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Profile of Nanotechnologist Udo Bach
Another staff member we are happy to have join us in Materials Engineering, as a joint appointment with the Chemistry Department, is Dr Udo Bach. After completing his chemistry studies at the University of Konstanz in Germany Udo joined the group of professor Michael Graetzel at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne to conduct his PhD thesis in the area of dye-sensitised solar cells. These are very interesting solar cells which represent a much cheaper and easier to make form of solar cell, compared with traditional silicon solar cells. His major achievement was the successful application of organic charge transfer materials in dye-sensitised photovoltaic cells and he published seminal and highly cited papers in this area. Following his PhD he moved on to Dublin/ Ireland where he worked as a research group leader in a nanotechnology start-up company on the development of paper-quality displays (NTera Ltd.). After a short stay in Switzerland as visiting scientist he joined the group of professor Paul Alivisatos at UC Berkeley (USA) where he started his work the DNA-directed assembly of nanoparticles onto DNA-patterned surfaces. In 2004 he was awarded an ARC-funded Monash Research Fellowship that brought him to Melbourne in November 2005. He is also affiliated to the new ARC Centre for Electromaterials Science which sits across both the Materials Engineering and Chemistry departments. His current research interests are in the area of dye-sensitized solar cells and DNA-directed nanofabrication. For further information, please contact Udo.Bach@sci.monash.edu.au
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