Dr Richard Frederick Garrett,Facility Director,
Australian Synchrotron Research Program.
Brief CV: Qualifications and Current Appointment:
B.Sc.(Hons. I) 1978 ANU; Ph.D. 1984 University of Newcastle;
Current Position: Facility Director, Australian Synchrotron Research Program.
Relevant Employment History:
1984-85 Post Doctoral Fellow, SUNY at Stony Brook, NY, USA, posted at National Synchrotron Light Source;
1985-1991 Scientist, National Synchrotron Light Source, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, USA;
1991-1996 Principal Research Scientist, ANSTO: Leader, Australian National Beamline project at the Photon Factory, Japan;
1996-2001 Scientific Manager, Australian Synchrotron Research Program.
2002- present, Senior Principal Research Scientist, ANSTO.
Brief summary of expertise and significant research achievements:
Operate and/or own shares in overseas synchrotron beamlines:
- the Australian National Beamline Facility, Photon Factory, Japan
- BioCARS protein crystallography beamlines at the Advanced
Photon Source, USA
- ChemMatCARS materials science beamline at the Advanced Photon
Source, USA
- Xray Operations and Research beamlines at the Advanced Photon
- Soft X-ray, micro-machining and infra-red beamlines at the
NSRRC, Taiwan
International linkages: As above.
Students and postdocs likely to be involved in or use the Network:
ASRP user community
Website:
http://www.ansto.gov.au/natfac/index.html
Relevant publications (1997-):
1. "Characterisation of Ceramic materials with the BigDiff
Synchrotron Radiation Debye-Scherrer Powder Diffractometer",
B. H. Oconnor, A. van Riessen, J. Carter, G. Burton, R. F. Garrett
and D. J. Cookson, J. American Chemical Soc. 80 (1997) 1373.
2. Time-resolved Grazing Incidence Diffraction Studies of
Thin Films using an Imaging Plate Camera and Focussing Monochromator,
G. J. Foran, I. R. Genlte, R. F. Garrett and D. C. Creagh,
J. Synchrotron Rad. 5 (1998) 107.
3. "An Energy Dispersive Time Resolved Liquid Surface
Reflectometer", R. F. Garrett, J. W. White, D. King, T. Dowling
and W. Fullagar, Nucl. Instrum. Methods A. 467-468(2001) 998
4. "Synchrotron X-ray Microprobe Analysis of Radioactive Trace
Elements in Mineral Sands", R. F. Garrett, N. Blagojevic, Z. Cai,
B. Lai, D. Legnini, W. Rodriguez and A. Stampfl, Nucl. Instrum.
Methods A. 467-468 (2001) 897.
5. "Octadecyl Trimethylammonium Templated Silicate Fulme:
In-Plane Structure." S. A. Holt, J. L. Ruggles, J. W. White and
R. F. Garrett, Journal of Physical Chemistry B 106 (2002) 2330.
6. "An Introduction to EXAFS", R. F. Garrett and G. J. Foran,
in "Surface Analysis Methods in Materials Science", Eds D. J. O'Connor,
B. A. Sexton & R. St. C. Smart, Springer Verlag, 2003 ISBN 3-540-41330-8.
