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Staff
from the School of Physics
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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.
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
Michael
Ashley
Astronomical instrumentation; infrared astronomy in Antarctica;
optical transients from gamma ray bursts; wide-field photometric
surveys.
Seán
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Michelle
Simmons
Experimental condensed matter physics: nanofabrication and cryogenic
measurement of quantum electronic devices. Understanding how ultra-pure,
low dimensional systems conduct electricity. Atomic-scale fabrication
of a solid-state silicon-based nuclear spin quantum computer using
scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and molecular beam epitaxy (MBE).
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
Maria
Hunt
Molecular Line Astronomy; Millimetre Wave Astronomy; Observational
Interstellar Chemistry; Biomolecules in the Interstellar Medium;
Chemistry of Star Formation Regions.
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
Cosmology, 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 Associate
Professor
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.
Adjunct Senior
Lecturers
Nigel
Freeman
Medical physics
Richard
Smart
Development and validation of internal dosimetry techniques with
specific application to modalities.
Visiting
Professors
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 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.
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).
Anthony
Duff
Protein structure
Hans-Peter
Eckle
Electrical and mechanical properties of nanostructures using exact
and/or non-perturbative methods; exact solutions for low-dimensional
quantum many-body systems.
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.
Walter
Kalceff
CQCT
Galina
Kaseko
Antibody response of human lymphocytes upon antigenic stimulation
in vitro (in vitro immunization of human lymphocytes).
Poul-Erik
Lindelof
Nanostructures
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.
Mykhaylo
Marchenko
Atomic theory
Adam
Micolich
Condensed matter physics
David
Monaghan
Low frequency impedance measurements and electromechanics of biological
cells.
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.
George
Tsoupros
Atomic theory
Christopher
Young
Photometric surveys of galaxies
Visiting Associate
Louise
Griffiths
Cosmology, the large scale structure of the Universe
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Research Staff
Kenji
Bekki
Astrophysics
Michael
Brunner
Theoretical Physics
Robert
Bursill
The theory of excited states in conjugated molecules, computational
quantum chemistry, low-dimensional systems in condensed matter,
lattice gauge theory.
Stephen
Curran
Astrophysics - observational cosmology
Neil
Curson
Fabrication of nanoscale devices and studies into gas/surface reactions,
using scanning tunnelling microscopy.
Roberto
DePropris
Galaxy formation and evolution; galaxy luminosity function, dwarfs,
chemical evolution of ellipticals, stellar populations.
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.
Frederick
Green
Theory of non-equilibrium transport and noise in nanostructures
and devices
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 application
to quantum gravity.
Jon
Lawrence
Astrophysics
Gilles
Lerondel
Optoelectronics
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.
Linda
Macks
CQCT
Sean
McPhail
Condensed Matter Physics. Electrical and optical measurement of
semiconductor quantum devices at milli-Kelvin temperatures.
Vincent
Minier
Astrophysics
Lars
Oberbeck
Epitaxial growth of silicon layers.
Andre
Phillips
Airborne remote sensing; infrared instrumentation and satellite
communications.
Igor
Polonsky
Atmospheric physics; radiative transfer.
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.
Fay
Stanley
CQCT
Marion
Stevens-Kalceff
Condensed matter physics
Boaquin
Sun
Optoelectronics
Kiyonori
Suzuki
Magnetic properties of nanocrystalline materials. Kinetics and thermodynamics
of nonequilibrium materials; magneto-transport properties of materials.
Tooru
Taniguchi
Theoretical physics
Ernestas
Zasinas
Theoretical physics
Wan
Hua Zheng
Optoelectronics
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
Attila
Stopic
Acoustics
Melinda
Taylor
Astrophysics
Administrative
Staff
Ranji
Balalla
First Year Office
Joji
Conducto
Administration & Finance
Patricia
Furst
Administration & Teaching
Susan
Hagon
Teaching
Gavin
Hicks
CQCT
Karen
Jury
CQCT
Venus
Lim
CQCT
Stephen
Lo
Administration & Finance
Professional
Officers
Gabriel
Caus
First Year Computing Laboratory
Terry
Chilcott
Biophysics
Jack
Cochrane
Mesoscopics and Magnetic Materials
Scott
Dann
First Year Laboratory
Vladimir
Dzuba
Theoretical
Jon
Everett
Astrophysics
David
Jonas
Computing
Patrick
McMillan
Third Year Laboratory
Barry
Perczuk
Third Year Laboratory
Bob
Starrett
Quantum Measurement and Pulse Magnetic Measurement Fields
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
Gary
Keenan
Demonstration Unit
Andre
Skougarevsky
CMP & SNF
Technical Officers
Anthony
Frith
First Year Laboratory
George
Hatsidimitris
Webmaster
Ping
Lau
Electronic Workshop
Mark
Lu
Electronic Workshop
Dave
Ryan
First Year Laboratory
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Virginia Shepherd, Dr Mary Beilby and student Ilana Benjaminson
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Technical
Assistant
Diana
Edler
First Year Laboratory
Susan
Fraser
First Year Laboratory
Engineering
Manager
Trevor Hislop
Mechanical andElectronic Workshops
Acting
Foreman
Ken Jackson
Mechanical Workshop
Laboratory
Craftsmen
Pritipal Baweja
Mechanical Workshop
Store
Officer
John Horvath
Administration
Casual Research
Assistants
Till
Boecking
Biophysics
Andrew
Botros
Musical Acoustics
Lisa
Caldalano
Condensed Matter
Ryan
France
Musical Acoustics
Merlinde
Kay
Atmospheric
Sue
Min Liu
Membrane
Katia
Pecros
CQCT
Yi
Qin
Atmospheric
Tamara
Reztsova
Protein Structure
Timothy
Starling
SNF
Manfred
Yew
Musical Acoustics
Casual Administrative
Assistants
Renata
Jones
CQCT
Helena
Jenson
CQCT
Casual Technical
Officer
Jane
Flemons
Membrane
Casual Technical
Assistant
Mushtaq
Loan
Demonstration Unit
Jason
Whittaker
Demonstration Unit
Casual Laboratory
Supervisor
Jack
Sandall
Staff and Student Workshop
Casual Stores
Officer
Ron
Amor
Administration
Casual Teaching
Assistants
Ying
Zhou
First Year Office
Rodolph
Salib
First Year Office
Casual Laboratory
Assistant
Jae
Ki Han
SNF
Casual Professional
Officers
Rolf
Brenner
CQCT
Terry
Golombick
Membrane
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