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Department(s)/lab(s): School of Physics / Institute of Medical Physics | Kuncic Medical Physics and Nanoscale Systems Group @ USyd
Summary:

Kuncic works across medical physics and nanoscale systems: nanoparticle-enhanced radiotherapy and dosimetry (where high-Z nanoparticles act as local dose amplifiers and the physics question is energy deposition at nanometre scales), nanoparticle contrast agents and theranostics, and — separately — neuromorphic nanowire networks as physical computing substrates. The medical-physics thread is the relevant one here: it is about quantifying and imaging what a nanoscale probe does inside tissue. 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 — the nanoparticle-in-tissue problem she works on is the same delivery-and-quantification problem that determines whether an in-cell nanodiamond sensor operating near the pT/sqrt(Hz) regime reports anything biologically meaningful. Borderline inclusion; a candidate would be bringing quantum sensing to her, not the reverse.

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: medical physics and nanoscale systems, School of Physics / Institute of Medical Physics. Also runs a separate neuromorphic nanowire network programme.