Baohua Jia
Associate Professor
Swinburne University of Technology
Australia
Biography
Baohua Jia received her BSc and MSc degrees from Nankai University, China in 2000 and 2003 respectively. She was awarded a PhD in optics in 2007 from Swinburne University of Technology. Baohua has been working as a Project Manager/Project Leader for the Centre for Ultrahigh-bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS, an Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence) from 2006-13 managing the key flagship projects 3D bandgap confinement and Nanoplasmonic. Since 2010, Baohua has also been a Senior Research Fellow investigating the cutting-edge nanotechnology of solar cells. Her recent research findings have been highlighted in the MIT Technology Review with more than 150 media reports worldwide. Baohua has co-authored more than 160 publications in highly ranked journals and prestigious international conferences including Nature Photonics, Advanced Materials, Nano Letters, Optics Letters, Optics Express and Applied Physics Letter.
Research Interest
Baohua Jia research is focused on laser nanofabrication of novel photonic nanostructures, investigation of functionality and nonlinear effects inside 3D photonic nanostructures, development of active photonic devices facilitated with quantum dots, development of novel nanoplasmonic devices with laser nanofabrication, and employment of nanostructures and nanomaterials for solar energy related research.