The University of Western Australia

UWA Staff Profile


Mr Oscar Del Borrello

Chief Technician

Contact details

Address Chemistry
The University of Western Australia (M313)
35 Stirling Highway
CRAWLEY WA 6009
Australia
Phone 6488 3167
Fax 6488 1005

Location

Room 240, Molecular and Chemical Sciences Building, Crawley campus

Biography

Oscar joined UWA in 1995 as a Lab Technician in the Chemistry teaching labs. He became the Chief Laboratory Technician in Chemistry in 2002, the year that Chemistry joined the School of Biomedical, Biomolecular and Chemical Sciences.

Roles, responsibilities and expertise

The Chief Laboratory Technician supervises other staff in the Chemistry teaching labs, maintains the third year Physical Chemistry Lab (including student lab allocations), is responsible for analytical instruments in the second floor instrument lab and handles radiation badges for the MCS building.
Oscar is point of contact for Chemical analysis by the following techniques: AAS, FTIR, UV-VIS, ICP-OES, DTA/DSC, Powder XRD, GC, HPLC and ASV.

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