ProfessorXavier Conlan

Professor

Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment/School of Life and Environmental Sciences/Centre for Sustainable Bioproducts

  • Professor
    Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment/School of Life and Environmental Sciences/Centre for Sustainable Bioproducts
  • +61 3 522 71416 (Work)
  • Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus, 75 Pigdons Road, Waurn Ponds, Victoria 3216

TEACHING EXPERTISE

Chemistry (General)

Physical Chemistry

Analytical Chemistry

Forensic Science

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

  • UNIT TAUGHT
    SLE 133 Chemistry in Our World
  • UNIT TAUGHT
    SLE 210 Chemistry the Enabling Science
  • UNIT TAUGHT
    SLE 313 Forensic Analysis and Interpretation
  • UNIT TAUGHT
    SLE 316 Analytical Chemistry ( Mass Spectrometry)
  • UNIT TAUGHT
    SLE213 Introduction to Spectroscopic Principles (Mass Spectrometry)
  • UNIT TAUGHT
    SLE112 Fundamentals of Forensic Science (Explosives and Drugs)
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Investigating Methods of Flavour Manipulation in Australian Farmed Barramundi
    Hannah Redmond - School of Life and Environmental Sciences
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Antioxidant Compounds From Australian Fucoid Seaweeds
    Flora Mai-Lan Made Lam Kim - School of Life and Environmental Sciences
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Analytical Approaches to Emerging Contaminants Impacting Aquatic Birds
    Irin Sultana - School of Life and Environmental Sciences
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    An investigation into the interactions between gunshot residue and forensically relevant blowflies.
    Michaela Storen - School of Life and Environmental Sciences
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Improving Hydrogel Membrane Function Through Graphene OxideAmino Acid Interactions
    Chinnu Maria Baby - School of Life and Environmental Sciences
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Identification of Psychedelic Compounds in Australian Acacia Species
    Louise Mary O'Grady - School of Life and Environmental Sciences
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Evaluation of diatoms in drownings to ensure accurate forensic interpretations
    Michelle Amy Marshall - School of Life and Environmental Sciences
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Investigation into fabric impact on DNA transfer and recovery
    Tia Rose Beveridge - School of Life and Environmental Sciences
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Development of sustained release formulation of GLP analogues and in-vitro release trends of polymeric Microsphere
    Priya Akotiya - School of Life and Environmental Sciences
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Using SuFEx chemistry to functionalise naphthalimides: scope and potential applications
    THOMAS BUSSAU - School of Life and Environmental Sciences
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Semiochemicals of Lucilia cuprina and Where to Find Them in Flystrike
    Theophilus Rama - School of Life and Environmental Sciences
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Liquid Chromatography-MassSpectrometry to the Rescue: Exposing Fire Accelerants via Non-Volatile Markers
    Kaitlyn Maree Beeby - School of Life and Environmental Sciences
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    New Approaches to Chemically Masking Illicit Drugs and Controlled Precursors
    Samantha Iacuone - School of Life and Environmental Sciences
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Molecular Orchestrators of Natural Sex Change in Fish
    Megan Mumar Soria - School of Life and Environmental Sciences
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Arson etiquette: identifying accelerants in complex samples and highlighting behaviour of arsonists.
    Anastasia Bickley - School of Life and Environmental Sciences
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    DMT in acacia plants
    Emily Nicholson - School of Life and Environmental Sciences
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Profiling Secondary Metabolites of Plant Roots Inoculated with Phytophthora cinnamomi
    Tiffany Gunning - School of Life and Environmental Sciences - 2010
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Investigations into Reactions Involving Manganese (IV) Chemiluminescence
    Allyson Brown - School of Life and Environmental Sciences - 2010
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    The Determination of Bioactives Using Multidimensional Separation and Detection Systems
    Tiffany Goodie - School of Life and Environmental Sciences - 2012