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Professor Erol Harvey - CEO, MiniFAB Aust Pty Ltd Originally trained as a physicist, his postdoctoral work was as Operations Manager of the SPRITE Ultra high power excimer laser facility of the SERC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory near Oxford. In 1990 he moved to Exitech Limited, a spin-out company from the Rutherford Laser Facility, where he was Principal Development Engineer and Head of System Design and Fabrication of the Advanced Excimer Laser Micromachining systems. In this role he worked closely with customers around the world developing commercial applications of excimer laser micromachining. Examples of some industrial development projects Prof. Harvey worked on include ink jet printer nozzles, bio medical devices, thin flim transistor annealing for advanced lap-top computer LCD displays, ultra-high density electronic packaging, the first Hubble Space Telescope Rescue Mission, 248 / 193 nm lithography for sub-0.18µm Semiconductor fabrication, hard disk fabrication, thin film deposition, solar panels and packaging applications for the pharmaceutical industry. After returning to Australia he was part of the founding team for the CRC for microTechnology, a 7-year $70M collaborative research co-operative involving local and multinational companies, government and universities. Professor Harvey is currently the Deputy Director (R&D) at the Industrial Research Institute Swinburne (IRIS) of Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. He has also partnered to form a spin-out company, MiniFAB (Aust) Pty Ltd. MiniFAB Australia Pty Ltd MiniFAB, the micro-nano-bio company, offers customized manufacturing and advanced product development. Our business is the design, integration and manufacture of polymer microengineered systems for biotech, health, agri-food, and aerospace industries. Services include: system and product design; process engineering and manufacturing; product development (microfluidic components and systems, bioreactors, biosensors); project management. MiniFAB’s technology enables the simplified manufacturing of products using batch processing, mass replication techniques, minimal types of materials and numbers of components. These techniques lead to reduced manufacturing costs, increased product reliability and the development of low cost disposable devices, creating a competitive advantage for products in the market place. MiniFAB uniquely turns ideas rapidly into solutions, giving customers faster insight into the impact of new designs and product development. Specifically, for the Biotech sector, we offer novel solutions for the integration of biosensors and other bio-handling and manipulation devices into systems for new product development.
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Dr Terry Turney – Director, CSIRO Nanotechnology Centre, Co-Chairman Asia Nano Forum Fellow Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Royal Australian Chemical Institute Nanotechnology Expertise & Achievements: Research and Commercial Expertise – Molecular and nanocomposite materials (especially from clays and other layered systems), mechanically activated chemical processing and ultrafine milling, heterogeneous catalytic processes, inorganic solid-state chemistry, pigment production, nanostructure membranes. Development of several nanocomposite products and nanoparticle formulations in the marketplace. Policy Initiatives – Establishment of CSIRO Nanotechnology Centre, organiser and chair of 1st Australian Nanotechnology Conference, organising committee member of several other advisory committees for undergraduate nanotechnology courses within Australian Universities, co-organiser of NanoHouse Initiative Patents and Publications – Total of 24 patents or applications in areas of catalysis, active packaging of horticultural produce, powder processing and minerals processing. Over 80 publications in areas of inorganic synthesis, powder processing, materials and process characterisation, homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis, biomaterials, clay science and nanocomposite materials. Awards – CSIRO Medal for Scientific Research 2002 and RACI Process Chemistry Award 1997. CSIRO Manufacturing and Infrastructure Technology CSIRO Manufacturing & Infrastructure Technology (CMIT) was formed in July 2002 through the integration of the CSIRO divisions of Building, Construction & Engineering and Manufacturing Science & Technology. Now one of CSIRO's largest divisions, CMIT has a turnover of over $80 million, with more than 500 specialist staff (350 in research) and laboratories in four states, placed to serve the needs of manufacturing and infrastructure industries. The division's science is organised around ten core capabilities: Thermal & Fire Science, Fluid Dynamics, Metallurgy, Urban Systems Integration, Decision Systems, Optics & Diffraction, Ionic & Electronic Materials, Soft Matter, Interfacial Science Sensing and Interpretation. CMIT is accelerating growth in all its core capabilities through alliances with key science partners in the academic, research and business domains.
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