Watson Laser Lab
The Watson Laser Lab is a broad physical chemistry research group at Curtin University with specialisations in gas-phase spectroscopy.
Latest News
The Watson Laser Lab have been awarded $20,000 to kickstart work in the group!
The group is excited to announce some award success as a recipient of a Early Career Researcher Grant from the Resources Technology and Critical Minerals Trailblazer with a value of $20,000! The grant process required submission of an EOI followed by pitching to potential industry partners.
Preliminary data collection on filters for PFAS compounds!
The group was excited to join some preliminary data collection alongside Forrest Foundation alumni Jacob Martin and student Callum Wood of the Curtin Carbon Group for a stint of beamtime at the Australian Synchrotron.
Big news coming out of ECU with the launch of the new Spectroscopy and Surface Science Research Facility!
It was great to join collaborators and dignitaries at the launch of the new Spectroscopy and Surface Science Research Facility at Edith Cowan University. Dr Duncan Wild is due to head up the spectroscopy arm of the facility, relocating his time-of-flight photoelectron spectrometer from UWA. This instrument (which Peter completed his PhD on), measures the energy conserved upon ejection of an electron from a chemical species when irradiated by laser light. In most work in the Wild Group, these case weakly bound van der Waals clusters. By approaching neutral molecules from their corresponding anion complex, these experiments provide insight into how gas phase reactions occur in our atmosphere.