PhD Students

Jack McIlquham

Jack first came to CSIRO in 2019 as a project scientist for the Sensing and Sorting program within CSIRO Mineral Resources. His role as a lab technician and atomic physicist involved a combination of fundamental x-ray theory and experimentation, prototype analyser development for mineral and elemental identification, and on-going maintenance of analysers deployed in the field. Jack is currently a PhD student working on a joint project between UNSW and CSIRO on the potential application of machine learning to these areas, with a specific interest in quantifying the underlying spectra produced by various spectroscopy techniques. Jack also helps run the Machine Learning for Physical Systems co-learning group with Dan MacKinlay and Richard Scalzo.

Marcus is a PhD candidate studying with CSIRO and UNSW. Marcus works as a part of the X-ray Systems Team, developing X-ray technologies to provide accurate mineralogical analysis for mineral processing industries. Marcus holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of New South Wales, and his current research involves the design of compact XRD systems for extraterrestrial mineral analysis. Marcus is interested in using Monte-Carlo physics simulations to model X-ray analysis systems and using outputs to inform the design of real-world prototype analysers.