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Post Doctoral Research Fellows
	Dr. Benjamin Fraser Research Areas: Natural product synthesis Asymmetric synthesis Structured triacylglyerol synthesis Medical contrast agents Ben.Fraser@sci.monash.edu.au
	Dr. Jonathan MacLellan Research Areas: Synthesis and Structure of Group I organometallics Structural Investigations of Superbases Inverse Crown Chemistry Group II Organometallics Jonathan.MacLellan@sci.monash.edu.au
	Dr. Massimiliano Massi Research Areas: Medical Contrast Agents Organometallic Chemistry Lanthanide Chemistry Macromolecular Chemistry Materials Chemistry Massimiliano.Massi@sci.monash.edu.au
	Peter Kemppinen Research Areas: Peter.Kemppinen@sci.monash.edu.au

PhD students
	Iryna Nuzhnaya Title of the current project: Synthesis of precursors for Atmospheric Plasma Chemical Vapour Deposition (APCVD). Iryna.Nuzhnaya@sci.monash.edu.au
	Magdaline Minopoulos Title of the current project: Synthesis, characterisation and application of newl homo- and hereto- bimetallic chiral metal amides and phosphites. Magdaline.Minopoulos@sci.monash.edu.au
	Anthony Auxilio Title of the current project(1):Adsorption and Intercalation of Acid Blue 9 on Mg-Al Layered Double Hydroxides with Variation in the Metal Ratio. Title of the current project(2):Surface Modification of Aluminium Monohydroxides (AlOOH). Anthony.Auxilio@sci.monash.edu.au
	Ish Kumar Title of the current project: Synthesis, characterization and testing of non-ionic, non-iodinated, water soluble metal cluster compounds for MRI and CT scanning. Ish.Kumar@sci.monash.edu.au
	Will Gee Title of the current project: Will.Gee@sci.monash.edu.au

Masters Student

Rene Frank (Commenced: February 2007)
MSc Student

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Honours students

Past students and researchers
	Katharina Schloze (Bachelor degree, February 2007) Title of the project: Synthesis and characterisation of bismuth sulfonates.
	Tobias Beck (MSc., September 2006 - February 2007) Title of the project: Synthesis and Characterization of Lanthanide Clusters for X-ray Imaging and Catalysis.
	Anastasiya Bashkirava (MSc., October 2004 - January 2007) Title of the project: Production of electro-optical materials for "smart device" applications.
	David Giera (Honours, February - October 2006) Exchange student from Germany (Uni Leipzig) Degree: Bachelor of Science (Chemistry) Title of the honours project : Development of Water-Soluble Lanthanide Complexes for Medical Imaging and Catalysis. Fields of scientific interest: Total synthesis of organic compounds, Polymer chemistry. david.giera@freenet.de
	Nadia Spiccia (Honours, 2005-2006) Degrees: Bachelor of Science (Chemistry) Bachelor of Laws Title of the honours project : Synthesis and Characterisation of Bismuth Thiolates. Vacation scholarship 2003/ 2004- Monash University Center for Green Chemistry; Vacation scholarship 2004/ 2005 - CSIRO Molecular Science -Parallel synthesis group. Area(s) of interest: Organometallic / Microwave synthesis/ Chiral TACN ligands. Nadia.Spiccia@sci.monash.edu.au
	Dr. Matthias Hilder (Postdoc, 2004-2005) (Diplom) Honours in Chemical engineering/matrials science (2001), University of applied Sciences Muenster, Germany; PhD in Chemistry (2004), Monash University; Previous research projects: materials for OLED applications sensors detecting target molecules associated with food spoilage surface sensitive methode to quantify the calcium carbonat filler content in paper samples Iron phosphonates for pyrol oxidation Develope fines which luminesce and which show X-ray contrast Photophysical properties of Eu and Tb benzoate derivative complexes (PhD) Ammoniak on-board SCR catalysis (DaimlerCrysler: Friedrichshafen, Germany: Diplom thesis)
	Melissa Maguire (Honours, 2001-2002) Degrees: Honours degree of Bachelor of Science, Monash, 2002. Bachelor of Laws with Honours, Monash, 2002. Research in to the Synthesis and characterisation of alkali metal amides (2001) and Synthesis of certain organo-bismuth compounds, partial green chemistry.
	Simone Calleja (Honours, 2001-2002) Degrees: Bachelor of Arts - 2001, Monash University Bachelor of Science (Honours, 2001), Monash University Masters of Intellectual Property Law (2004), Monash University Honours Research: The synthesis and characterisation of chiral alkali metal amides.