Michael graduated with a PhD in solid state physics in 1998 and was an Australian NHMRC Post Doctoral Fellow from 1999-2003 at UOW. He was a founding member of the Centre for Medical Radiation Physics (CMRP) at UOW and is now the Deputy Director of CMRP. He is a Senior Professor at UOW and the Associate Dean of Research for the Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences at UOW.
Michael applies his expertise of electronic properties of semiconductors to the design and development of novel, solid state based sensors and instrumentation for application in radiation medicine. He has played a major role in the development of real-time, solid state radiation dosimetry systems with millimetre and sub-millimetre spatial resolution. Michael is also interested in the optimization of radiation medicine created by the physical and semiconducting properties of engineered nano-ceramics and semiconductor devices in different radiation field environments (e.g. photons or charged particles). He is interested in the real-world implementation and application of real-time devices designed to operate in vivo from a targeted diagnostic imaging and radiotherapy point of view.
Michael's extensive experience in cutting-edge instrumentation for radiation medicine (imaging, dosimetry and therapy) is demonstrated by several years of undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and research at UOW. Michael’s research outputs align to the Medical Physics field of research (FOR) at UOW and this FOR is ranked as being well above world standard (Australian Research Council Excellence in Research (ERA) initiative in 2018). Michael has published over 250 journal articles and has supervised more than 45 higher degree research students to completion. His research and development projects have been realised through national and international competitive research funding agencies, industry contracts and consultancies.