People

  • May 2025: (l-r) Holly Baldock, David Huang, Huong Nguyen
  • May 2024: (l-r) Holly Baldock, Huong Nguyen, David Huang
  • May 2023: (l-r) Siyuan He, Holly Baldock, Huong Nguyen, David Huang
  • September 2022: (l-r) Siyuan He, Marltan Wilson, Huong Nguyen, David Huang
  • September 2021: (l-r) Marltan Wilson, Özgür Çekmer, Huong Nguyen, Belinda Boehm, David Huang
  • November 2019: (l-r) Rohan Hudson, Huong Nguyen, Belinda Boehm, Alex Stuart, Marltan Wilson, David Huang
  • March 2018: (back l-r) Elisabeth Schrefl, Andrew Tarzia, Daniel Rankin; (front l-r) Belinda Boehm, Alex Stuart, Huong Nguyen, David Huang
  • March 2017: (back l-r) Daniel Rankin, Andrew Tarzia, Elisabeth Schrefl; (front l-r) Hanieh Ghodrati, Belinda Boehm, Alex Stuart, David Huang
  • March 2016: (back l-r) Andrew Tarzia, Patrick Tapping, Harrison Waugh, Louis Ritchie, Daniel Rankin; (front l-r) Sophia Ackling, Hanieh Ghodrati, Belinda Boehm, Alex Stuart, David Huang
  • March 2015: (l-r) David Huang, Patrick Tapping, Andrew Tarzia, Daniel Rankin, Sophia Ackling
  • April 2014: (l-r) Charlie Whidborne, Andrew Tarzia, Patrick Tapping, David Huang
  • July 2013: (l-r) David Huang, Simon Blacket, Patrick Tapping, Alex Button

Current Members

Group Leader

Dr David M Huang is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at the University of Adelaide. He received his BSc (Hons) degree in Physical Chemistry from the University of Sydney and his PhD in Theoretical Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, where he was a Fulbright Scholar. After a stint as a freelance copy editor for Springer, he carried out postdoctoral research at the University of Lyon, then at the University of California, Davis, before beginning his independent research career at The University of Adelaide in 2010.

Graduate students (principal supervision)

Graduate students (co-supervision)

Zi Goh (PhD, with Tak Kee)
Nina Prerad (MPhil, with Tak Kee)
Harrison McAfee (PhD, with Tak Kee)
Gerardo Urbina (PhD, with Tara Pukala)
Andrew Dolan (PhD, with Tak Kee)

Former Members

Postdocs

Siyuan He (2022–2023)
Özgür Çekmer (2021–2022)

PhD students (principal supervision)

Huong Nguyen (2024)
Marltan Wilson (2023)
Belinda Boehm (2022)

PhD students (co-supervision)

Jessica De La Perrelle (2025, with Tak Kee)
Hywel Bennett (2025, with Anthony Zander, Ben Cazzolato)
Alexandra Stuart (2024, with Tak Kee)
Alexander Begbie (2022, with Tara Pukala)
Rohan Hudson (2022, with Tak Kee)
Mohammad Babazadeh (2022, with Paul Burn (University of Queensland))
Andrew Tarzia (2019, with Christian Doonan)
Patrick Tapping (2017, with Tak Kee)
Md Ayub (2016, with Anthony Zander, Ben Cazzolato, Carl Howard)
Jack Evans (2016, with Christian Doonan, Chris Sumby)

MPhil students (principal supervision)

Holly Baldock (2025)
Huong Nguyen (2019)
Daniel Rankin (2019)
Belinda Boehm (2018)
Sophia Ackling (2017)

MPhil students (co-supervision)

Zi Goh (2024, with Tak Kee)
Harrison McAfee (2024, with Tak Kee)
Jessica De La Perrelle (2020, with Tak Kee)
Elisabeth Schrefl (2019, with Tak Kee)
Alexandra Stuart (2018, with Tak Kee)

Honours students

Harrison Waugh (Honours 2016)
Daniel Rankin (Honours 2015)
Andrew Tarzia (Honours 2014, with Christian Doonan)
Charlie Whidborne (Honours 2014, with Tara Pukala)
Simon Blacket (Honours 2013)
Alex Button (Honours 2013, with Tara Pukala)
Mathew James (Honours 2013)
Kaustubh Naik (Honours 2012)
Kyra Schwarz (Honours 2011, with Tak Kee)
Ming Chiu (Honours 2011)