Awards
- 1999: High Distinction in Mathamatics competition - ranked in top 3 % of Australia.
- 2001: Dux of the school award
- 2003: Dick Makinson prize for topping second year physics.
- 2004: $400 1st place in PHYS306 Optical Physics - W. H. "Beattie" Steel Award
- 2004: 1st place in 300-level Physics - J. C. Ward Award
- 2004: Btech majoring in Optoelectronics
- 2005: Awarded $ 5000 Macqurie University Scholarship for the duration of honours
- 2005: Btech with 1st class Honours majoring in Optoelectronics
- 2006: $19500pa Australian Postgraduate Award for 3 years
- 2006: $3994.31 ICS Postgraduate Research Fund (ICS PGRF) awarded to aid with Phd project.
- 2007: 3rd place - CUDOS Workshop poster competition - $ 150.
- 2007: $3290.37 ICS Postgraduate Research Fund (ICS PGRF) awarded to aid with Phd project.
- 2007: Applied for Macqurie Postgraduate Research Fund (MQPGRF) award to the value of $4000.00 to aid in the cost of travel to present at an international conference in Quebec city, Canada.
- 2007: Photonics Spectra magazine wrote an article about the work carried out in my first journal paper.