The Team
RMIT University, May 2025
Team Lead
Dr Philipp Reineck
Vice Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow, RMIT University, Australia
Philipp is a Vice Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. He graduated in Physics from the University of Munich (LMU), received his PhD in Materials Engineering from Monash University in 2014, and was awarded an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellowship in 2019. His research interests span many areas including fluorescent nanomaterials, plasmonics, nanoparticle chemistry and self-assembly, nano-photonics, and bioimaging and sensing. His current focus is the development of fluorescent nanomaterials - particularly nanodiamonds - for imaging and sensing applications.
Postdocs
Dr Erin Grant
Erin is an expert in quantum sensing using fluorescent nanodiamonds with a focus on applications in biology.
Dr Giannis Thalassinos
Giannis Is an expert in nanodiamond materials science. His current focus is developing new materials for a range of quantum sensing applications.
Students
Fatin Al Sadab
PhD Student, RMIT University
Fatin is exploring new fluorescent defects in the near-infrared spectral region above 1000 nm in diamond and related materials.
Patrick Voorhoeve
PhD Student, RMIT University
Patrick’s project aims to use fluorescent nanodiamonds as voltage sensors for neuronal interfaces.
Alessandro Mameli
PhD Student, RMIT University
Alessandro is working towards creating better fluorescent nanodiamonds for quantum sensing applications. He aims to use co-doping to control the fluorescence properties of nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond.
Priya Singh
PhD Student, RMIT University
Priya’s project focuses on the fabrication and characterization of new fluorescent defects in wide-bandgap materials like boron nitride and diamond for nanoscale quantum sensing applications.
Daniel Tibben
PhD Student, RMIT University
Daniel works on the fabrication and characterization of thin-film optical cavities for enhancing photochemical upconversion, i.e. to convert red light to blue light. Daniel Gomez is Daniel's main supervisor.
Roy Styles
PhD Student, RMIT University
Roy’s project focuses on understanding the properties of fluorescent nanodiamonds and how their fluorescence can be used to precisely and quickly measure voltages at the nanoscale.
Katherine Chea
PhD Student, RMIT University
Katherine aims to understand how nanoparticles of different sizes and shapes like nanodiamonds can form highly regular crystal structures in suspension. Gary Bryant is Katherine’s main supervisor.
Davin Peng
PhD Student, RMIT University
Davin aims to use single nitrogen-vacancy color centres in nanodiamonds to develop an all optical, fluorescence-based sensor for extreme conditions. He's currently focusing on characterizing the fluorescence properties of single-photon emitters in nanodiamonds.