STAFF PROFILE
Dr Gail Iles
Position:
Lecturer - Physics
College / Portfolio:
School of Science Cluster
School / Department:
Physics
Phone:
+61 3 9925 2610
Email:
gail.iles@rmit.edu.au
Campus:
Melbourne City Campus
Research interests
- Magnetic nanoparticles
- Magnetic thin films
- Neutron and X-ray diffraction and spectroscopy
- Instrumentation design and manufacture
- Microgravity phenomena
Awards
- WISE Champion Award - Awarded to organisations and individuals who have particularly inspired girls and young women into STEM education and related careers. Unlimited Theatre was awarded for a wide programme of work between 2010-11 with Dr Gail Iles, UKRC in association with EADS, 2011
- Bronze Medal - Awarded for 500 Parabolas flown onboard the A300 Zero-G Airbus, Novespace, 2011
- External Research Fellowship - based in Grenoble (France), European Space Agency, 2007
Teaching responsibilities
- 3rd Year Nuclear Physics co-lecturer
- 1st Year Applied Sciences co-lecturer
- Honours Year Science research project supervisor
- PhD, Experimental Condensed Matter Physics, University of Leicester (UK), 2007
- BSc (Hons), Physics, Open University (UK), 2003
- Further and Adult Education Teachers Certificate, North Warwickshire and Hinckley College (UK), 2002
- BTEC Management Studies, Matthew Boulton College (UK), 2001
- Instrument Scientist at ANSTO, Sydney (Australia), 2014-2017
- Instrument Scientist at HZB, Berlin (Germany), 2012 - 2014
- Astronaut Instructor at European Astronaut Centre, Cologne (Germany) 2010 - 2011
- Iles, G. (2017). High-flux metal vapor cell In: Gas-Phase Synthesis of Nanoparticles, John Wiley and Sons, Weinheim, Germany
- Gates, W.,Aldridge, L.,Carnero-Guzman, G.,Mole, R.,Yu, D.,Iles, G.,Klapproth, A.,Bordallo, H. (2017). Water desorption and absorption isotherms of sodium montmorillonite: A QENS study In: Applied Clay Science, 147, 97 - 104
- Wang, P.,ILES, G.,Mole, R.,Yu, D.,Wen, X.,Aguey-Zinsou, K.,Santosh, S.,Conibeer, G. (2017). Hot carrier transfer processes in nonstoichiometric titanium hydride In: Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 56, 1 - 7