Professors

Robert Clark

Experimental investigation of quantum physics in low dimensional semiconductors and semiconductor nanostructures and their application to the next generation of electronics and computing.

Hans Coster

Electrical properties of living cells and the membranes surrounding cells. Impedance spectroscopy and the electro-dynamics of cells in radio frequency electric fields leading to the creation of hybrid cells which have the potential to produce therapeutic materials such as monoclonal antibodies. Related research includes electrodisinfection of water, biosensors and molecular films.

Victor Flambaum

Theoretical Physics: Publications in atomic, nuclear, elementary particle, solid state, astrophysics, quantum chaos and statistical theory.

Michael Gal

Experimental Condensed Matter Physics: the study of the optical properties of semiconductors, semiconductor layer structures and interfaces; optoelectronics; optical instrumentation, particularly modulation spectroscopy and ultra-fast laser spectroscopy.

David Neilson

Condensed Matter Theory: Strongly correlated electron systems in semiconductors; metal-insulator transition in 2D; disordered electron glass; electron bi-layers; quantum wires; superconductor-nanostructure interfaces.

Jaan Oitmaa

Solid State Theory: Phase transitions and critical phenomena; magnetism; lattice dynamics; superconductivity.

Jim Scott

Laser Spectroscopy; Phase transitions; computer memories; thin films.

John Storey

Infrared, far-infrared, mm and radio astronomy, HII regions, molecular clouds and star formation; infrared detectors and instrumentation; electronics; imaging; antarctic astronomy.

Associate Professors

Sean Cadogan

Magnetism and hyperfine interactions in metallic compounds; Amorphous metallic alloys; Mossbauer Spectroscopy, neutron scattering, muon spin relaxation.

Warrick Couch

Optical astronomy, observational cosmology, galaxy evolution and formation particularly in rich clusters; large-scale structure and galaxy redshift surveys; supernovae: distant searches, rates in nearby galaxies.

Chris Hamer

Lattice gauge theory of the strong interactions; critical phenomena in statistical mechanics.

Gary Morriss

Equilibrium and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics; chaotic dynamical systems, molecular hydrodynamics.

Robert Stening

Electric currents and fields in the ionosphere; winds and tides in the upper atmosphere which drive these currents. Lunar tidal effects on the ionosphere; computer models of the low-latitude ionosphere.

Oleg Sushkov

Quantum many body theory including work in condensed matter, nuclear and atomic physics.

Joe Wolfe

Musical Acoustics: investigations of musical instruments, of the human vocal tract and of their interaction. Information, coding and processing of sound in the ear and in artificial systems. Thermal physics in biology, especially cryobiology and water relations.

Senior Lecturers

Michael Ashley

Astronomical instrumentation; infrared astronomy in Antarctica; optical transients from gamma ray bursts; wide-field photometric surveys.

Mary Beilby

Molecular basis of salt tolerance in plants. Unusual transport systems in marine algae bryopsidophyceae multimedia in research and teaching.

Michael Box

Radiative transfer in the earth's atmosphere: multiple scattering, perturbation techniques; climate effects of aerosols, remote sensing from satellites; scattering by haze and cloud particles.

Michael Burton

Infrared astronomy, including the interstellar medium, supernova remnants, shock and fluorescent excitation of molecular clouds, star formation and the galactic centre; millimetre astronomy; Antarctic astronomy; science communication.

Paul Curmi

Structure and dynamics of biological macromolecules; x-ray crystallographic studies of protein structure; molecular dynamics simulations; protein folding and stability; understanding the function of enzymes at atomic level.

Richard Newbury

Experimental condensed matter: low dimensional semiconductor systems, mesoscopic devices. Studies involving very low temperature, high magnetic field. High pressure physics. Superfluidity and superconductivity.

Marlene Read

Surface state band structure, electron and positron scattering from solid surfaces, surface structure analysis. Electrodynamics; relativistic mechanics ("special relativity"); geometrodynamics ("general relativity"). Physics education.

John Smith

Electrical characteristics of biological and artificial membranes. Electrodiffusion theory. Acoustics of musical instruments and the vocal tract; optimisation of impedance measurements.

John Webb

Cosmology, hubble space telescope observations; quasar spectroscopy; light element abundances; variability in the Fundamental Constants.

Lecturers

Gail Box

Inversion of multispectral radiometer data to obtain information about aerosol size distribution; aerosols and the visual air quality of Sydney; relationship between physical and chemical properties of aerosols and their optical properties.

Peter Eyland

Spherical cap harmonic analysis.

Phillip Spark

Theories of galaxy formation, relationship between quasar and large scale galaxy distribution; theories of evolution of the universe at early epochs. Information technology in university physics education and associated uses of instructional design.

Krystyna Wilk

Isolation, characterisation and structure determination of algal light harvesting proteins. Research involves crystallisation of proteins and analysis of x-ray diffraction data obtained for protein crystals.

Emeritus Professors

Dan Haneman

Semiconductor surfaces, thin films, electroluminescence from modified silicon structures and oxides.

Heinrich Hora

Laser and plasma theory (quantum and relativistic effects) multivalley band theory for semiconductors.

H. Julian Goldsmid

Thermoelectric materials and devices.

Adjunct Professors

Barry Allen

Biomedical physics, particularly in the area of experimental radiation oncology and in vivo body composition

Brian Boyle

Cosmology, the large scale structure of the Universe and the properties of quasars.

Robert Robinson

Strongly correlated f-electron systems, magnetism in uranium intermetallics, the dynamics of amorphous materials and neutron-scattering instrumentation.

Adjunct Senior Lecturers

Nigel Freeman

Wallace Geldart

Critical phenomena in disordered systems, spin glasses, many-body theory, optical properties and atmospheric science.

Anatoly Rosenfeld

Research and development of silicon semiconductor radiation detectors for spectrometry and dosimetry of nuclear radiation with application in high energy physics and radiation oncology and diagnostic. Study of charge collection in silicon detectors and their radiation damage. Theoretical and experimental macro-micro dosimetry in mixed radiation fields on different radiation oncology modalities.

Richard Smart

Development and validation of internal dosimetry techniques with specific application to radionuclide therapy.

Visiting Professors

Jak Kelly

Solid state physics.

Valentin Ostrovsky

Atomic theory, including low-energy multielectron ionization, analytical approaches to atomic problems.

Graeme Russell

Properties of ultra-high quality, high-Tc superconducting single crystals based on the cuprates, and colossal magnetoresistance associated with the perovskite manganite materials; device applications; surface physics.

Alan Walker

Mechanisms of solute transport in plant cells; models for mycorrhizal infection and root growth in plants and of combined nitrogen movement through ecosystems.

Martin Zuckermann

Theoretical investigations of (i) the phase behaviour and physical properties of lipid bilayer membranes including lipid-sterol and lipid-protein interactions, membrane rupture (lysis) and the structure of lipid systems related to the stratum corneum of mammalian skin,(ii) polymer problems including the properties of polymer brushes and an examination of heteropolymer collapse with a view to understanding protein folding, (iii) kinetics of wetting for ternary systems containing surfactants, (iv) magnetism of weakly frustrated ferromagnets and (v) pattern formation on mammalian visual cortex.

Visiting Fellows

Arthur Anderson

Use of ultrasonic techniques to study oxygen related structural changes and processes in high temperature superconductors and the relationship of these phenomena to superconductivity.

Brett Church

Protein structure; molecular modelling; x-ray crystallography of proteins; drug design.

Michael Drinkwater

Hidden galaxies in the local universe. Leader of the Fornax Spectroscopic Survey in collaboration with A/Prof. Warrick Couch (UNSW) and A/Prof. Rachel Webster (Melbourne).

John Dunlop

Acoustics research (underwater, vibration, materials properties).

Madan Kaila

High temperature superconductor materials and devices; to develop materials/devices for optical/infrared radiation detection; carry out mathematical/computational modelling to design optimum performance detectors for use at 77K.

Galina Kaseko

Antibody response of human lymphocytes upon antigenic stimulation in vitro (in vitro immunisation of human lympjocytes).

David Monaghan

Low frequency impedance measurements and electromechanics of biological cells.

David Morton

Applied Physics.

Katrina Sealey

Quasar absorption lines, quasar surveys. Red bright quasar survey (RBQS) which is a large area optical survey designed to identify quasars with redshifts <4.

Ray Simons

Electrodialysis, diffusion dialysis, ultrafiltration, electric field effects on chemical reactions.

Leszek Swierkowski

Condensed matter theory: strongly correlated electron systems, magnetic semiconductors; spin glasses.

Johnathan A. Tedds

Shock excitation of molecular hydrogen in star forming regions.

Tohsak Mahaworasilpa

Effects of Electric Fields on Biological Cells; Electro-mechanics of Biological Cells; Electrical cell fusion for the production of human hybridomas; human Monoclonal Antibody Production from hybridomas.

Research Staff

Van Lap Dao

Femtosecond and picosecond laser; ultra fast laser spectroscopy.

Roberto DePropris

Galaxy formation and evolution: galaxy luminosity function, dwarfs, chemical evolution of ellipticals, stellar populations.

Andrew Dzurak

Quantum transport measurement and fabrication of semiconductor nanostructures; including applications for solid state quantum computation.

Hans-Peter Eckle

Electrical and mechanical properties of nanostructures using exact andor non-perturbative methods; exact solutions for low-dimensional quantum many-body systems.

Lutz Gaedt

Electro-disinfection of town water supplies from parasites; design of electro-chemical spacers for permanent enhancement of membrane filtration; and alternative energy sources and drive systems for automobiles.

Sayed Sadr Ghayeni

Water and wastewater treatment in general. Applications of artificial membranes (microfiltration, ultrafiltration, nanofiltration and reverse osmosis) in water and wastewater treatment; application of AC and DC electric fields for disinfection of (electrodisinfection) water, wastewater and biofluids; microbiology, chemistry of water and wastewater; chemistry of polymeric membranes.

Genda Gu

Single crystal growth, high temperature superconductivity; high temperature superconducting materials, solidification of a new material.

Alex Hamilton

Quantum transport phenomena in low dimensional semiconductor structures (2D quantum wells, ID quantum wires, and 0D quantum boxes), and the effects of inter-device interactions in multi-component semiconductor nanostructures; solid state quantum computation.

Steven Harrop

Structure and architecture of proteins by x-ray crystallography.

Michael Kuchiev

Multiphoton many-electron processes in atoms in strong laser fields. Atomic collisions which result in the final states with several low-energy charged particles; physics of instantons and its applications to quantum gravity.

Conrad Leonard

Hamiltonian Lattice gauge theory, coupled cluster method series expansions and the t-expansion cellular automata computer languages and high-performance algorithms.

Charles Lineweaver

Cosmology: temperature fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background; cosmological constant; combining constraints from the cosmic microwave background with constraints from other cosmological data; exobiology.

Heiner Linke

Experimental studies of electron dynamics in microscale semiconductor structures, in particular quantum interference; chaos, non-equilibrium and non-linear effects. Current focus is on quantum ratchet effects in asymmetric microstructures.

Nancy Lumpkin

Silicon and GaAs/A1GaAs nanofabrication process development.

Ross McKenzie

Condensed Matter Theory: models of strongly interacting electrons in low dimensions, organic superconductors, high magnetic fields, quantum phase transitions in disordered systems, spin-peierls systems.

Jaime Merino

Electronic properties of organic superconductors. Understanding the mechanism that drives these systems into a superconducting state.

Andre Phillips

Airborne remote sensing; infrared instrumentation and satellite communications.

Balasubramanyam Ramesh

Star formation, molecular clouds, radio telescopes and instrumentation.

Angie Schultz

Star formation, the interaction of young stellar outflows with ambient matter. Shocks, Herbig-Haro objects, molecular hydrogen in these shocks.

Virginia Shepherd

Plant cell biology; fluorescence microscopy, cytoskeleton, cell-to-cell communication, dynamic vacuoles, action potentials, the ascent of sap, Australian native fish (especially gudgeons), ostracods, life of temporary ponds, history and philosophy of science; life and work of JC Bose.

Michelle Simmons

Experimental studies of the nature of electrical conduction in ultra-high purity quantum transistors. In particular looking at the recently discovered metal-insulator transition in two dimensions using high quality hole systems in GaAs. Realisation of the solid state nuclear spin quantum computer in silicon.

Kiyonori Suzuki

Magnetic properties of nanocrystalline materials. Kinetics and thermodynamics of nonequilibrium materials; magneto-transport properties of materials.

Richard Taylor

Electronic properties of nano-scale semiconductor devices; the cellular basis of human brains, pattern recognition of abstract paintings.

Jagdish Thakur

Theoretical study of metal-insulator transition in two-dimensional electron gas, glass transition; theoretical investigation of one-dimensional quantum electron wire; superconductivity and other phase transition phenomena in low dimensional electronic systems.

Sang-Seop Yom

Thin film processing applied to a study of perovskite oxide materials for future electronics and device applications.

Wei Hong Zheng

Lattice gauge theory, statistical physics and condensed matter theory. Linked cluster expansion techniques; phase transition and critical point phenomena.

Research Assistants

Maria Chan

Biophysics

Christine Cherry

Biophysics

Melinda Taylor

Astrophysics

Casual Research Assistants

Jill Boecking

Biophysics

Tamara Reztsova

Biophysics

Cheryl Yue

Musical Acoustics

General Staff

Administrative Staff

Ranji Balalla

First Year Office

Sahar Behmann

Administration & Finance

Joji Conducto

Administration & Research

Christine Down

Administration & Finance

Renata Jones

SNF

Sophie Kinna

Administration & Research

Stephen Lo

Adminstration & Finance

Vanessa Werfel

Administration & Teaching

Professional Officers

Gabriel Caus

1^st Year Computing Laboratory

Terry Chilcott

Biophysics

Jack Cochrane

CMP (MM & AEM)

Vladimir Dziouba

Theoretical

John Everett

Astrophysics

David Jonas

Computing

Patrick McMillan

Third Year Laboratory

Barry Perczuk

Third Year Laboratory

John Tann

Optoelectronics & Musical Acoustic

Technical Consultant UNIX

Kristien Clayton

Computing

Senior Technical Officers

Michael Benton

Second Year Laboratory

Garry Keenan

Demonstration Unit

Andrea Skougarevsky

CMP & SNF

Technical Officers

Scott Dann

First Year Laboratory

Anthony Frith

First Year Laboratory

George Hatsidimitris

Administration

Ping Lau

Electronic Workshop

Mark Loo

Electronic Workshop

Dave Ryan

First Year Laboratory

Casual Technical Officer

Mushtaq Loan

Demonstration Unit

Casual Draftswoman

Cathy Faust

Administration

Laboratory Supervisor

Jack Sandall

Student Staff Workshop

Laboratory Assistant

Diana Edler

First Year Laboratory

Susan Fraser

Casual Laboratory Assistant

Annie Chan

SNF

Teck Han Lee

SNF

David Madina

SNF

Peter Stalley

SNF

Acting Foreman

Ken Jackson

Mechanical Workshop

Laboratory Craftsman

Pritipal Baweja

Mechanical Workshop

Peter Kramel

Store Officer

John Horvath

Administration

Casual Teaching Assistants

Nadia Court

First Year Labs

Cynthia Lopes

First Year Labs