Associate ProfessorAlessandra Sutti

Director, Institute for Frontier Materials

Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment/Institute for Frontier Materials

  • Director, Institute for Frontier Materials
    Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment/Institute for Frontier Materials
  • +61 3 522 71156 (Work)
  • Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus, 75 Pigdons Road, Waurn Ponds, Victoria 3216

TEACHING EXPERTISE

Materials science (chemistry, physics), solid state physics, soft matter
science, polymer chemistry.

Expertise Summary
Polymer science, fibre science, colloid chemistry, nanomaterials, gels and
hydrogels, self-assembly.
- Chemistry

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

  • UNIT TAUGHT
    SEM 111 - Elective modules: Biomaterials, Functional Materials
  • UNIT TAUGHT
    SLE 123 - Physics for the Life Sciences
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Volumetric additive manufacturing via projected light andtwo wavelength polymerisation
    Daniel John Whyte - School of Engineering
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Microfibrillation of Wool Fibres and Their Characterisation
    Elisha Bhattarai - Institute for Frontier Materials
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Fibrillation of Bacterial Cellulose, Its Characterisation and Applications
    Thabisile Brightwell Jele - Institute for Frontier Materials
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Design and investigation of durable self-healing epoxy coatings using dynamic boronic ester bonds.
    Dissanayake Mudiyanselage Dissanayake - Institute for Frontier Materials
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Analysing microfibres shedding from textiles
    Moni Sankar Mondal - Institute for Frontier Materials
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Detection and reduction of microplastic shedding in textile industries
    Md Imran Hossain - Institute for Frontier Materials
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Are Plastics Making Us Sick? Microplastics and The Immune System
    Telisia Jayne Smith - School of Life and Environmental Sciences
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Systematic Investigation of Fluorescent DyeSolvent Combinations for Enhanced Microplastic Detection
    Shahba Shirin Thenginthodi - Institute for Frontier Materials
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Electrospinning of Thermo-responsive PNIPAM based Hydrogel Nanofibres
    Jing Wang - Institute for Frontier Materials - 2012
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Short-nanofibre-based hierarchical structures for enzyme immobilisation
    Nishat Sharma - Institute for Frontier Materials - 2018
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    An Investigation into Short Polymer Fibre Production in Fluid Systems
    Keiran Pringle - Institute for Frontier Materials - 2018
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Production of short fibres from polymer melts
    Martina Di Venere - Institute for Frontier Materials - 2020
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Sericin and Laccase Hybrid Nanoflowers for the Biocatalytic Degradation of Ciprofloxacin in Water
    Divya Koshy - Institute for Frontier Materials - 2023
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Production and Characterisation of Alginate-Hydrogel-Based Short Fibres
    Dominic Andreas Renggli - Institute for Frontier Materials - 2023
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Fundamentals of Fibre Formation
    Anahita Rohanishirvan - Institute for Frontier Materials - 2026