Dr Rachel Caruso

Position

CSIRO CEO Science Leader in the division of Materials Science and Engineering, and ARC Future Fellow in the School of Chemistry at the University of Melbourne.

Qualifications
•    ARC, Australian Research Fellow (2003-2009) School of Chemistry, University of Melbourne.
•    Inaugural Centenary Research Fellow (2003) University of Melbourne.
•    Group Leader (1999-2002) Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam Germany
•    Postdoctoral studies (1997) Hahn Meitner Institute, Berlin Germany, and (1998) Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Teltow Germany.
•    PhD (1997) the University of Melbourne.

Expertise
•    Materials chemistry.
•    Controlling the structure of metal oxide materials using novel templating techniques.

Key Areas of Research

•    Preparation of inorganic structures that possess very high porosities and high surface areas using a small scale templating technique.
•    Application of novel materials to environmental remediation and energy conversion or storage devices.

Selected Publications

Wang, XD; Mitchell, DRG; Prince, K; Atanacio, AJ; Caruso, RA. Chem. Mater. 2008, 20, 3917-3926.

Mitchell, DRG; Wang, XD; Caruso, RA. Micron, 2008, 39, 344-347.