McGinty develops fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM) instrumentation, including endoscopic and widefield FLIM systems, for applications in cancer diagnosis and metabolic/functional imaging.
Menzel's group develops computational scattered-light imaging methods, principally 3D Polarized Light Imaging (3D-PLI) and coherent Fourier scatterometry, to reconstruct the crossing-fiber architecture of unstained brain tissue at micrometer resolution without labeling. The lab combines birefringence/diattenuation measurements with finite-difference time-domain light-scattering simulations to push orientation resolution of nerve-fiber tracts beyond what diffusion MRI or standard histology can achieve, and is actively recruiting postdocs to extend the technique to new tissue types and label-free contrast mechanisms.
Neil works on advanced optical microscopy techniques including structured-illumination and super-resolved (STED/SIM) imaging, and wavefront-based aberration correction, within Imperial's Photonics/Biophotonics group.
Paterson develops adaptive-optics and wavefront-sensing techniques to correct optical aberrations in fluorescence microscopy and imaging through complex/turbid media, improving resolution and depth in biological and biomedical imaging.
Reece runs UNSW's optical trapping and nanophotonics laboratory. The group combines optical tweezers with spectroscopy and microfluidics to characterise individual nanoparticles and cells: trapping and spectroscopically interrogating plasmonic core-satellite assemblies (with Gooding and Tilley), measuring single-cell mechanics, and building porous-silicon and photonic-crystal resonant structures for label-free biosensing where the analyte shifts a cavity resonance. 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 — optical trapping is the standard way to hold a nanoscale sensor — including a nanodiamond hosting an NV ensemble at pT/sqrt(Hz) — at a controlled position inside a cell or fluid, and levitated-nanodiamond spin-mechanics is an active field that this group's capabilities map onto almost exactly. Strong practical fit for a bio-oriented quantum sensing candidate.
Rigneault leads the MOSAIC team at Institut Fresnel, developing label-free nonlinear optical microscopy (CARS/SRS) for chemically-specific imaging of lipids and biomolecules in tissue, and pioneering lensless, hair-thin fiber-bundle endoscopes based on wavefront control for minimally invasive deep-tissue and in vivo biological imaging. He holds 17 patents in optical engineering and molecular spectroscopy for the life sciences.
Rowlands develops new optical imaging technologies for biology and medicine, including label-free vibrational (coherent Raman) microscopy and computational imaging approaches aimed at faster, higher-resolution biomedical imaging.
Smith runs Melbourne's time-resolved fluorescence facility and specialises in the information channels most people throw away: fluorescence lifetime, anisotropy decay and its orientational content, and single-molecule photophysics, applied to organic semiconductors, energy-transfer systems and biological samples. The group builds its own confocal microspectroscopy instrumentation for time-resolved anisotropy imaging and single-molecule detection. 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 — lifetime- and orientation-resolved fluorescence is the principal orthogonal contrast mechanism to spin-based sensing, and his instrumentation is the natural correlative partner for NV-ensemble DEER/relaxometry experiments at pT/sqrt(Hz) that need an independent optical readout of the same specimen. Preferred attribute present: orientation- and lifetime-resolved methods.
Treussart uses fluorescent nanodiamonds (NV centres) as photostable bio-probes: intracellular single-particle tracking, nanoscale thermometry/magnetometry, and multimodal biosensing in cells and organisms, alongside super-resolution imaging - a direct NV-ensemble-to-biology bridge. In the broader landscape of NV-centre ensemble quantum sensing (DEER, nano-NMR, T1 relaxometry) operating near pT/sqrt(Hz) sensitivity, this work is applied here to living cells via nanodiamond probes.
Zheltikov integrates NV-diamond magnetometry into photonic-crystal fibers for high-resolution, fiber-delivered magnetic-field imaging and endoscopy, alongside ultrafast biophotonics (multiphoton deep-tissue imaging, SWIR probes) and quantum-light molecular spectroscopy. In the broader landscape of NV-centre ensemble quantum sensing (DEER, nano-NMR, T1 relaxometry) operating near pT/sqrt(Hz) sensitivity, this work extends NV ensemble sensing into fiberized, in-vivo-compatible geometries.