Dr Bipina Dhal
Research & Teaching Fellow
Department of Imaging and Applied Physics
Phone: 61 8 9266 3532
Email: B.Dhal@curtin.edu.au
Bipin completed his PhD in 1998 at the Institute of Physics/Utkal University. His research work was on experimental X-ray spectroscopic studies from ion-atom and ion-solid interactions. He then worked at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai as a visiting scientist where he pursued his research investigation on electron transfer channel in ion-atom interaction.
In 1999 while working in India Bipin was awarded an Australian Postdoctoral Award (APDA) by the Australian Research Council (ARC) to work in collaboration with the X-ray optics group at the University of Melbourne. He focussed on high precession X-ray spectroscopic investigations on mid Z-elements using synchrotron radiations at the Australian National Beamline Facility (ANBF), the Photon Factory, Tsukuba, Japan and the Advanced Photon Source (APS) in Chicago. After successful completion of the project, in 2002 Bipin moved to Institute of Optics and Quantum Electronics at Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany to work on ultra-fast dynamics from laser produced fetmo-second X-ray pulses, where he was awarded an Alexander von-Humboldt foundation fellowship to work in Germany. He then returned to the University of Melbourne and in 2007 moved to Perth to take up his current academic position.
Bipin’s current research interests are on the synthesis and application of light metal Nano particles for hydrogen storage applications. He also focusses on fabrication and use of multi-varied combinatorial thin film (“hydrogenography”) applications. Another aspect of his research focus is on the use of supercritical solution for better sorption of hydrogen on light metal nano-structures and characterising them using X-ray and neutron scattering techniques.