Dr Alexander Stilgoe

Research Fellow

School of Mathematics and Physics
Faculty of Science
stilgoe@physics.uq.edu.au
+61 7 334 69935

Overview

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland
  • Bachelor (Honours) of Science (Advanced), The University of Queensland

Publications

  • Stilgoe, Alexander, Kashchuk, Anatolii, Balanant, Marie Anne, Santangelo, Deborah, Nieminen, Timo, Sauret, Emilie, flower, robert and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina (2023). Tired and Stressed: Direct holographicquasi-static stretching of aging echinocytes anddiscocytes in plasma using optical tweezers. Biomedical Optics Express, 15 (2), 656-671. doi: 10.1364/boe.504779

  • Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina, Watson, Mark L., Favre-Bulle, Itia, Grant, Patrick, Nieminen, Timo A. and Stilgoe, Alexander B. (2023). Optical tweezers in mechanobiology. Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation XX: SPIE Nanoscience + Engineering, San Diego, CA United States, 20-25 August 2023. Bellingham, WA United States: SPIE. doi: 10.1117/12.2682972

  • Stilgoe, Alexander B., Gillies, Naran and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina (2023). Vector beam shaping for transverse angular momentum transfer. Complex Light and Optical Forces XVII, San Francisco, CA United States, 28 January - 3 February 2023. Bellingham, WA United States: International Society for Optical Engineering. doi: 10.1117/12.2657224

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Publications

Book Chapter

  • Kashchuk, Anatolii V., Bui, Ann A.M., Zhang, Shu, Houillot, Antoine, Carberry, David, Stilgoe, Alexander B., Nieminen, Timo A. and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina (2017). Optically driven rotating micromachines. Light robotics-structure-mediated nanobiophotonics. (pp. 99-128) edited by Jesper Glückstad and Darwin Palima. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-7020-7096-9.00004-5

  • Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina, Stilgoe, Alexander B., Preece, Darryl, Bui, Ann and Nieminen, Timo A. (2015). Optical forces, trapping and manipulation. Photonics: Scientific foundations, technology and applications. (pp. 287-339) edited by David L. Andrews. Hoboken, New Jersey, United States: Wiley. doi: 10.1002/9781119011781.ch7

  • Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina, Asavei, Theodor, Stilgoe, Alexander B., Loke, Vincent L. Y., Vogel, Robert, Nieminen, Timo A. and Heckenberg, Norman R. (2013). Design of optically driven microrotors. Optical Nano and Micro Actuator Technology. (pp. 277-306) edited by George K . Knopf and Yukitoshi Otani. Boca Raton, FL, USA: CRC Press. doi: 10.1201/b13892

Journal Article

Conference Publication

  • Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina, Watson, Mark L., Favre-Bulle, Itia, Grant, Patrick, Nieminen, Timo A. and Stilgoe, Alexander B. (2023). Optical tweezers in mechanobiology. Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation XX: SPIE Nanoscience + Engineering, San Diego, CA United States, 20-25 August 2023. Bellingham, WA United States: SPIE. doi: 10.1117/12.2682972

  • Stilgoe, Alexander B., Gillies, Naran and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina (2023). Vector beam shaping for transverse angular momentum transfer. Complex Light and Optical Forces XVII, San Francisco, CA United States, 28 January - 3 February 2023. Bellingham, WA United States: International Society for Optical Engineering. doi: 10.1117/12.2657224

  • Lenton, Isaac C., Nieminen, Timo A., Reece, Peter J., Stilgoe, Alexander B. and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina (2020). Direct Force Measurement with Reflective and Conductive Particles in Optical Tweezers. 14th Pacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO PR 2020), Sydney, NSW Australia, 3–5 August 2020. Washington, DC United States: Optical Society of America. doi: 10.1364/CLEOPR.2020.C12E_1

  • Lenton, Isaac C. D., Stilgoe, Alex B., Nieminen, Timo A. and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina (2020). Understanding particle trajectories by mapping optical force vortices. Complex Light and Optical Forces XIV, San Francisco, CA, United States, 1-6 February 2020. Bellingham, WA, United States: SPIE. doi: 10.1117/12.2550418

  • Lenton, Isaac C. D., Armstrong, Declan, Calvert-Lane, Jackson, Nieminen, Timo A., Stilgoe, Alexander B. and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina (2018). Measuring the motility and drag forces acting on biological particles using optical tweezers. Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation XV 2018, San Diego, CA, United States, 19-23 August 2018. Bellingham, WA, United States: SPIE. doi: 10.1117/12.2324117

  • Lenton, Isaac C. D., Bui, Ann A. M., Nieminen, Timo A., Stilgoe, Alexander B. and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina (2018). Optical tweezers toolbox: full dynamics simulations for particles of all sizes. Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation XV 2018, San Diego, CA, United States, 19-23 August 2018. Bellingham, WA, United States: SPIE. doi: 10.1117/12.2324120

  • Kashchuk, Anatolii V., Bui, Ann A. M., Stilgoe, Alexander B., Carberry, David M., Nieminen, Timo A. and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina H. (2016). Measurements of particle-wall interaction forces using simultaneous position and force detection (Conference Presentation). Conference on Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation XIII, San Diego, CA, United States, 28 August-1 September 2016. BELLINGHAM: SPIE. doi: 10.1117/12.2236419

  • Waleed, Muhammad, Taylor, Michael, Stilgoe, Alexander, Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina and Bowen, Warwick (2015). Enhanced optical trapping via structured scattering. Frontiers in Optics 2015, FIO 2015, San Jose, CA, United States, 18- 22 October 2015. Washington, DC, United States: OSA - The Optical Society. doi: 10.1364/FIO.2015.FW6B.4

  • Nieminen, Timo A., du Preez-Wilkinson, Nathaniel, Bui, Ann A. M., Stilgoe, Alexander B., Loke, Vincent L. Y. and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina (2015). Theory and practice of computational modeling and simulation of optical tweezers. Optical Trapping Applications, OTA 2015, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 12-15 April 2015. Washington, DC, United States: OSA - The Optical Society. doi: 10.1364/OTA.2015.OtM4E.5

  • Sadafi, M. H., Jahn, I., Stilgoe, A. B. and Hooman, K. (2014). An investigation of evaporation from single saline water droplets: experimental and theoretical approaches. 19th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 8-11 December 2014. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: RMIT University.

  • Khatibzadeh, Nima, Stilgoe, Alexander B., Bui, Ann A. M., Rocha, Yesenia, Cruz, Gladys, Nieminen, Timo A., Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina and Berns, Michael W. (2014). Optical trapping of isolated mammalian chromosomes. Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation XI, San Diego, CA., United States, 17-21 August 2014. Bellingham, WA, United States: SPIE. doi: 10.1117/12.2064367

  • Bui, Ann A. M., Stilgoe, Alexander B., Khatibzadeh, Nima, Nieminen, Timo A., Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina and Berns, Michael W. (2014). Optical tweezers escape forces. Conference on Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation XI, San Diego, CA United States, 17-21 August 2014. Bellingham, WA United States: S P I E - International Society for Optical Engineering. doi: 10.1117/12.2062805

  • Cao, Yongyin, Stilgoe, Alexander B., Stroet, Martin, Loke, Vincent L. Y., Chen, Lixue, Nieminen, Timo A. and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina (2012). Computational modelling of optical tweezers with many degrees of freedom using dynamic simulation: cylinders, nanowires, and multiple particles. Conference on Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation IX, San Diego, United States, 12-16 August 2012. Bellingham, WA, United States: S P I E - International Society for Optical Engineering. doi: 10.1117/12.930137

  • Stilgoe, Alexander B., Mallon, Michael J., Cao, Yongyin, Nieminen, Timo A. and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina (2012). Optical tweezers toolbox: better, faster, cheaper; choose all three. Conference on Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation IX, San Diego, United States, 12-16 August 2012. Bellingham, WA, United States: S P I E - International Society for Optical Engineering. doi: 10.1117/12.929365

  • Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina, Asavei, Theodor, Preece, Daryl, Stilgoe, Alexander B., Heckenberg, Norman R. and Nieminen, Timo A. (2011). Measurement of angular momentum flux in optical tweezers. Conference on Complex Light and Optical Forces V, San Francisco, CA, United States, 26-27 January 2011. Bellingham, WA, United States: S P I E - International Society for Optical Engineering. doi: 10.1117/12.886221

  • Nieminen, Timo A., Stilgoe, Alexander B., Heckenberg, Norman R. and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina (2011). Not just energy, but momentum and angular momentum too: Mechanical effects in scattering. Electromagnetic and Light Scattering Conference: ELS XIII 2011, Taormina, Italy, 26-30 September 2011. Messina, Italy: Accademia Peloritana dei Pericolanti. doi: 10.1478/C1V89S1P010

  • Stilgoe, Alexander B., Heckenberg, Norman R., Nieminen, Timo A. and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina (2011). Stability, scaling and temperature in double-well optical tweezers. International Quantum Electronics Conference, IQEC 2011 and Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO Pacific Rim 2011, Sydney, NSW Australia, 28 August - 1 September 2011. Piscataway, NJ United States: I E E E. doi: 10.1109/IQEC-CLEO.2011.6193985

  • Stilgoe, Alexander B., Nguyen, Lan T. P., Nieminen, Timo A. and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina (2011). Thermodynamics of optical tweezers. International Quantum Electronics Conference, IQEC 2011 and Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO Pacific Rim 2011, Sydney, NSW Australia, 28 August - 1 September 2011. Piscataway, NJ United States: I E E E. doi: 10.1109/IQEC-CLEO.2011.6194164

  • Nieminen, Timo A., Alexander Stilgoe, Heckenberg, Norman R. and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina (2010). Approximate and exact modeling of optical trapping. Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation VII, San Diego, CA, U.S.A., 1-5 August, 2010. United States of America: SPIE. doi: 10.1117/12.861880

  • Stilgoe, Alexander B., Nieminen, Timo, Heckenberg, Norman R. and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina (2009). To hop or not to hop-that is the question. ACOLS ACOFT 09, The University of Adelaide, 29/11/09 - 3/12/09. South Australia: The University of Adelaide.

  • Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina, Asavei, Theodor, Parkin, Simon, Stilgoe, Alex, Loke, Vince, Nieminen, Timo and Heckenberg, Norman (2008). Can optically driven micromachines be useful in biomedicine? Optical tweezers at work. Asia Optical Fiber Communication and Optoelectronic Exposition and Conference, AOE 2008, Shanghai, China, 30 October - 2 November 2008. Piscataway, NJ United States: I E E E.

Other Outputs

Grants (Administered at UQ)

PhD and MPhil Supervision

Current Supervision