Photonics in Life and Health

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The student will adopt a portfolio approach to their research and will benefit from the opportunity of exposure to a number of different photonics research areas and industrial collaborators. The student will commence on a project looking to develop an optical microfluidic-silicon chip diagnostic platform for the point-of-care detection of antibiotic susceptibility. In the first instance, the technology is being developed to investigate antibiotic susceptibility of bacteria involved in urinary tract infection. This is a project already underway for development of a benchtop instrument. A follow-on project will be to develop of a hand-held instrument for the same application but using a different optical waveguide structure that has been developed in the IOP.In addition, there will be the opportunity for the student to be immersed in other FCAP industry facing projects under the health and life sciences theme, amongst others.