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Tom Sobey

Curriculum Vitae

since 2011	Postdoctoral research in the group of Dr. Till Böcking, The University of New South Wales
2010 - 2011	Consultant at Altran Group Germany
2006 - 2010	Doctoral Thesis at the LMU München Supervisor: Prof. Friedrich Simmel, TU Munich
2005 - 2006	Business Analyst, Maritime Platforms Division, Defence Science and Technology Organisation (government defence organisation, 2300 staff), Melbourne, Australia
2004 - 2005	Research Assistant, Centre for Quantum Computer Technology, Sydney, Australia (Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence)
2002	Summer Semester at the University of Bonn, Germany
1999 - 2004	Bachelor of Science with First Class Honours (Physics) and Bachelor of Commerce (Finance), University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Dissertation

Self-assembly of Artificial DNA
Nano and Microscale Motifs
Dissertation, LMU Munich (2010) Thesis...

Publications

T. L. Sobey, S. Renner, F. C. Simmel:
"Protocols for self-assembly and imaging of DNA nanostructures"
Submitted book chapter, Humana Press.

C. Steinhauer, R. Jungmann, T. Sobey, F. C. Simmel, P. Tinnefeld:
"DNA Origami as a Nanoscopic Ruler for Super-Resolution Microscopy"
Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 48, 8870-8873 (2009).
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie.200903308

T. L. Sobey, S. Renner, F. C. Simmel:
"Assembly and melting of DNA nanotubes from single-sequence tiles"
Journal of Physics Condensed Matter, 21, 034112 (2009).
http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0953-8984/21/3/034112

R. Jungmann, T. Liedl, T. L. Sobey, W. Shih, and F. C. Simmel:
"Isothermal assembly of DNA origami structures using denaturing agents"
Journal of the American Chemical Society, 130, 10062-10063 (2008).
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ja8030196

T. Liedl, T. L. Sobey, et al.:
"DNA-based nanodevices"
Nano Today, 2007. 2(2): p. 36-41.
doi:10.1016/S1748-0132(07)70057-9

T. L. Sobey, S. Renner, F. C. Simmel:
"Microcharacterization of semiconductor device materials using Kelvin Probe Microscopy"
Microscopy and Microanalysis, 13, 188 (2007).
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1431927607077392

C. E. Yasin, T. L. Sobey, et al.:
"Interaction correction to the longitudinal conductivity and Hall resistivity in high-quality two-dimensional GaAs electron and hole systems"
Physical Review B 72(24) (2005).
doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.72.241310