"I'd heard that ANU was the best place in the southern hemisphere for research"

"My supervisor has been really supportive, don't underestimate how important that is"

"We're in a time where we no longer need to deal with what Nature gives us"

"As a child, I was constantly surrounded by strong female scientists in science fiction media."

"That moment was when I first realized how important my work was"

"When a star explodes, it travels through space, arrives on Earth, and settles on the ocean floor,"

"We are the first to bring the use of metasurfaces to the imaging of quantum entangled photons"

"There are already connections with a huge range of topics in physics, who's to say what's around the corner?"

"Every day I walk into the lab and find out new things"

As a kid Patrick McGlynn loved to take things apart and see how they worked, and then put them back together.

I fell in love with Australia. Every moment free I spend travelling