PhD Alumni

Dr. Weijie (Jack) Gao 

Effective-Medium-Clad Dielectric Components Towards Terahertz Integrated Platform

PhD student (Founding member; 2018–2021)

Supervisors: Withawat, Christophe Fumeaux

Scholarships & awards:

• ECMS Scholarship

• Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC) 2021 Student Prize

• Dean's Commendation for Doctoral Thesis Excellence

• University Doctoral Research Medal, 2022

• Gertrude Rohan Memorial Prize, 2022

Now Project Researcher, Nagatsuma Laboratory, Osaka University

Dr. Xiaolong You

Broadband Terahertz Metasurfaces

PhD student (2017–2021); CSC Scholarship

Supervisors: Withawat, Christophe Fumeaux

Purple Mountain Laboratories, China

Dr. Wendy S.-L. Lee

Terahertz Metasurfaces for Wideband Polarisation Control

Postdoctoral Researcher & Area Manager (Founding member; 2017–2021)

Now Lecturer, The University of New South Wales

Dr. Daniel Headland

Efficient Terahertz-Range Beam Control Using Flat Optics

Postdoctoral Researcher (2017)

Scholarships & awards:

• University Doctoral Research Medal

• CONEX-Plus Marie Curie Fellow, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid 

• Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) 2024

• IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Young Professional Ambassador 2025