The 34th Australian Colloid and Surface Science Student Conference
Invited Speakers
Keynote Speakers Announced
Dr. Paul Joyce - The University of South Australia
Talk Title: Guts, drugs and bugs: Engineering new materials for oral drug delivery
Bio: Dr. Paul Joyce is a Research Fellow at University of South Australia’s newly established Centre for Pharmaceutical Innovation, who specialises in engineering and pre-clinically optimising innovative therapeutic approaches to treating and curing diseases by working at the interface of pharmaceutical science and colloid and materials engineering. Dr. Joyce completed his PhD in Pharmacy (UniSA) in 2016, where his contribution to the fields of pharmaceutical science and materials engineering were recognised with the Postgraduate Medal for Most Outstanding Thesis and the Norton Jackson Materials Science and Engineering Award. Upon completing his PhD, Dr. Joyce was awarded a highly competitive, international Postdoctoral Research Fellowship through funding from the Åforsk Foundation, which he completed at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden. Dr. Joyce has published over 50 research outputs and has been awarded over $5 million in competitive research funding.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3619-7901
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nanomed-pauljoyce
Email: Paul.Joyce@unisa.edu.au
Dr. Xuan Wu - The University of South Australia
Talk Title: Interfacial Solar Steam Generation and Applications
Bio: Dr Xuan Wu is a Research Fellow with
Future Industries Institute, University of South Australia. Her research focuses on the design and development of photothermal materials and evaporation systems for their applications in seawater desalination, wastewater evaporation and atmospheric water harvesting. She has been actively collaborating with national (Santos, Australia; Tarac Technologies, Australia) and international industry partners (Gunmachoseki Co., Japan; Huasheng Graphite Co. Ltd., China) to facilitate the translation of fundamental research outcomes into practical solutions. She has published 38 papers in journals includingScience Bulletin, Advanced Functional Materials, Nano Energy, Advanced Science. Her research publications have collectively received more than 2,650 citations, with an h-index of 23.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8964-9452
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/xuan-wu-059128159/
Email: xuan.wu@unisa.edu.au
Prof. Patrick Spicer - UNSW
Talk Title: Curiosity, disruption, and applications
Bio: Patrick Spicer is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at UNSW in a group that explores unique response and flow in soft materials. After getting his PhD, Patrick ran a central engineering research group in the Procter & Gamble Company for 15 years and has been at UNSW for 10 years.
Email: p.spicer@unsw.edu.au