Professor Paul Mulvaney
PhD Melbourne, ARC QEII Research Fellow, Humbolt Resarch Fellow

Associate Professor Paul Mulvaney is a Reader in Physical Chemistry at the University of Melbourne. He received his PhD degree at the University of Melbourne in 1989, working on the kinetics of nanocrystal reactions with Professor Franz Grieser. He worked briefly as a research associate at the ANU Applied Maths Department and spent 7 months at the Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago in 1986-87. He subsequently spent 4 years as a research scientist at the Hahn-Meitner-Institute for Nuclear Research in Berlin from 1989-1992 with Professor Arnim Henglein, where he studied pulse radiolysis and the nucleation of nanocrystals. In 1993 he returned to the University of Melbourne as an ARC QEII Research Fellow, and he accepted a Faculty position in 1997. In 1999, he spent time in Palo Alto with Quantum Dot Corporation. He was a Humboldt Research Fellow in 2000 at the Max-Planck Insitute for Colloids and Surfaces in Golm with Professor Markus Antonietti, and again in 2005 at the CAESAR Institute in Bonn with Professor Michael Giersig.

His current interests involve the optical properties of single quantum dots, microfluid surface chemistry, the use of nanocrystals as biochemical markers, photonic crystals, nanomechanics and the use of atomic force microscopy to measure surface forces. He is the recipient of the David Syme and Grimwade Prizes. He has published over 110 scientific papers and his work has accumulated more than 3300 citations. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of Advanced Functional Materials and the Royal Society Journal PCCP, and sits on the scientific advisory boards of Quantum Dot Corporation and Genera Biosystems.