entropy alloys, epsilon-near-zero media (
@Orad
@RWBoyd12
) & photonics with hexagonal boron nitride (
@igordownunder
) AND a Comment on how to land an academic position in the US!
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#nanofab
is awesome! admittedly, i didnt even dream we would be able to fab those at home,
@UTS_Science
@UTSEngage
! what an awesome team! lead by Otto (Undergraduate student!)
#photonics
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Internation food day in our group! Amazing cuisine from 12 countries of origin of our members! More photos to come!
@TMOS_ARC
@UTS_Science
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my postdoc summarised the entire field of
#2D
Materials
#nanophotonics
in 3 words: sandwich, bias, publish.🤣🤣🤣
@LaNMP_CUNY
@2Dsheffield
@Andres_2DMat
@MeteAtature
@2dsemiconductor
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this trend of editorial rejection and offers to submit to "our newest open access journal" really drives me nuts. if i wanted to submit to an open access i would NOT have chosen your journal!!!
#AcademicChatter
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What a pleasure hosting the legendary Prof Jelena Vuckovic
@StanfordPhoton1
@UTS_Science
@TMOS_ARC
. Great seminar on quantum photonics and on chip integration!
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wow.... almost fell of my chair receiving this: "The authors did an excellent job replying to my questions in the first round of reviews"
@APSphysics
#PRL
is coming
#hBN
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once the borders are open, i am gonna attend every predatory conference! invite me!
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Check out our recent
@NanoLetters
on how to imrove emission intensity and spin readout from
#spin
defects in
#hBN
. led by Johannes (just graduated) and Lesley (Honours student!)
#quantum
#photonics
@TMOS_ARC
@UTS_Science
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Typically our group has its annoual event as a massive
#BBQ
but this year, the crowd chose lawnbowling! was great fun! best team ever ♥️♥️♥️! few members missing (Ritika,
@NonahalMilad
, Blake)
@UTS_Science
@TMOS_ARC
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Love
#arc
#reviewers
:
2020 submission: project too broad and too ambitious - no chance of success.
2022 submission: project too narrow, should be aiming higher
🤣🤣🤣
overall thanks to both reviewers for the nice comments!🙏🙏🙏
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Time to celebrate!
@NatureMaterials
#double
thanks to the amazing students and ECRs Minh Nguyen,
@CarloBradac
, Mehran Kianinia and offcourse our collaborators that made it possible.
@UTS_Science
#hBN
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every time i go overseas - only one question is on my mind: wtf in 2023 we are still using different electrical plugs?????
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Finally in the lab! Today together with Mehran we built a confocal! One day from scratch. Thanks team for letting me play in the lab!
@UTS_Science
@MetaOptics
#PIinthelab
#quantum
#nanophotonics
#hBN
#diamond
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Great to have Australian Chief Scientist
@ScienceChiefAu
Dr Cathy Foley visiting
@UTSEngage
@UTS_Science
@TMOS_ARC
and touring our labs. great to highlight our efforts on
#quantum
and
#hBN
. Here to kick off the NDNC meeting!
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A focused workshop on Hexagonal Boron Nitride is coming!!! Join us next year on the coast of the beautiful Mediterranean sea to learn about this fascinating material. More details to follow.
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Thank you for the recognition,
@SPIEtweets
! Excellent company to share the honour with. 🥳🥳🥳Thanks also to
@ProfArmani
,
@TMOS_ARC
@arc_gov_au
and the outstanding team at
@UTS_Science
!
Congratulations to the newly-elected 2022
#SPIE
Senior Members! 🥳
Honorees include
@ptolemytortoise
,
@JudithTTSu
,
@igordownunder
,
@EPFL_altug_lab
,
@agmarrugo
,
@TatianaNovikov1
,
@kevin_tsia
, and 70 other outstanding individuals:
#optics
#photonics
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Our review with
@JPTetienne
on
#hBN
#Quantum
Emitters is now online
@NanoLetters
Thank you for the opportunity! What a journey over last ~ 6 years by the community accross the world. watch this space!
@UTS_Science
@TMOS_ARC
#TMOS2022
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This year we have four PhDs graduating(/ed) and two
#ECRs
leaving to start independent academic pathways! its exciting and a great timing to join us and lead fascinating discoveries in
#quantum
#photonics
#diamond
#hBN
!
#AcademicChatter
#phd
#postdoc
@MetaOptics
@UTS_Science
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