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 (on leave in 2000)
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.
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.
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.
John Webb
Cosmology, hubble space telescope observations; quasar spectroscopy;
light element abundances; variability in the Fundamental Constants.
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 instrumentations; 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 center; millimeter 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.
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; optimization of impedance measurements
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, characterization and structure determination of algal
light harvesting proteins. Research involves crystallization 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
Cosomology, the large scale structure of the Universe and the properties
of quasars.
Robert Robinson
Strongly correlated ƒ-electron systems, magnetism in uranium
intermetallics, the dynamics of amorphous materials and neutron-scattering
instrumentation.
Adjunct Senior Lecturers
Nigel Freeman
Medical physics
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 change 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 modalities.
Visiting Professors
Wallace Geldart
Critical phenomena in disordered systems, spin glasses, many-body
theory, optical properties and atmospheric science.
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
Theoritical 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 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 of 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.
Boris Altshuler
William Barford
Maria Chan
Brett Church
Protein structure; molecular modeling; 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).
Frederick Green
Theory of non-equilibrium transport and noise in nanostructures
and devices
Christian Gruber
Flex Izrailex
Walter Johnson
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 immunization of human lymphocytes).
Qiang Li
Poul-Erik Lindelof
Bradley Marston
Adam Micolich
Condensed matter physics
David Monaghan
Low frequency impedance measurements and electromechanics of biological
cells.
Oscar Moze
Neutron scattering
Selma Ozturk
Lamberto Rondoni
Anders Sandvik
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.
Dima Shepelyansky
Ray Simons
Electrodialysis, diffusion dialysis, ultrafiltration, electric field
effects on chemical reactions.
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.
George Tsoupros
Mathias Wagner
Christopher Young
Research Staff
Kenji Bekki
The Department of Astrophysics & Optics
Michael Brunner
Robert Bursill
The theory of excited states in congugated molecules, computational
quantum chemistry, low-dimensional systems in condensed matter,
lattice gauge theory.
Paolo Calisse
Antarctic astronomy
Neil Curson
Van Lap Dao
Femtosecond and pioconsecond 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. Application 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 which result in the final states
with several low-energy charged particles; physics of instantons
and its application to quantum gravity.
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
Silcon 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.
Igor Polonsky
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, cytoskelton, 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.
Ernestas Zasinas
Wei Hong Zheng
Lattice gauge theory, statistical physics and condensed matter theory.
Linked cluster expansion techniques; phase transition and critical
point phenomena.
Research Assistants
Christine Cherry
Biophysics
Melinda Taylor
The Department of Astrophysics & Optics
Bronwyn Steadman
SNF
Administrative Staff
Ranji Balalla
First Year Office
Joji Conducto
Administration & Research
Patricia Furst
Administration & Teaching
Susan Hagon
Teaching
Gavin Hicks
QCTC
Karen Jury
QCTC
Sophie Kinna
Administration & Research
Stephen Lo
Administration & Finance
Vanessa Werfel
Administration & Teaching
Professional Officers
Gabriel Caus
First Year Computing Laboratory
Terry Chilcott
Biophysics
Jack Cochrane
CMP and MM
Scott Dann
First Year Laboratory
Vladimir Dzuba
Theoretical
Jon Everett
The Department of Astrophysics & Optics
David Jonas
Computing
Patrick McMillan
Third Year Laboratory
Barry Perczuk
Third Year Laboratory
Bob Starrett
Semi-Conductors
John Tann
Optoelectronics & Musical Acoustics
Frank Wright
SNF
Technical Consultant UNIX
Kristien Clayton
Computing
Cryogenics Manager
David Barber
CQCT
Senior Technical Officers
Michael Benton
Second Year Laboratory
Garry Keenan
Demonstration Unit
Andre Skougarvesky
CMP & SNF
Technical Officers
Anthony Frith
First Year Laboratory
George Hatsidimitris
Administration
Ping Lau
Electronic Workshop
Mark Lu
Electronic Workshop
Dave Ryan
First Year Laboratory
Laboratory Assistants
Diana Edler
First Year Laboratory
Susan Fraser
First Year Laboratory
Acting Foreman
Ken Jackson
Mechanical Workshop
Laboratory Craftsmen
Pritipal Baweja
Mechanical Workshop
Peter Kramel
Mechanical Workshop
Store Officer
John Horvath
Administration
Casual Research Assistants
Jill Boecking
Biophysics
Jane Cavanagh
Musical Acoustics
Tamara Reztsova
Protein Structure
Casual Administrative Assistants
Christine Down
Administration
Renata Jones
CQTC
Helen Janson
CQTC
Casual Technical Officer
Jane Flemons
Membrane
Mushtaq Loan
Demonstration Unit
Casual Laboratory Supervisor
Jack Sandall
Student Staff Workshop
Casual Stores Officer
Ron Amor
Administration
Casual Teaching Assistants
Nadia Court
First Year Labs
Cynthia Lopes
First Year Labs
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