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Professor Richard Tilley is the Director of Electron Microscope Unit at UNSW. His research is focused on the solution synthesis of nanoparticles for applications ranging from catalysis to biomedical imaging. He graduated with a Masters of Chemistry from Oxford University and did his PhD in the Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, UK, after which he was a Postdoctoral Fellow for two years at the Toshiba basic R&D Center, Japan. He spent 10 years in New Zealand in the School of Chemical and Physical Sciences at Victoria University of Wellington and became Deputy Head of School and an Associate Professor. He was also a Principle Investigator in the MacDiarmid Institute. In 2015 he joined the University of New south Wales as Director of the Electron Microscope Unit and a Professor in the School of Chemistry.