Nigel Spooner

Professor Nigel Spooner

Professor (Physics)

School of Physics, Chemistry and Earth Sciences

College of Science

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.

Professor Nigel Spooner was awarded a DPhil (Physics, Oxon) in 1993, following which he relocated to establish and head the “Luminescence Dating Laboratory” (LDL) at RSES, Australian National University, Australia. Research focussed on environmental dosimetry utilising luminescence induced in artificial and naturally-occurring environmental materials by ionising radiation from natural and man-made sources in the environment. Work included elucidation of the physics and phenomenology of thermoluminescence (TL) and optically-stimulated luminescence (OSL) from these materials for dosimetry, the development of Luminescence Dating (TL & Optical Dating) protocols, and the invention of apparatus for environmental dosimetry research and application. Devices included the world’s first commercially-manufactured Optical Dating system, including luminescence readers, automated alpha particle and beta particle irradiators and specialised calibration facilities, in collaboration with Littlemore Scientific Engineering (Elsec), Oxfordshire, UK. Applications included the use of TL and Optical Dating for “retrospective dosimetry” (Dose Reconstruction) in the modern era. A key focus of the LDL was reaching into past times using radiometric dating: Optical Dating in particular had “broken through” to gain recognition as a major new chronological technique. This enabled the team to address major questions in geomorphology, soil science, palaeohydrology, archaeology and palaeontology, leading to numerous publications including cover articles in the journals Nature and Science.Nigel transferred to DST Group in 2002, from where he initiated the joint DST Group-University of Adelaide Luminescence program from 2004. This was later incorporated as a founding element of the successful Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing (IPAS), and was renamed the “The Prescott Environmental Luminescence Laboratory” (PELL). The PELL boasts a globally-unique suite of instruments for luminescence analysis, radiation exposure detection and radiometric dating. Activity areas include retrospective dosimetry, radiation detection technology development including a novel class of radiation-sensitive optical fibres and single-sand-grain Optical Dating apparatus, TL research, and environmental radioisotope and dose-rate measurement. The laboratory possesses world-leading technology, hosting the most sensitive TL spectrometer, and the world’s most sensitive radiogenic luminescence imaging technology for spatially-resolved OSL & TL imaging.Nigel's innovation and research leadership has broadened since 2014 from Radiation S&T and Luminescence Dosimetry & Geochronology to since also focus on the key new research field of “Novel Fluorescence (NF)”. In 2013 in response to the absence of field-deployable technologies capable of real time mineral species-specific identification in mining and mineral processing, he initiated the “Novel Fluorescence” research program for material-specific characterisation. This commenced with funding from CRC Optimising Resource Extraction (CRC ORE), pioneering new photonics technology for material detection, identification and quantification for mining and mineral processing. The facility includes integrated multiple synchronised laser excitation systems and UV to MWIR spectral detection, enabling “Upconversion Fluorescence” (UF) and “conventional” single-photon fluorescence to be analysed in unstudied or little-studied regimes of excitation & emission wavelength and temperature. It is now the world’s-leading laboratory pioneering “novel” forms of fluorescence for resource discovery and selective mining in both the terrestrial and off-Earth contexts. The huge potential of the NF discoveries is leading to multiple opportunities for commercialisation (spin-out, www.TeraGlo.io) and is expected to have significant real-world impact. These include sensors for asbestos, lithium ore (spodumene), phosphate minerals, heavy minerals and key REE’s. The Defence “Next Generation Technology Fund” has supported research into sensing explosives and chemicals, and the Australian Space Agency supports NF for real-time non-contact sensors capable of mineral species discrimination deployment for in situ Space Resource Assessment & Utilisation. NF identifies mineral and organic species rather than their component elements, including tiny proportions of target materials in complex environments, which will be critical for future resource assessment in the off-Earth environment and for subsequent remote mineral processing and manufacturing control.

 

From 2015 I have attracted more than $32M in research funding. This included roles as two Chief Investigator on 2 x ARC Research Training Centres, 1x ARC Research Hub, 2 x Cooperative Research Centre and 1 x CRC-P projects and $5M from Defence programs. I have successfully secured research facility funding and fostered collaboration with various industries, including mining and mineral processing, Defence and National Security (CBRN), and health and medical, resulting in successful research programs leading to publications, HDR student graduations and commercialisation endeavours. I am the University of Adelaide lead for the new Australian Research Council Industrial Transformation Training Centre “RadInnovate” (IC230100036), a 5-year Centre partnering ANU & UniSA and commencing in 2024; my role is Pillar Lead for “Radiation Innovation”, one of three Pillars in this ITTC, and Principal/Co-Supervisor of 6-8 ITTC RadInnovate HDR students.

My innovation and research leadership focused on the following three key areas: “Novel Fluorescence (NF)”, Radiation S&T and Luminescence Dosimetry & Geochronology:

Novel Fluorescence: I am the pioneer to use new photonics technology for material detection, identification and quantification using “Upconversion fluorescence” (UF). The Prescott Environmental Luminescence Laboratory” (PELL) has integrated multiple synchronised UV to MIR-tuneable OPO laser excitation systems, with cryogenic-to-elevated temperature sample stages and UV to MWIR detection, now enabling both UF and “conventional” single-photon fluorescence to be analysed in little-studied regimes of wavelength and temperature. Since 2015 this has grown to be the world’s leading facility for these novel approach to fluorescence materials sensing.

Radiation S&T: PELL houses world-leading luminescence detection apparatus for kinetics analysis, TL spectral analysis and Photon-counting Imaging, and developmental technologies in novel radiation sensitive optical fibres for alpha and beta particle detection, drone-borne radiation field intensity sensors, and extensive capability for naturally-source radiopharmaceutical radioisotope extraction, from natural sources such as radioactive mine waste. Spinning-off from the PELL’s leading regional capability, in 2019 I created the industry-focussed Centre for Radiation Research, Education and Innovation (CRREI) as a radiation-focussed centre also delivering radiation education courses targeting a critical skills gap. CRREI is now expanding into radiation biology for health, Defence and Space purposes. 

Luminescence Dosimetry & Geochronology: The PELL’s unique research suite includes the world-leading “3D-TL” Spectrometer and Photon Counting Imaging System (PCIS), along with nine Risoe OSL/TL readers, state of the art beta counters, twelve alpha spectrometers, seven HPGe gamma ray spectrometers, alpha particle detection technology and calibrated alpha, beta and photon irradiation facilities. These support an extensive Single-grain Optical Dating program applied to both academic collaboration and fee-for service SG-OSL dating.

Date Position Institution name
2019 - ongoing Founder, Deputy Director ARC Training Centre for Radiation and Innovation (CRREI)
2018 - ongoing Professor, Physics University of Adelaide
2009 - 2018 Adjunct Professor, Luminescence University of Adelaide
2002 - 2018 Senior Research Scientist Defence Science and Technology Group (DSTG)
1993 - 2002 Head, Luminescence Laboratory Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS), Australian National University (ANU)

Date Type Title Institution Name Country Amount
2023 Award Secretary's Award for Long Service Australian Public Service Australia -
2007 Award First DSTG-University Joint Professorship The University of Adelaide Australia -

Language Competency
English Can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review

Date Institution name Country Title
2009 University of Melbourne Australia Graduate Certificate in Scientific Leadership (1st class)
1993 University of Oxford United Kingdom DPhil
1987 University of Adelaide Australia MSc
1980 University of Adelaide Australia BSc Hons

Year Citation
2025 Tran, Q. D., Spooner, N., Geoghehan, S., Thavarajah, S. R., Rahman, S., Tran, N. N., . . . Hessel, V. (2025). Cosmic-Ray Radiation Effects on Ibuprofen Tablet Formulation Inside and Outside of the International Space Station. Advanced Healthcare Materials, 14(4), 16 pages.
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2025 Williams, O. M., & Spooner, N. A. (2025). Charge carrier release mechanisms underlying the emission of alkali feldspar infrared stimulated luminescence. Radiation Measurements, 181, 10 pages.
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2025 Matthews, R. L., Fusco, D. A., Gully, G. A., Arnold, L. J., Demuro, M., Spooner, N. A., . . . Prideaux, G. J. (2025). Kiana Cliff: a new fossil vertebrate site of probable last interglacial age from Eyre Peninsula, South Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 149(1), 108-138.
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2025 Westell, C., Roberts, A., Spooner, N. A., & McDonnell, K. (2025). The Monoman-Coonambidgal boundary: a transformation in the physical and cultural landscapes of the Murray River in South Australia. TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA, 149(2), 31 pages.
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2025 Westell, C., Roberts, A., Morley, M. W., Moffat, I., Hernandez, V. C., Spooner, N. A., . . . Petchey, F. (2025). Life beyond the lakes: An analysis and implications of a Pleistocene combustion feature on the Pike River in South Australia. Journal of Archaeological Science, 180, 106264.
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2025 Wei, Y., de Prinse, T., Pan, X., Schartner, E. P., Tansu, N., Elgammal, R., . . . Ebendorff-Heidepriem, H. (2025). Comparison of Glass Material and Laser Excitation Regime for Upconversion-Based 3D Volumetric Display. ADVANCED PHOTONICS RESEARCH, 6(11), 8 pages.
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2025 Way, A. M., Nejman, L., Hughes, P., Lisá, L., Wright, D., Nývltová Fišáková, M., . . . Sůvová, Z. (2025). Re-excavation of cultural deposits at Švédův stůl cave in the Moravian Karst, Czech Republic. Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, 67, 105449.
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2024 Spooner, N., Williams, O. M., & Questiaux, D. G. (2024). Pulsed Infrared Stimulated Luminescence Measurements for Mechanism Studies in Feldspars. Radiation Measurements, 170, 11 pages.
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2023 Williams, O. M., & Spooner, N. (2023). Quartz Defect Pair Model for Exo-Electron Emission. Radiation Measurements, 161, 7 pages.
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2023 Karami, A., de Prinse, T. J., Spooner, N. A., Kidd, S. P., Sumby, C. J., & Bi, J. (2023). UV emission from lanthanide-doped upconversion nanoparticles in super-resolution microscopy: potential for cellular damage. ACS Applied Nano Materials, 6(8), 7031-7043.
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2023 Moffatt, J. E., de Prinse, T. J., Tsiminis, G., Klantsataya, E., Payten, T. B., Teixeira, L. D. S., . . . Spooner, N. A. (2023). Infrared emission from calcium fluoride anion defects observed in synthetic material and natural fluorites. Optical Materials, 142, 114012.
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2022 Williams, O. M., & Spooner, N. (2022). Quartz Mid-Temperature Thermoluminescence Configurational Coordinate Model. Radiation Measurements, 150, 1-6.
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2022 De Prinse, T., Klantsataya, E., Tsiminis, G., Payten, T., Moffatt, J., Kee, T. W., & Spooner, N. A. (2022). Multiphoton phosphorescence of simple ketones by visible-light excitation and its consideration for active sensing in space. Journal of Fluorescence, 32(3), 1051-1057.
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2022 Ginzburg, D., Eliyahu, I., Spooner, N., Sterenberg, M., Reshes, G., Shapiro, A., . . . Hershkovich, D. (2022). Search for Experimental Evidence of Dose-Rate and Wall Scattering Effects in The Thermoluminescence Response of LiF:Mg,Ti (TLD-100).. Radiation protection dosimetry, 198(4), 222-228.
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2022 Williams, O. M., Spooner, N., & Smith, B. W. (2022). The Role of Oxygen Vacancies in Quartz Luminescence. Radiation Measurements, 154, 1-8.
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2022 de Prinse, T., Armitt, D., Rogers, B., & Spooner, N. A. (2022). Stability of explosives under continued laser pulse exposure. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF ENERGETIC MATERIALS, 83(3), 65-70.
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2022 Shaw, R. E., Kalnins, C. A. G., Whittaker, C. A., Moffatt, J. E., Tsiminis, G., Klantsataya, E., . . . Ebendorff-Heidepriem, H. (2022). Impact of rare earth doping on the luminescence of lanthanum aluminum silicate glasses for radiation sensing. Optical Materials Express, 12(9), 3621-3637.
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2021 Kalnins, C. A. G., Ottaway, D., Cook, N. J., & Spooner, N. A. (2021). Quantification of radionuclide distribution and migration during Cu-(Fe)-sulphide mineral processing by alpha particle autoradiography. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 228, 1-6.
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2021 Ram, R., Kalnins, C., Pownceby, M. I., Ehrig, K., Etschmann, B., Spooner, N., & Brugger, J. (2021). Selective radionuclide co-sorption onto natural minerals in environmental and anthropogenic conditions. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 409, 124989-1-124989-13.
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2021 de Prinse, T. J., Karami, A., Moffatt, J. E., Payten, T. B., Tsiminis, G., Teixeira, L. D. S., . . . Spooner, N. A. (2021). Dual Laser Study of Non-Degenerate Two Wavelength Upconversion Demonstrated in Sensitizer-Free NaYF₄:Pr Nanoparticles. Advanced Optical Materials, 9(7), 2001903-1-2001903-7.
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2021 Moffatt, J. E., Tsiminis, G., Klantsataya, E., Henderson-Sapir, O., Smith, B. W., Spooner, N. A., & Ottaway, D. J. (2021). In-fiber measurement of the erbium-doped ZBLAN ⁴I₁₃⁄₂ state energy transfer parameter. Journal of the Optical Society of America B, 38(2), 415-419.
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2021 Ram, R., Owen, N. D., Kalnins, C., Cook, N. J., Ehrig, K., Etschmann, B., . . . Brugger, J. (2021). Understanding the mobility and retention of uranium and its daughter products. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 410, 124553-1-124553-15.
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2021 Moffatt, J. E., Payten, T. B., Tsiminis, G., De Prinse, T. J., Teixeira, L., Klantsataya, E., . . . Spooner, N. A. (2021). Upconversion Fluorescence in Naturally Occurring Calcium Fluoride. Applied spectroscopy, 75(6), 674-689.
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2021 Williams, M. A. J., Spooner, N. A., McDonnell, K., & O'Connell, J. F. (2021). Reply to “Letter to the editors on termite stone lines” by Smith et al. (2021). Geoarchaeology, 36(4), 660-661.
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2020 Williams, M. A. J., Spooner, N. A., McDonnell, K., & O'Connell, J. F. (2020). Identifying disturbance in archaeological sites in tropical northern Australia: Implications for previously proposed 65,000-year continental occupation date. Geoarchaeology, 26(1), 92-108.
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2020 Williams, O. M., & Spooner, N. A. (2020). Quartz optically stimulated luminescence configurational coordinate model. Radiation Measurements, 132, 8 pages.
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2020 Bartz, M., Arnold, L. J., Spooner, N. A., Demuro, M., Campaña, I., Rixhon, G., . . . Duval, M. (2020). Publisher Correction: First experimental evaluation of the alpha efficiency in coarse-grained quartz for ESR dating purposes: implications for dose rate evaluation.. Scientific reports, 10(1), 5252.
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2020 Demuro, M., Duval, M., Arnold, L. J., Spooner, N. A., Creighton, D. F., Méndez-Quintas, E., . . . Pérez-González, A. (2020). Insights into the relationship between luminescence and ESR dating signals from Spanish sedimentary quartz samples of different geologic origins. Quaternary International, 556, 165-179.
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2019 Shaw, R., Kalnins, C., Spooner, N., Whittaker, C., Grimm, S., Schuster, K., . . . Ebendorff-Heidepriem, H. (2019). Luminescence effects in reactive powder sintered silica glasses for radiation sensing. Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 102(1), 222-238.
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2019 Arnold, L. A., Demuro, M., Spooner, N., Prideaux, G. J., McDowell, M., Camens, A., . . . Carbonell, E. (2019). Single-grain TT-OSL bleaching characteristics: insights from modern analogues and OSL dating comparisons. Quaternary Geochronology, 49, 45-51.
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2019 Kalnins, C., Spooner, N., Clarke, M., & Ottaway, D. (2019). Alpha particle autoradiography for high spatial resolution mapping of radionuclides. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 197, 9-15.
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2019 Whittaker, C., Kalnins, C., Ottaway, D., Spooner, N., & Ebendorff-Heidepriem, H. (2019). Transmission loss measurements of plastic scintillating optical fibres. Optical Materials Express, 9(1), 1-12.
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2019 Whittaker, C. A., Santos, A. M. C., Kalnins, C. A. G., Ebendorff-Heidepriem, H., Ottaway, D., & Spooner, N. A. (2019). Evaluating the energy dependence of various polystyrene based plastic scintillators. Radiation Measurements, 122, 57-62.
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2019 Demuro, M., Arnold, L. J., Spooner, N. A., Ditchfield, K., & Veth, P. (2019). Corrigendum: Coastal occupation before the “Big Swamp”: Results from excavations at John Wayne Country Rockshelter on Barrow Island: Coastal occupation before the “Big Swamp” (Archaeology in Oceania, (2018), 53, 3, (163-178), 10.1002/arco.5164). Archaeology in Oceania, 54(1), 68-72.
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2019 Whittaker, C. A., Kalnins, C. A. G., Ebendorff-Heidepriem, H., Spooner, N. A., & Ottaway, D. (2019). A fibre optic based approach and device for sensing beta radiation in liquids. Sensors and Actuators, A: Physical, 296, 101-109.
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2019 Samper Carro, S. C., Gilbert, F., Bulbeck, D., O'Connor, S., Louys, J., Spooner, N., . . . Mahirta. (2019). Somewhere beyond the sea: human cranial remains from the Lesser Sunda Islands (Alor Island, Indonesia) provide insights on Late Pleistocene peopling of Island Southeast Asia. Journal of Human Evolution, 134, 102638-1-102638-16.
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2019 Tieu, W., Hollis, C. A., Kuan, K. K. W., Takhar, P., Stuckings, M., Spooner, N., & Malinconico, M. (2019). Rapid and automated production of [68Ga]gallium chloride and [68Ga]Ga-DOTA-TATE on a medical cyclotron. Nuclear Medicine and Biology, 74-75, 12-18.
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2019 Spooner, N. A., Williams, O. M., & Moffatt, J. E. (2019). Pulsed optically stimulated luminescence for mechanisms studies in quartz. Radiation Measurements, 128, 10 pages.
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2019 Whittaker, C. A., Kalnins, C. A. G., Ebendorff-Heidepriem, H., Ottaway, D., & Spooner, N. A. (2019). A fibre optic based approach and device for sensing alpha particles in liquids. Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 299, 111573-1-111573-7.
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2019 Moffatt, J. E., Tsiminis, G., Klantsataya, E., de Prinse, T. J., Ottaway, D., & Spooner, N. A. (2019). A practical review of shorter than excitation wavelength light emission processes. Applied Spectroscopy Reviews, 55(4), 327-349.
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2019 Bartz, M., Arnold, L. J., Spooner, N. A., Demuro, M., Campaña, I., Rixhon, G., . . . Duval, M. (2019). First experimental evaluation of the alpha efficiency in coarse-grained quartz for ESR dating purposes: implications for dose rate evaluation. Scientific Reports, 9(1), 19769-1-19769-10.
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2018 Sherwood, J. E., Bowler, J. M., Carey, S. P., Hellstrom, J., McNiven, I. J., Murray-Wallace, C. V., . . . Woodhead, J. D. (2018). The Moyjil site, south-west Victoria, Australia: Chronology. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, 130(2), 32-49.
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2018 Hunter, P., Spooner, N., & Smith, B. (2018). Thermoluminescence emission from quartz at 480 nm as a high-dose radiation marker. Radiation Measurements, 120, 143-147.
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2018 Rahman, M., Moffatt, J., & Spooner, N. (2018). Topological carbon nitride: Localized photon absorption and delocalized charge carrier separation at intertwined photocatalyst interfaces. Materials Horizons, 5(3), 553-559.
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2018 Dakka, M. A., Tsiminis, G., Glover, R. D., Perrella, C., Moffatt, J., Spooner, N. A., . . . Luiten, A. N. (2018). Laser-based metastable krypton generation. Physical Review Letters, 121(9), 6 pages.
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2018 O Connell, J., Allen, J., Williams, M., Williams, A., Turney, C., Spooner, N., . . . Cooper, A. (2018). When did homo sapiens first reach Southeast Asia and Sahul?. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 115(34), 8482-8490.
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2018 Morris, P., Pillans, B., Williams, F., Spooner, N., Krapf, C., & Kovacs, N. (2018). Combining geochemistry and geochronology of transported regolith to reveal bedrock-hosted mineralization in the arid east Wongatha area of south central Western Australia. Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis, 18(3), 216-228.
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2018 Williams, O., Spooner, N., Smith, B., & Moffatt, J. (2018). Extended duration optically stimulated luminescence in quartz. Radiation Measurements, 119, 42-51.
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2018 Miller, G., Magee, J., Fogel, M., Wooller, M., Hesse, P., Spooner, N., . . . Wallis, L. (2018). Wolfe Creek Crater: a continuous sediment fill in the Australian Arid Zone records changes in monsoon strength through the Late Quaternary. Quaternary Science Reviews, 199, 108-125.
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2018 Williams, O. M., & Spooner, N. A. (2018). Defect pair mechanism for quartz intermediate temperature thermoluminescence bands. Radiation Measurements, 108, 41-44.
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2017 Grellet-Tinner, G., Spooner, N., Handley, W., & Worthy, T. (2017). The Genyornis egg: response to Miller et al.'s commentary on Grellet-Tinner et al., 2016. Quaternary Science Reviews, 161, 128-133.
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2017 Veth, P., Ward, I., Manne, T., Ulm, S., Ditchfield, K., Dortch, J., . . . Kendrick, P. (2017). Early human occupation of a maritime desert, Barrow Island, North-West Australia. Quaternary Science Reviews, 168, 19-29.
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2017 Tibby, J., Barr, C., Marshall, J., McGregor, G., Moss, P., Arnold, L., . . . Moss, E. (2017). Persistence of wetlands on North Stradbroke Island (south-east Queensland, Australia) during the last glacial cycle: implications for Quaternary science and biogeography. Journal of Quaternary Science, 32(6), 770-781.
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2017 Rahman, M., Tapping, P., Kee, T., Smernik, R., Spooner, N., Moffatt, J., . . . Qiao, S. (2017). A benchmark quantum yield for water photoreduction on amorphous carbon nitride. Advanced Functional Materials, 27(39), 1702384-1-1702384-11.
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2017 Shestha, A., Yin, Y., Andersson, G., Spooner, N., Qiao, S., & Dai, S. (2017). Versatile PbS quantum dot ligand exchange systems in the presence of Pb-Thiolates. Small, 13(5), 1-6.
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2016 Arnold, L., Duval, M., Demuro, M., Spooner, N., Santonja, M., & Pérez-González, A. (2016). OSL dating of individual quartz ‘supergrains’ from the Ancient Middle Palaeolithic site of Cuesta de la Bajada, Spain. Quaternary Geochronology, 36, 78-101.
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2016 Hamm, G., Mitchell, P., Arnold, L., Prideaux, G., Questiaux, D., Spooner, N., . . . Johnston, D. (2016). Cultural innovation and megafauna interaction in the early settlement of arid Australia. Nature, 539(7628), 280-297.
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2016 Grellet-Tinner, G., Spooner, N., & Worthy, T. (2016). Is the "Genyornis" egg of a mihirung or another extinct bird from the Australian dreamtime?. Quaternary Science Reviews, 133, 147-164.
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2016 Miller, G., Magee, J., Smith, M., Spooner, N., Baynes, A., Lehman, S., . . . DeVogel, S. (2016). Human predation contributed to the extinction of the Australian megafaunal bird Genyornis newtoni ∼47 ka. Nature Communications, 7(1), 10496-1-10496-7.
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2016 Tsiminis, G., Rowland, K., Schartner, E., Spooner, N., Monro, T., & Ebendorff-Heidepriem, H. (2016). Single-ring hollow core optical fibers made by glass billet extrusion for Raman sensing. Optics Express, 24(6), 5911-5917.
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2016 Shrestha, A., Spooner, N., Qiao, S., & Dai, S. (2016). Mechanistic insight into the nucleation and growth of oleic acid capped lead sulphide quantum dots. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 18(20), 14055-14062.
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2016 Kalnins, C., Spooner, N., Monro, T., & Ebendorff-Heidepriem, H. (2016). Surface analysis and treatment of extruded fluoride phosphate glass preforms for optical fiber fabrication. Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 99(6), 1874-1877.
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2016 Kalnins, C., Ebendorff-Heidepriem, H., Spooner, N., & Monro, T. (2016). Enhanced radiation dosimetry of fluoride phosphate glass optical fibres by terbium (III) doping. Optical Materials Express, 6(12), 3692-3703.
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2014 Hughes, P., Shawcross, W., Sullivan, M., & Spooner, N. (2014). The geoarchaeology of a Holocene site on the Woolshed Embankment, Lake George, New South Wales. Australian Archaeology, 78(78), 24-32.
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2014 Hughes, P., Spooner, N., & Questiaux, D. (2014). The central lowlands of the Hunter Valley, NSW: why so few early sites have been found in this archaeologically-rich landscape. Australian Archaeology, 79(79), 34-44.
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2014 Murszewski, A., Ward, I., Spooner, N., & Leopold, M. (2014). What to make of the 'Murchison Cement'? A re-examination of a megafaunal fossil site in the Mid West, Western Australia. Australian Archaeology, 79(79), 116-123.
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2014 Chu, F., Tsiminis, G., Spooner, N., & Monro, T. (2014). Explosives detection by fluorescence quenching of conjugated polymers in suspended core optical fibers. Sensors and Actuators B-Chemical, 199, 22-26.
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2014 Johnson, M., Mudd, S., Pillans, B., Spooner, N., Fifield, L., Kirkby, M., & Gloor, M. (2014). Quantifying the rate and depth dependence of bioturbation based on optically-stimulated luminescence (OSL) dates and meteoric ¹⁰Be. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 39(9), 1188-1196.
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2014 Sullivan, M., Hughes, P., Mosig Way, A., & Spooner, N. (2014). Prehistoric mining at Olympic Dam in arid South Australia. Archaeology in Oceania, 49(1), 43-55.
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2013 Tsiminis, G., Chu, F., Warren-Smith, S., Spooner, N., & Monro, T. (2013). Identification and quantification of explosives in nanolitre solution volumes by Raman spectroscopy in suspended core optical fibers. Sensors, 13(10), 13163-13177.
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2013 Kalnins, C., Spooner, N., Ebendorff-Heidepriem, H., & Monro, T. (2013). Luminescent properties of fluoride phosphate glass for radiation dosimetry. Optical Materials Express, 3(7), 960-967.
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2012 Spooner, N., Smith, B., Creighton, D., Questiaux, D., & Hunter, P. (2012). Luminescence from NaCl for application to retrospective dosimetry. Radiation Measurements, 47(9), 883-889.
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2012 Moffatt, J., Spooner, N., Creighton, D., & Smith, B. (2012). Luminescence properties of common glasses for application to retrospective dosimetry. Radiation Measurements, 47(9), 851-856.
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2012 Hunter, P., Spooner, N., Smith, B., & Creighton, D. (2012). Investigation of emission spectra, dose response and stability of luminescence from NaCl. Radiation Measurements, 47(9), 820-824.
DOI Scopus34 WoS36
2012 Fitzsimmons, K., Miller, G., Spooner, N., & Magee, J. (2012). Aridity in the monsoon zone as indicated by desert dune formation in the Gregory Lakes basin, northwestern Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 59(4), 469-478.
DOI Scopus35 WoS31
2012 Kalnins, C., Ebendorff-Heidepriem, H., Spooner, N., & Monro, T. (2012). Radiation dosimetry using optically stimulated luminescence in fluoride phosphate optical fibres. Optical Materials Express, 2(1), 62-70.
DOI Scopus39 WoS34
2012 Williams, F., Spooner, N., & Dawson, B. (2012). JOHN RUSSELL PRESCOTT (May 31st 1924-September 1st 2011): Emeritus Professor of Physics, University of Adelaide. Quaternary Geochronology, 7(1), 2-3.
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2011 Oks, H., Spooner, N., Smith, B., Prescott, J., Creighton, D., McCulloch, I., & Adamiec, G. (2011). Assessment of thermoluminescence peaks in porcelain for use in retrospective dosimetry. Radiation Measurements, 46(12 Sp Iss), 1873-1877.
DOI Scopus10 WoS10
2011 Spooner, N., Smith, B., Williams, O., Creighton, D., McCulloch, I., Hunter, P., . . . Prescott, J. (2011). Analysis of luminescence from common salt (NaCl) for application to retrospective dosimetry. Radiation Measurements, 46(12 Sp Iss), 1856-1861.
DOI Scopus46 WoS43
2011 McCulloch, I., Spooner, N., & Jones, D. (2011). A high-sensitivity photon counting imaging system (PCIS) for luminescence analysis. Radiation Measurements, 46(12 Sp Iss), 1566-1570.
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2011 Grun, R., Spooner, N., Magee, J., Thorne, A., Simpson, J., Yan, G., & Mortimer, G. (2011). Stratigraphy and chronology of the WLH 50 human remains, Willandra Lakes World Heritage Area, Australia. Journal of Human Evolution, 60(5), 597-604.
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2011 Kalnins, C., Ebendorff-Heidepriem, H., Spooner, N., & Monro, T. (2011). Optically stimulated luminescence in fluoride-phosphate glass for radiation dosimetry. Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 94(2), 474-477.
DOI Scopus16 WoS15
2010 Grün, R., Eggins, S., Aubert, M., Spooner, N., Pike, A. W., & Müller, W. (2010). ESR and U-series analyses of faunal material from Cuddie Springs, NSW, Australia: implications for the timing of the extinction of the Australian megafauna. Quaternary Science Reviews, 29(5-6), 596-610.
DOI Scopus64 WoS56
2009 Magee, J. W., Miller, G. H., Spooner, N. A., Questiaux, D. G., McCulloch, M. T., & Clark, P. A. (2009). Evaluating Quaternary dating methods: radiocarbon, U-series, luminescence, and amino acid racemization dates of a late Pleistocene emu egg. Quaternary Geochronology, 4(2), 84-92.
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2008 Grün, R., Wells, R., Eggins, S., Spooner, N., Aubert, M., Brown, L., & Rhodes, E. (2008). Electron spin resonance dating of South Australian megafauna sites. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 55(6-7), 917-935.
DOI Scopus28 WoS24
2007 Twidale, C., Bourne, J., Spooner, N., & Rhodes, E. (2007). The age of the palaeodunefield of the northern Murray Basin in South Australia: Preliminary results. Quaternary International, 166(1), 42-48.
DOI Scopus15 WoS14
2007 Kemp, J., & Spooner, N. A. (2007). Evidence for regionally wet conditions before the LGM in southeast Australia: OSL ages from a large palaeochannel in the Lachlan Valley. Journal of Quaternary Science, 22(5), 423-427.
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2006 Wells, R. T., Grün, R., Sullivan, J., Forbes, M. S., Dalgairns, S., Bestland, E. A., . . . Eggins, S. (2006). Late pleistocene megafauna site at black creek swamp, flinders chase National Park, Kangaroo Island, South Australia. Alcheringa, 30(SUPPL. 1), 367-387.
DOI Scopus21
2006 Grün, R., Eggins, S., Wells, R. T., Rhodes, E., Bestland, E., Spooner, N., . . . McCulloch, M. (2006). A cautionary tale from down under: Dating the BlackCreek Swamp megafauna site on Kangaroo Island, South Australia. Quaternary Geochronology, 1(2), 142-150.
DOI Scopus21 WoS19
2004 Mee, A., Bestland, E., & Spooner, N. (2004). Age and origin of Terra Rossa soils in the Coonawarra area of South Australia. Geomorphology, 58(1-4), 1-25.
DOI Scopus50 WoS44
2004 Magee, J. W., Miller, G. H., Spooner, N. A., & Questiaux, D. (2004). Continuous 150 k.y. monsoon record from Lake Eyre, Australia: Insolation-forcing implications and unexpected Holocene failure. Geology, 32(10), 885-888.
DOI Scopus238 WoS209
2003 Bowler, J., Johnston, H., Olley, J., Prescott, J., Roberts, R., Shawcross, W., & Spooner, N. (2003). New ages for human occupation and climatic change at Lake Mungo, Australia. Nature, 421(6925), 837-840.
DOI Scopus603 WoS507 Europe PMC121
2003 Pack, S. M., Miller, G. H., Fogel, M. L., & Spooner, N. A. (2003). Carbon isotopic evidence for increased aridity in northwestern Australia through the Quaternary. Quaternary Science Reviews, 22(5-7), 629-643.
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2002 Spooner, N. A., & Franklin, A. D. (2002). Effect of the heating rate on the red TL of quartz. Radiation Measurements, 35(1), 59-66.
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2002 Chen, X. Y., Spooner, N. A., Olley, J. M., & Questiaux, D. G. (2002). Addition of aeolian dusts to soils in southeastern Australia: Red silty clay trapped in dunes bordering Murrumbidgee River in the Wagga Wagga region. Catena, 47(1), 1-27.
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2002 Heimsath, A. M., Chappell, J., Spooner, N. A., & Questiaux, D. G. (2002). Creeping soil. Geology, 30(2), 111-114.
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2001 Spooner, N. A., Olley, J. M., Questiaux, D. G., & Chen, X. Y. (2001). Optical dating of an aeolian deposit on the Murrumbidgee floodplain. Quaternary Science Reviews, 20(5-9), 835-840.
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2001 Tanaka, K., Hataya, R., Spooner, N. A., & Questiaux, D. G. (2001). Optical dating of river terrace sediments from Kanto plains, Japan. Quaternary Science Reviews, 20(5-9), 825-828.
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2001 English, P., Spooner, N. A., Chappell, J., Questiaux, D. G., & Hill, N. G. (2001). Lake Lewis basin, central Australia: Environmental evolution and OSL chronology. Quaternary International, 83-85(85), 81-101.
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2001 Ogden, R., Spooner, N., Reid, M., & Head, J. (2001). Sediment dates with implications for the age of the conversion from palaeochannel to modern fluvial activity on the Murray River and tributaries. Quaternary International, 82(85), 195-209.
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2000 Grün, R., Spooner, N. A., Thorne, A., Mortimer, G., Simpson, J. J., McCulloch, M. T., . . . Curnoe, D. (2000). Age of the Lake Mungo 3 skeleton, reply to Bowler & Magee and to Gillespie & Roberts. Journal of Human Evolution, 38(5), 733-741.
DOI Scopus45 Europe PMC10
2000 Spooner, N. A., & Allsop, A. (2000). Spatial variation of dose-rate from 90Sr/90Y beta sources for use in luminescence dating. Radiation Measurements, 32(1), 49-55.
DOI Scopus28 WoS24
2000 Spooner, N. A., & Questiaux, D. G. (2000). Kinetics of red, blue and UV thermoluminescence and optically-stimulated luminescence from quartz. Radiation Measurements, 32(5), 659-666.
DOI Scopus89
2000 Spooner, N. A. (2000). Photon-counting imaging system (PCIS) for luminescence applications. Radiation Measurements, 32(5), 513-521.
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1999 Thorne, A., Grün, R., Mortimer, G., Spooner, N. A., Simpson, J. J., McCulloch, M., . . . Curnoe, D. (1999). Australia's oldest human remains: Age of the Lake Mungo 3 skeleton. Journal of Human Evolution, 36(6), 591-612.
DOI Scopus282 Europe PMC69
1999 Miller, G. H., Magee, J. W., Johnson, B. J., Fogel, M. L., Spooner, N. A., McCulloch, M. T., & Ayliffe, L. K. (1999). Pleistocene extinction of Genyornis newtoni: Human impact on Australian megafauna. Science, 283(5399), 205-208.
DOI Scopus300
1998 Spooner, N. A. (1998). Human occupation at Jinmium, northern Australia: 116,000 years ago or much less?. Antiquity, 72(275), 173-178.
DOI Scopus24
1997 Tanaka, K., Hataya, R., Spooner, N. A., Questiaux, D. G., Saito, Y., & Hashimoto, T. (1997). Dating of marine terrace sediments by ESR, TL and OSL methods and their applicabilities. Quaternary Science Reviews, 16(3-5), 257-264.
DOI Scopus49
1996 Grun, R., Brink, J. S., Spooner, N. A., Taylor, L., Stringer, C. B., Franciscus, R. G., & Murray, A. S. (1996). Direct dating of Florisbad hominid [2]. Nature, 382(6591), 500-501.
DOI Scopus208 Europe PMC61
1996 Visocekas, R., Tale, V., Zink, A., Spooner, N. A., & Tale, I. (1996). Trap spectroscopy and TSL in feldspars. Radiation Protection Dosimetry, 66(1-4), 391-394.
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1994 Roberts, R. G., Spooner, N. A., & Questiaux, D. G. (1994). Optical Dating of Quartz: A Comment on Stokes and Gaylord (1993). Quaternary Research, 42(1), 108-109.
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1994 Roberts, R. G., Spooner, N. A., & Questiaux, D. G. (1994). Palaeodose underestimates caused by extended-duration preheats in the optical dating of quartz. Radiation Measurements, 23(2-3), 647-653.
DOI Scopus41 WoS36
1993 Wintle, A. G., Questiaux, D. G., Roberts, R. G., Spooner, N. A., & Berger, G. W. (1993). Dating loess up to 800 ka by thermoluminescence: Comment and Reply. Geology, 21(6), 568-569.
DOI Scopus7 WoS10
1991 Smith, B. W., Wheeler, G. C. W. S., Rhodes, E. J., & Spooner, N. A. (1991). Luminescence dating of zircon using an imaging photon detector. International Journal of Radiation Applications and Instrumentation Part, 18(1-2), 273-278.
DOI Scopus16 WoS11
1991 SMITH, B. W., RHODES, E. J., STOKES, S., SPOONER, N. A., & AITKEN, M. J. (1991). CORRIGENDUM TO ‘OPTICAL DATING OF SEDIMENTS: INITIAL QUARTZ RESULTS FROM OXFORD’. Archaeometry, 33(1), 135.
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1990 SMITH, B. W., RHODES, E. J., STOKES, S., SPOONER, N. A., & AITKEN, M. J. (1990). OPTICAL DATING OF SEDIMENTS: INITIAL QUARTZ RESULTS FROM OXFORD. Archaeometry, 32(1), 19-31.
DOI Scopus91 WoS86
1988 Spooner, N. A., Prescott, J. R., & Hutton, J. T. (1988). The effect of illumination wavelength on the bleaching of the thermoluminescence (TL) of quartz. Quaternary Science Reviews, 7(3-4), 325-329.
DOI Scopus89 WoS81
- Williams, O. M., & Spooner, N. (n.d.). An Introductory Defect Pair Model for Infrared Photoluminescence and Infrared Stimulated Luminescence from Alkali Feldspars.

Year Citation
2024 Doughney, T., Gillam, J., Kalnins, C., Hooker, A. M., Marinaro, D., Damas, D., . . . Spooner, N. A. (2024). GEANT4 Surface Model for Background Radiation in Complex Environments. In 2022 IEEE NSS/MIC RTSD - IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, Medical Imaging Conference and Room Temperature Semiconductor Detector Conference Vol. 784 (pp. 1-2). Italy: IEEE.
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2024 de Prinse, T., Moffatt, J., Payten, T., Slattery, T., Rusby, J., Tsiminis, G., . . . Spooner, N. A. (2024). Novel fluorescence analysis for real-time moon mineralogy. In Y. Soskind, & L. E. Busse (Eds.), Photonic Instrumentation Engineering XI Vol. 12893 (pp. 66). Online: SPIE.
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2020 Chapsky, A., Spooner, N. A., Santos, A., & Rutten, T. (2020). 3D dose distribution measurement using 2D imaging from NaCl optical crystals. In Proceddings of the Micro-Mini & Nano Dosimetry and Innovative Technologies in Radiation Oncology (MMND ITRO 2020), as published in Journal of Physics: Conference Series Vol. 1662 (pp. 012009-1-012009-4). online: IOP Publishing.
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2017 Hunter, P., & Spooner, N. (2017). Investigation of the role of the production process on the luminescence of sea salt products. In Geochronometria Vol. 44 (pp. 121-128). Adelaide, AUSTRALIA: DE GRUYTER OPEN LTD.
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2014 Warren-Smith, S., Tsiminis, G., Robertson, I., Turnbull, G., Samuel, I., Spooner, N., & Monro, T. (2014). Fabrication of subwavelength surface gratings on exposed-core microstructured optical fibres. In International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. Adelaide, South Australia.
2014 Tsiminis, G., Rowland, K., Ebendorff-Heidepriem, H., Spooner, N., & Monro, T. (2014). Extruded single ring hollow core optical fibers for Raman sensing. In J. LopezHiguera, J. Jones, M. LopezAmo, & J. Santos (Eds.), Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering Vol. 9157 (pp. 915782-1-915782-4). Santander, Spain: SPIE.
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2014 Chu, F., Tsiminis, G., Spooner, N., & Monro, T. (2014). Explosives sensing based on suspended core fiber coated with conjugated polymer. In J. LopezHiguera, J. Jones, M. LopezAmo, & J. Santos (Eds.), Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering Vol. 9157 (pp. 915784-1-915784-4). Santander, Spain: SPIE.
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2013 Chu, F., Tsiminis, G., Lang, C., Spooner, N., & Monro, T. (2013). Measuring nitroaromatic explosives using polymer-coated microstructured optical fibers. In Australian and New Zealand Conference on Optics and Photonics. Fremantle, W.A..
2013 Tsiminis, G., Chu, F., Spooner, N., & Monro, T. (2013). Sensing explosives with suspended core fibers: Identification and quantification using Raman spectroscopy. In Proceedings of SPIE vol 8627 Vol. 8627 (pp. 86270M-1-86270M-7). Online: SPIE.
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2012 Kalnins, C., Ebendorff-Heidepriem, H., Spooner, N., & Monro, T. (2012). Optically stimulated luminescence in fluoride phosphate glass optical fibres for radiation dosimetry. In Proceedings Volume 8351, Third Asia Pacific Optical Sensors Conference Vol. 8351 (pp. 83512G-1-83512G-6). Sydney, Australia: SPIE.
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2012 Tsiminis, G., Spooner, N., & Monro, T. (2012). Raman detection of hydrogen peroxide in suspended core optical fibers. In Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 8421 (pp. 842181). Beijing, China: SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING.
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2010 Prescott, J., Creighton, D., Williams, F., & Spooner, N. (2010). Three-Dimensional luminescence spectra of single grains of feldspar. In Proceedings of 16th AINSE conference on nuclear and complementary techniques of analysis (pp. 1-4). online: 16th AINSE conference on nuclear and complementary techniques of analysis.
2009 Kalnins, C., Ebendorff-Heidepriem, H., Monro, T., Williams, F., & Spooner, N. (2009). Radiation effects in glasses for optical fiber dosimetry. In Proceedings of the ACOLS ACOFT 09 Conference (pp. 26-27). CDROM: Australian Optical Society.
2008 Spooner, N. A., & Smith, B. W. (2008). Luminescence analysis for radiological and nuclear forensic application. In E Forensics 2008 Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Forensic Applications and Techniques in Telecommunications Information and Multimedia and Workshop. ACM.
DOI Scopus1
1997 Abeyratne, M., Spooner, N. A., Grün, R., & Head, J. (1997). Multidating studies of Batadomba Cave, Sri Lanka. In Quaternary Science Reviews Vol. 16 (pp. 243-255). AUSTRALIAN NATL UNIV, CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA: PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD.
DOI Scopus17 WoS16
1994 Roberts, R. G., Jones, R., Spooner, N. A., Head, M. J., Murray, A. S., & Smith, M. A. (1994). The human colonisation of Australia: optical dates of 53,000 and 60,000 years bracket human arrival at Deaf Adder Gorge, Northern Territory. In Quaternary Science Reviews Vol. 13 (pp. 575-583). KREMS, AUSTRIA: PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD.
DOI Scopus272 WoS230
1994 Visocekas, R., Spooner, N. A., Zink, A., & Blanc, P. (1994). Tunnel afterglow, fading and infrared emission in thermoluminescence of feldspars. In Radiation Measurements Vol. 23 (pp. 377-385). KREMS, AUSTRIA: PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD.
DOI Scopus91 WoS89
1994 Spooner, N. A. (1994). The anomalous fading of infrared-stimulated luminescence from feldspars. In Radiation Measurements Vol. 23 (pp. 625-632). KREMS, AUSTRIA: PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD.
DOI Scopus303 WoS282
1994 Spooner, N. A. (1994). On the optical dating signal from quartz. In Radiation Measurements Vol. 23 (pp. 593-600). KREMS, AUSTRIA: PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD.
DOI Scopus250 WoS237
1992 Spooner, N. A. (1992). Optical dating: Preliminary results on the anomalous fading of luminescence from feldspars. In Quaternary Science Reviews Vol. 11 (pp. 139-145). CLERMONT FERRAND, FRANCE: PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD.
DOI Scopus116 WoS106
1990 Smith, B. W., Rhodes, E. J., Stokes, S., & Spooner, N. A. (1990). The optical dating of sediments using quartz. In Radiation Protection Dosimetry Vol. 34 (pp. 75-78). VIENNA, AUSTRIA: NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY PUBL.
DOI Scopus50 WoS53
1990 Spooner, N. A., Aitken, M. J., Smith, B. W., Franks, M., & McElroy, C. (1990). Archaeological dating by infrared-stimulated luminescence using a diode array. In Radiation Protection Dosimetry Vol. 34 (pp. 83-86). VIENNA, AUSTRIA: NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY PUBL.
DOI Scopus88 WoS87

Year Citation
2021 Tran, Q. D., Spooner, N., Geoghegan, S., Stoudemire, J., Tran, N. N., Fisk, I., & Hessel, V. (2021). Cosmic-ray Irradiation Study of a Space Medicine for Future On-Orbit Manufacturing. Poster session presented at the meeting of Luxembourg Space Resources Week 2021. Luxembourg.
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Year Citation
2018 Spooner, N., & Ottaway, D. (2018). ARC Australian Copper-Uranium Transformational Research Hub Fifth Sponsors Review Report.
2018 Spooner, N. A., & Ottaway, D. (2018). ARC Australian Copper-Uranium Transformational Research Hub Sixth Sponsors Review Report.
2018 Spooner, N. A., & Ottaway, D. J. (2018). ARC Australian Copper-Uranium Transformational Research Hub Status Update Report - Feb 2018.
2018 Spooner, N. A., & Ottaway, D. (2018). ARC Australian Copper-Uranium Transformational Research Hub 2018 Hub Objectives.
2017 Spooner, N. A., & Ottaway, D. (2017). ARC Australian Copper-Uranium Transformational Research Hub 2017 Hub Objectives.
2017 Spooner, N. A., & Ottaway, D. (2017). ARC Australian Copper-Uranium Transformational Research Hub Third Six Monthly Report.
2017 Spooner, N., & Ottaway, D. (2017). ARC Australian Copper-Uranium Transformational Research Hub Fourth Sponsors Review Report.
  Research Funding
Date Project/ No. Investigators Funding Body Amount
2024-2029 ARC Training Centre for Radiation Innovation M Dasgupta, E Bezak, G Lane, N Spooner, ...I Williams ARC ITTC $4,990,000
2024 Rapid development of new medical treatment compounds from radioactive mine waste D Questiaux, M Thewlis, N Spooner, T Payten, J Builth-William, H Wescombe-Down Australia's Economic Accelerator Seed Grants $196,248
2023-2025 Hand-Portable Real-Time Non-Contact Fluorescence-based Asbestos Sensor N Spooner, M Lumasag, C Singla, E Schartner Business Research and Innovation Initiative – Regulatory Technology Round $969,690
2022-2025

Development of the GenX Betavoltaic Battery Pilot Manufacturing Process		 N Spooner, C Kalnins, A Chapsky DIIS - CRC-P $949,492
2022-2022



Hand-Portable In-situ Real-Time Non-Contact Asbestos Sensor		 N Spooner, M Lumasag, R Loughan, M Vestel, S Gromitsaris  Business Research and Innovation Initiative – Regulatory Technology Round $87,983
2021-2022 Novel fluorescence sensing of materials for Moon to Mars in-situ resource utilisation N Spooner, A Birbeck Moon to Mars: Demonstrator Feasibility Grants $248,404
2021-2021 Natural values assessment and conservation monitoring of Naracoorte Caves E Reed, L Arnold, N Spooner, J Conran, E Fagan-Jeffries Australian Heritage Grants $199,869
2021 Fluorescence for real-time field identification of minerals MinEX CRC Project MinEX CRC Project $95,000
2020-2025 Aboriginal rock art and cultural heritage management in Cape York Peninsula L Wallis, H Burke, N Spooner, N Cole ARC Linkage Project $48,000
2020-2026 ARC Training Centre for Integrated Operations for Complex Resources P Dowd, ..N Spooner ARC ITTC $5,625,664
2020 Ultrafast Laser Spectroscopy Facility S Trevor, ...N Spooner, D Abbott ARC LIEF $235,960
2019 Real-time fluorine mineral identification using novel fluorescence technology L Moore, N Spooner, D Ottaway, G Tsiminis, J Moffatt CRC for Optimising Resource Extraction $631,138
2018-2023 Naracoorte Caves: a critical window on faunal extinctions and past climates L Arnold, R Hill, E Reed, A Cooper, J Austin, J Tibby ARC Linkage Project $669,000
2017-2018 A regional optical dating facility for South Australia L Arnold, N Spooner, G Prideaux, R Hill, A Collins ARC LIEF $410,000
2016-2019 Upconversion Fluorescence for Real-time Mineral Identification N Spooner, D Ottaway Cooperative Research Centre for Optimising Resource Extraction (CRC ORE) $1,300,000
2015-2020 ARC Research Hub for Graphene Enabled Industry Transformation D Losic, E Skafidas, M Majumder, C Fumeaux, N Choudhury, A Nirmalathas, M McLaughlin, J Ma, R Ghomashchi, YL Zhong, M Muzzin, G Anderson, I Neering, N Spooner, H Zhu, K Koziol, A Pollard, A Merkoçi, L Dai, J Liu, R Stewart, S Bohm Australian Research Council (ARC), Industrial Transformation Research Hubs,IH150100003 $2,611,346
2015-2017 A 140,000 year insight into the imprint of climate and humans on Australia J Tibby, P Moss, M Leng, J Shakun, N Spooner Australian Research Council (ARC), Discovery Project, DP150103875 $381,140
2015 Single-Grain Sorter and Loader NA Spooner, B Cazzolato, D Creighton, L Arnold, M Demuro, D Questiaux University of Adelaide, Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing (IPAS), Pilot Project $16,000
2014 UV to mid-infrared fluorescence spectrometer for use in mineral analysis, radiation dosimetry, and laser materials characterisation DG Lancaster, H Ebendorff-Heidepriem, MJ Withford, SR Grano, NA Spooner Australian Research Council (ARC), Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LEIF), LE140100042 $360,000
2013-2018 The Australian Copper-Uranium Transformation Research Hub S Grano, D Ottaway, Y Ngothai, P Ashman, H Ebendorff-Heidepriem, A Hooker, J Brugger, S Wilson, A Pring, P Hayes, Y Peng, J Vaughan, E Jak, K Ehrig, N Spooner, S Simons Australian Research Council (ARC), Industrial Transformation Research Hub, IH130200033 $2,526,617
2012 Upgrade of “Risø” automated reader for single-grain optical dating & radiation dosimetry research N Spooner University of Adelaide, Research Equipment and Infrastructure Round $20,300
2012 Small optical and lab apparatus for single-grain optical dating and luminescence radiation dosimetry research N Spooner University of Adelaide, Research Equipment and Infrastructure Round $18,250
2012 Low-level K, U, Th and daughter radionuclide measurements for dose rate research N Spooner Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering (AINSE) Award, No ALNGRA12125 $15,350
2011-2014 Transformational diagnostics TM Monro, A Cooper, LA Salamonsen, RJ Norman, NA Spooner Australian Research Council (ARC), Super Science Fellowships, FS110200009 $835,200
2009 Risø reader for luminescence imaging & dosimetry N Spooner University of Adelaide, Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing (IPAS), Equipment Round $175,000
2008 Establishment of Institute of Photonics and Advanced Sensing (IPAS) Team led by TM Monro Higher Education Endowment Fund, Federal Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations, University of Adelaide, SA State Government and  DST Group $97M

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2025 Principal Supervisor Detecting asbestos accurately and reliably using Novel Fluorescence and machine learning to enable on-site identification by end users in a range of environments. Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Miroslav Barta
2024 Co-Supervisor CSI Superbugs: Unveiling unique fingerprints of antibiotic-resistant microbes through light Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Harriet Jane Cooling
2024 Principal Supervisor Novel Fluorescence of heavy minerals for terrestrial and space applications Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Joshua Grant Rusby
2023 Principal Supervisor Plastic scintillator design and optimisation for UAV borne gamma radiation surveys Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Aithan Roufos
2023 Principal Supervisor Quantification of radionuclide geo-sequestration in minerals surrounding nuclear waste storage facilities Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Jason Alexander Charlwood
2022 Principal Supervisor Material Detection Using Novel Luminescence Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Thomas Michael Slattery
2021 Principal Supervisor Drone borne Gamma radiation detection for stand-off high resolution surveying of radionuclide concentrations Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Mr Timothy Doughney
2020 Principal Supervisor Zircon Auto-Regeneration Luminescence (ZARL) dating using single grain imaging. Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Miss Kathryn Leah McDonnell

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2021 - 2025 Co-Supervisor Towards the Development of a Protein Based Gold Biosensor Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Akhil Kumar
2019 - 2022 Principal Supervisor New Fluorescence Sensors for Critical Materials Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Thomas Bede Payten
2019 - 2022 Principal Supervisor Real-time Fluorine Mineral Detection using Novel Fluorescence Technology Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Mr Lewis Da Silva Teixeira
2018 - 2020 Co-Supervisor Advanced Radiation Sensing Techniques Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Mr Jarrah Lionel Herbert Mik
2018 - 2020 Principal Supervisor The Characterisation of NaCl Crystal for a Reusable Radiation Dosimeter Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Alexandra Chapsky
2018 - 2024 Principal Supervisor A Dual Tuneable-Laser Excitation System for the Discovery of Naturally Occurring Fluorescence Signals Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Mr Thomas Jacob de Prinse
2015 - 2020 Principal Supervisor Novel Fluorescence Techniques for Real-Time Mineral Identification Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Jillian Elizabeth Moffatt
2014 - 2018 Principal Supervisor Radiation Sensitive Optical Fibres for Radiation Detection and Dosimetry Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Carly Anne Whittaker
2014 - 2019 Principal Supervisor A Systematic Study of Quartz Thermoluminescence for Forensic and Retrospective Dosimetry Master of Philosophy Master Part Time Mr Peter Geoffrey Hunter
2011 - 2014 Principal Supervisor Testing the TT-OSL Single-Aliquot Protocol for Quartz Sediment Dating Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Jillian Elizabeth Moffatt
2010 - 2015 Co-Supervisor Radiation Effects in Glasses for Intrinsic Optical Fibre Radiation Dosimetry Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Chris Kalnins

Date Role Committee Institution Country
2020 - 2024 Member Technical Capability Working Group Australian Radioactive Waste Agency Australia
2015 - 2018 Member SA Radiation Protection Committee SA Government Australia
2015 - ongoing Chair Fourth Asia-Pacific Luminescence and ESR Dating Conference (APLED) - Australia
2011 - ongoing Chair Session Chair, 13th International Conference on Luminescence and Electron Spin Resonance Dating - Poland
2010 - ongoing Chair Session Chair, 16th International Conference on Solid State Dosimetry - Australia
2007 - ongoing Member Technical Capability Working Group Australian Radioactive Waste Agency Australia
2007 - ongoing Member Australian Critical Minerals Research Centre Australian Critical Minerals Research Centre Australia
2007 - ongoing Member SA EPA Radiation Protection Committee SA EPA Radiation Protection Committee Australia

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