Profile
Sarah Walden
- Lecturer
- Griffith University
- s.walden@griffith.edu.au
- @sarah-walden-4bb08913a
- @swaldenwebb
Research Interests
- Nanophotonics
- Photoresponsive materials
- Photoswitches
- Photolithography
- Nonlinear optics
Education
- PhD, Queensland University of Technology
- Bachelor of Applied Science (Honours), Queensland University of Technology
- Bachelor of Applied Science (Physics), Queensland University of Technology
- Bachelor of Mathematics, Queensland University of Technology
Achievements & Awards
- AIP Bragg Medal Nominee - Queensland Branch
- Selected to attend 69th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting
- QUT Centre for Materials Science Award for Excellence - Early Career Researcher
- QUT Faculty of Science Early or Mid-Career Educator of the year
- QUT Centre for Materials Science Award for Excellence - Leadership and Engagement
Themes
- Manipulate
Sarah is a lecturer in the School of Environment and Science investigating tuneable nanophotonic devices using stimuli-responsive materials. In 2017 she completed a PhD at QUT, investigating the nonlinear optical properties of semiconductor nanoparticles for which she received the Queensland nomination for the AIP Bragg Gold Medal. After her PhD, Sarah became a Postdoctoral Fellow on a joint project between the Soft Matter Materials Laboratory at QUT and the Nanophotonics group at the Karsluhe Institute of Technology, investigating new materials for sub-diffraction resolution lithography. In 2022, Sarah commenced a Zukunfts Fellowship in the group of Isabelle Staude at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, where she applied stimuli-responsive polymers for tuneable metasurface devices.
Current Projects
- Dynamic tuning of metasurfaces resonances with stimuli responsive polymers