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.
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.
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.
Paul Curmi
Structure and dynamics of biological macro-molecules; 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.
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).
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.
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.
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, electro-luminescence 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 Associate Professor
Anatoly
Rozenfeld
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.
Adjunct Senior Lecturers
Nigel Freeman
Medical physics
Richard Smart
Development and validation of internal dosimetry techniques with
specific application to modalities.
Visiting Professors
Andrew Briggs
CQCT
Gary Copeland
Astrophysics
Poul Erik Lindelof
Nanostructures
Alexandre Milchtein
Theoretical Physics - Solid State.
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.
Benno
Schoenborn
Biophysics - Neutron diffraction and impedance studies of important
biomolecules.
Rajiv Singh
Theoretical Physics - Solid State.
Gaetano Senatore
Theoretical Physics - Solid State.
Giancarlo Strinati
Theoretical Physics - Solid State.
Nobuyoshi Wakabayashi
School - R & D Exchange Programme.
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 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.
Peter Barnes
Astrophysics
Sin Moh Cheah
Membrane
Vladimir Dmitriev
Atomic and Nuclear Theory
Michael Drinkwater
Hidden galaxies in the local universe. Leader of the Fornax Spectroscopic
Survey in collaboration with Prof. Warrick Couch (UNSW) and A/Prof.
Rachel Webster (Melbourne).
Anthony Duff
Protein Structure
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).
Mikhail Kozlov
Atomic and Nuclear Theory
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.
Dominic Ryan
Atomic and nuclear magnetism in rare-earth compounds.
Ray Simons
Electrodialysis, diffusion dialysis, ultrafiltration, electric field
effects on chemical reactions.
Nasser Shahtahmasebi
Theoretical Physics — Solid State.
George Tsoupros
Atomic and Nuclear Theory.
Christopher Young
Photometric surveys of galaxies.
Research Staff
Kenji Bekki
Astrophysics; numerical simulations of galaxy processes.
Christopher Blake
Astrophysics; Large-scale structure studies using distant radio
galaxies; cosmology.
Louise Brown
Biophysics
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 tunneling 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.
Hsi-Sheng Goan
The strength of hyperfine and exchange inter-actions of P donors
in Si. Characterise sources of noise and decoherence in SETs.
Frederick Green
Theory of non-equilibrium transport and noise in nanostructures
and devices
Andrew Greentree
Application of coherent quantum optics to coherent electronic devices
for quantum computation. Investigation of the coherent/incoherent
interface.
Steven Harrop
Structure and architecture of proteins by x-ray crystallography.
Lucyna Kedziora-Chudczer
Millimeter-wave astronomy
Michael Kuchiev
Multiphoton many-electron processes in atoms in strong laser fields.
Atomic collisions which result in 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.
Linda Macks
Fabrication and measurement of quantum structures in the development
of quantum computer devices via the “top-down” process.
John Markham
Theoretical Phyics — Solid State.
Sean McPhail
Condensed matter physics. Electrical and optical measurement of
semiconductor quantum devices at milli-kelvin temperatures.
Adam Micolich
Experimental Studies of the electron properties of strongly interacting
semiconductor nano-structures. Fabrication and measurement of organic
electronics and nanodevices.
Vincent Minier
Astrophysics
Lars Oberbeck
Fabrication of atomic-scale devices in silicon using scanning tunneling
microscopy (STM) and molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) towards silicon
quantum computing.
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.
David Reilly
Physics of quantum-measurement of cryogenic (mK) temperatures, focussing
on radio-frequency single electro-transistors and spin interactions
in quantum wires.
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.
Fay Stanley
Nanofabrication and infrastructure development for the Integrated
Quantum Computer Devices program.
Marion Stevens-Kalceff
Condensed matter physics, microcharacterisation of the defect structure
of wideband gap materials, irradiation induced defect generation
and transformation, advanced electron microscope techniques and
scanning probe microscopy.
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
Alexandre Tarnopolsky
Musical Acoustics
Matthew Whiting
Astrophysics
Kate Wilson
Physics Education
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
Attila Stopic
Musical 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
Kim Puckey
CQCT
Alisha Toft
CQCT
Professional Officers
Nathan Boddam-Whetham
CQCT
Gabriel Caus
First Year Computing Laboratory
Terry Chilcott
Biophysics
Jack Cochrane
Magnetic Materials & Mesoscopic
Vladimir Dzuba
Theoretical
Jon Everett
Astrophysics
David Jonas
Computing
Ping Lau
Electronic Workshop
Patrick McMillan
Third Year Laboratory
Barry Perczuk
Third Year Laboratory
Bob Starrett
Semi-Conductors
Joanna Szymanska
CQCT
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
George Hatsidimitris
Webmaster
Garry Keenan
Demonstration Unit
Andre Skougarevsky
CMP & SNF
Technical Officers
Anthony Frith
First Year Laboratory
Mark Lu
Electronic Workshop
Dave Ryan
First Year Laboratory
Technical Assistants
Diana Edler
First Year Laboratory
Susan Fraser
First Year Laboratory
Acting Foreman
Ken Jackson
Mechanical Workshop
Laboratory Craftsman
Pritipal Baweja
Mechanical Workshop
Store Officer
John Horvath
Administration
Casual Research Assistants
Andrew Botros
Musical Acoustics
David Bowman
Musical Acoustics
Timothy Byrnes
Theoretical Physics
Jane Cavanagh
Musical Acoustics
Merlinde Kay
Atmospheric Physics
Benjamin Lange
Musical Acoustics
Yi Qin
Atmospheric Physics
Tamara Reztsova
Protein Structure
Sergey Rubanov
Condensed Matter Physics
Timothy Starling
SNF
Manfred Yew
Musical Acoustics
Casual Administrative Assistants
Andrew Gibson
CQCT
Renata Jones
CQTC
Peter Morrison
First Year
Yi Zhang
First Year
Casual Technical Officer
Jane Flemons
Membrane
Casual Technical Assistant
Mushtaq Loan
Demonstration Unit
Tamara Reztsova
Demonstration Unit
Jason Whittaker
Demonstration Unit
Casual Laboratory Supervisor
Jack Sandall
Student Staff Workshop
Casual Professional Officer
Rolf Brenner
CQCT
Terry Golombick
Membrane
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