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Laureate Professor, Director ARC Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science, University of Melbourne 🔗
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Department(s)/lab(s): School of Chemistry / Bio21 Institute | Mulvaney Nanoscience Laboratory @ UMelb
Summary:

Mulvaney directs the ARC Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science and runs Melbourne's nanoscience laboratory. The group's distinctive capability is single-particle and single-emitter optical spectroscopy: photon-antibunching and blinking statistics from individual quantum dots and perovskite nanocrystals, photothermal and dark-field spectroscopy of individual metal nanoparticles, and the electrochemical control of single-nanocrystal charge state. Applications run from LEDs and solar cells to quantum-dot probes for single-particle tracking in cells. Positioned against the established body of NV-ensemble quantum sensing work — DEER, nanoscale NMR and T1 relaxometry protocols operating at pT/sqrt(Hz) field sensitivity — his single-emitter photon-statistics measurements share the shot-noise-limited photon-counting methodology of NV-ensemble ODMR readout, and the group's nanocrystal probes are direct competitors/complements to nanodiamond in cellular sensing. Large, well-resourced group.

Created at: July 12, 2026, 1:03 a.m. Updated at: July 12, 2026, 1:03 a.m. Metadata: Fresh 2026-07-11. Primary lab: Mulvaney nanoscience laboratory, School of Chemistry/Bio21; also Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science (multi-node).