Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing (IPAS)

Institute for Photonics & Advanced Sensing

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Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing (IPAS)

Defence and National Security - Research into the development of new fibres with specific transmission properties, fibre lasers and fibre sensors.

Environmental Monitoring - Working to develop novel photonic tools that will allow a genetic fingerprint to be developed of an environment.

Food and Wine - Photonic fibre sensors being developed at IPAS allow the rapid measurement of specific chemical and biological markers with very small sample volumes.

Medical Diagnostics - We are working with IVMS to develop new point of care sensors that can be deployed in airports during flu outbreaks to give rapid diagnosis of infections.

Further Enquiries

IPAS
Sara Boffa - Email
Telephone: +61 8 8313 1059
Facsimile: +61 8 8303 4380

The University of Adelaide
SA 5005 Australia
Email
Telephone: +61 8 8303 5996
Facsimile: +61 8 8303 4380

IPAS brings together physicists, chemists and biologists to pursue a new transdisciplinary approach to science.

We are developing novel photonic, sensing and measurement technologies that will change the way science is done within traditional discipline areas, stimulating the creation of new industries, and inspiring a new generation of scientists to be engaged in solving real-world problems. IPAS research targets applications in four key market areas:

The Institute for Photonics & Advanced Sensing has been founded on the success of the Centre of Expertise In Photonics, a joint centre of the University of Adelaide and the Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) and the recognition of the importance that new forms of advanced sensing will play in the world [See the brochure].

Part of this recognition has been the award of $29M from EIF for the construction of a new facility to house IPAS. This has been further supplemented by $5M from Government of South Australia and other monies from DSTO and NCRIS schemes.

Paper of the Month

Paper of the Month Langmuir - An A* interdisciplinary journal of the ACS, whose scope includes colloids, biological interfaces, materials, electrochemistry, and devices and applications. Have featured 'Electrochemistry of Ferrocenoyl B-Peptide Monolayers on Gold' Langmuir, 2010, 26 (2), pp 1334–1339 by Prof Andrew Abell of IPAS.

Job/Study Opportunities

Job/Study Opportunities IPAS is currently looking for candidates for two PhD Scholarships: "Laser Radar for Enviornmental Monitoring", "Fibre Sensors for Corrosion Monitoring".