Associate Professor Michael James

Dr Michael James has BSc from the University of Sydney and a PhD in inorganic chemistry from the University of Cambridge investigating new classes of magnetic and superconducting ceramics. He is a Principal Research Scientist and leader of the project to build the new $4million PLATYPUS Time-of-Flight Reflectometer at Australia’s OPAL research reactor. PLATYPUS is a world-class instrument for studying thin-films and buried interfaces on 1nm to 100nm lengthscales, and has the capacity to study films on solid and free-liquid substrates as well as magnetic systems. Following posdoctoral positions at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (UK) and the University of Nagoya (Japan), he has worked at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation. Since joining ANSTO he has worked in numerous areas of neutron scattering; predominantly relating to powder diffraction of magnetic materials and reflectometry of ultra-thin molecular films. He has published 70 scientific papers in the areas of surface chemistry, conducting and magnetic ceramics, coordination polymers and fullerene chemistry. Since 2003, Michael has held an Adjunct Associate Professorship at the University of New South Wales.