Dr Winney Yang

She works across a range of patent services, including drafting, prosecution, freedom-to-operate analyses, and advising on patentability, IP strategy, and infringement. She has experience in a wide range of inventions spanning materials, photonics, electronics, and biomedical technologies, with particular expertise in semiconductor devices and nanotechnology.

Winney comes from an academic research background. Before joining POF, she worked as a research fellow at the Australian National University and as a visiting fellow at the University of Melbourne, where she specialised in developing advanced solar cell materials and device architectures. She also lectured in physics and renewable energy at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

As a PhD student, Winney conducted research on non-equilibrium semiconductor materials for optoelectronic applications, using techniques such as ion implantation and pulsed laser melting to produce highly non-equilibrium semiconductor materials. During this time, she collaborated with a large team of international researchers on several related interdisciplinary projects and has published numerous journal articles, an invited review article, and an invited book chapter. She was awarded the 2019 Jagadishawar Mahanty Prize for submitting the most outstanding PhD thesis in the Research School of Physics, ANU. She also received a Gold medal in Graduate Student Prizes, the premier student prize awarded by the international Materials Research Society.