Dr Adam Micolich
BSc (Hons) UNSW, PhD UNSW ARC Fellowship

Dr Adam Micolich received his B.Sc. (Hons) degree in Physics from the University of NSW in 1997, and his Ph.D. degree from the University of NSW in 2001 for his thesis on electron transport in GaAs quantum dots. He then worked as a Research Associate at the University of Oregon, U.S.A during 2000-2002, and returned to Australia as a Senior Research Associate in 2002. In 2003, he was awarded an ARC Australian Postdoctoral Research Fellowship and in mid-2006, he will take up a position as a Lecturer in the School of Physics at the University of NSW. His research interests include electronic studies of field-effect transistors based on organic semiconductors and molecular crystals, quantum and many-body effects in GaAs FET devices, the development of electronic devices based on ion-implantation into plastic films, and the development and study of electronic devices based on CVD-grown carbon nanotubes.

Dr Micolich has published more than 50 research papers and is co-author of one patent application. He was the network convenor for the ‘Young Investigators Network for Next Generation Electronic Devices’, which received funding in the ARC Networks seed-funding scheme and which was one of four networks to amalgamate to form the ARCNN. He has been the publicity officer and website coordinator for the NSW Branch of the Australian Institute of Physics in 2003/2004 and a member of the organizing committee for the ATSE/DEST-sponsored ‘Frontiers of Science and Technology Workshop on Soft Condensed Matter and Nanoscale Physics’ held in December 2003. He is a member of the Australian Institute of Physics, American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and serves as a regular referee for APS journals including Physical Review Letters and Physical Review B/E.