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  • Chemball 2018 (aka the best recent chemball)
  • Farewell Dr. Kristel Tjandra @ Coogee Pavillion (All the best in Stanford)
  • 1 Minute Thesis Competition presenters
  • Taiwanese dinner @ Johnson's shed
  • Grand city farewell for Rafael Colombo returning to Brazil
  • Postdoc's secret Friday night out
  • Beginning and end of their PhD for Dani (who finished honours with us) and Dr Manish Sriram
  • Dani was awarded the best presentation in the 1st year presentation
  • A bunch of cool kids mimicking Johnson's military poker face
  • Kristine's first-year confirmation (Dec 2019)
  • James saved a turtle on the road, Centennial Park (Dec 2019, left to right: James, Shuree, Xueqian)
  • Farewell trip for Ujji, Stockton Sand Dunes
  • Jervis Bay
  • Powerpuff boys, Tomaree Head
  • Cake in Kitchen
  • Port Stephens
  • Port Stephens
  • Korean bbq dinner
  • SMS badmington group
  • Powerpuff boys (again)
  • PhD students day out
  • Kristines first year confirmation
  • CBNS Christmas Party
  • SMS pool athletes
  • Farewell party for Bobby Wenqian
  • Halloween Party
  • SMS Christmas Party
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  • 2019 Christmas BBQ, Centennial Park
  • 2019 Christmas BBQ, Centennial Park
  • 2019 Christmas BBQ, Centennial Park
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Chemball 2018 (aka the best recent chemball)

Farewell Dr. Kristel Tjandra @ Coogee Pavillion (All the best in Stanford)

1 Minute Thesis Competition presenters

Taiwanese dinner @ Johnson's shed

Grand city farewell for Rafael Colombo returning to Brazil

Postdoc's secret Friday night out

Beginning and end of their PhD for Dani (who finished honours with us) and Dr Manish Sriram

Dani was awarded the best presentation in the 1st year presentation

A bunch of cool kids mimicking Johnson's military poker face

Kristine's first-year confirmation (Dec 2019)

James saved a turtle on the road, Centennial Park (Dec 2019, left to right: James, Shuree, Xueqian)

Farewell trip for Ujji, Stockton Sand Dunes

Jervis Bay

Powerpuff boys, Tomaree Head

Cake in Kitchen

Port Stephens

Port Stephens

Korean bbq dinner

SMS badmington group

Powerpuff boys (again)

PhD students day out

Kristines first year confirmation

CBNS Christmas Party

SMS pool athletes

Farewell party for Bobby Wenqian

Halloween Party

SMS Christmas Party

PhD students' day out (again)

2019 Christmas BBQ, Centennial Park

2019 Christmas BBQ, Centennial Park

2019 Christmas BBQ, Centennial Park

2019 Christmas BBQ, Centennial Park

2019 Christmas BBQ, Centennial Park

2019 Christmas BBQ, Centennial Park

Outreach

Outreach group photo

Outreach

Outreach

materials lab students

sms-hilmer

SciX-2022

  • Smart materials and surfaces group
  • SMS End of Year Morning Tea, 09 December 2020, a social distancing group photo on the steps of the Esme Timbery Creative Practice Lab UNSW
  • Justin speaking in Geneva, Jan 2019
  • Two students holding large beers
  • Two students in lab pulling faces
  • Making dumplings
  • Blue Mountains group
  • Group Photo, Clovelly, November 2018
  • 3 students doing yoga tree pose
  • Eating in restaurant.
  • Happy birthday Shuree!

Biosensors and Biodevices Group Photo Gallery from 2004 - 2011

  • Group BBQ December 2010.
  • Justin, Naresh, Naomi and Muthu at the International Society of Electrochemistry meeting in Nice, September 2010.
  • The research group, June 2010.
  • Justin wins the Eureka Prize for Scientific Research in 2009. Seen here on the night with Cate Blanchett and Prof. Brett Neilan (another Eureka prize winner).
  • Justin, Prof. David Black and A/Prof. Naresh Kumar at the Taj Mahal, July 2009.
  • The research group in January 2009.
  • Kris Kilian wins the UNSW U Committee Prize for best Ph.D. in Science in 2008. Seen here with Prof. David Black and Head of School Professor Barbara Messerle.
  • Kris saying goodbye in his own inimitable style at his farewell (November 2007).
  • Kris's farewell celebration before the sombreros arrived (November 2007).
  • Justin receives the RACI Lloyd Smythe medal for contributions to Analytical Chemistry for 2007 from Prof Neil Barnett.
  • Justin on sabbatical in 2005, not all labs are as nice as ours.
  • Our visitor from Universitii Kenbangsan Malaysia, A/Prof. Lee Yook Heng with Justin in the Blue Mountains.
  • Dr Ian Harding and Dr Sridhar Iyengar from AgaMatrix Inc., a glucose biosensing company then in its early days, in our laboratory.
  • The research group in 2004.

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