The team
Staff
Prof Cyrille Boyer
Professor
Cyrille heads the Boyer lab at UNSW and is also co-director of the Australian Centre for Nanomedcine and a member of the Centre for Advanced Macromolecular Design. He has received numerous awards for his work in polymerisation, including UNSW Research Excellence Award, Prime Minister Prize for Science (Malcolm MacIntosh Prize) and ACS Biomacromolecules/Macromolecules Young Investigator Award. Cyrille’s research interests cover the use of photoredox catalysts to perform living radical polymerisation, hybrid organic–inorganic nanoparticles for imaging, nanomedicine and energy storage. Cyrille has published over 250 research articles, including eight patents, which have gathered over 11000 citations.
HomePage Google Scholar Email: cboyer@unsw.edu.au
Dr Edgar Wong
Junior Group Leader - Vice-Chancellor’s Research Fellow
Edgar is a multidisciplinary researcher whose work spans across several disciplines including synthetic (polymer) chemistry, materials science, (micro)biology and nanotechnology. His focus is now on generating materials for antimicrobial and anticancer applications.
Dr Susan Oliver
Team Leader FSI Project / Senior Research Fellow
Susan joined the Boyer Group after many years in industry. Her work focuses on developing functional polymeric materials and nanoparticles from natural products for antimicrobial, anticancer and advanced materials applications. She leads the team developing fire retardant polymeric materials.
Dr Nathaniel Corrigan
Post Doc
Photo-flow polymerisation systems
Photoredox catalysis
Photopolymerisation
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Dr Kenward Jung
Post Doc
Photopolymerisation in miniemulsion
Photoredox catalysis
Dr Dewen Zhou
Research Associate
Dewen is a research associate working on the development of fire retardant coating materials. Her research interest is in synthesis of polymeric nanoparticles using polymerization-induced self-assembly.
LinkedIn Email: dewen.zhou@unsw.edu.au
Dr Winny Fam
Research Associate
Winny is a research associate working on the development of fire retardant coating materials. Her research interests include membrane fabrication for gas separation and water applications, thin film coatings, and material characterisations.
Email: winny.fam@unsw.edu.au
Dr Lei Lei
Research Associate
Lei is a research associate working on the development of fire-retardant polymers. His research interests include the preparation and application of stimuli-responsive polymers, anti-smudge coatings and emulsion templated polymeric products.
Dr Ka Wai Fan
Research Associate
Ka Wai is a research associate with strong interest in industry topics. He is currently developing fire retardant system for polymer composite used in real-life products. Prior to this role, Ka Wai has built his research experience from topics that focus on the use of aqueous chemistry. He is particularly interested in the application of polydopamine and its analogues in functional coating and nanocapsule fabrication, as well as silica-based microencapsulation technology.
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Graduate research students
If you are interested in pursuing a graduate research degree with the Boyer Lab, please contact Prof Cyrille Boyer. Email: cboyer@unsw.edu.au
Zahra Sadrearhami
PhD candidate
Rashin Zangeneh
PhD candidate
Antimicrobial polymers
Chenyu Wu
PhD candidate; web admin
Quantum chemical studies of photocatalysis
Computer-guided photocatalyst design
Photoredox catalysis
Homepage Google Scholar Email: chenyu.wu@student.unsw.edu.au
Gervase Ng
PhD candidate
High-throughput photopolymerisation in open-air
Google Scholar Email: g.b.ng@unsw.edu.au
Huijie Zhu
PhD candidate
Liwen Zhang
PhD candidate
Junchen (Cliff) He
PhD student
Antimicrobial materials
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Junchen (Cliff) He
PhD student
Antimicrobial materials
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Coursework students
If you are interested in completing research with the Boyer Lab as part of your Honours or Masters degree, please contact
Prof Cyrille Boyer. Email: cboyer@unsw.edu.au
Leonid Zhernakov
Photopolymerisation
Photoredox catalysis/Flow polymerization
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Masters coursework student
Lily Zhao
Honours student