Professor

Yuri Kivshar

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Yuri Kivshar
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Professor Kivshar has established himself as a world leader in nonlinear optics, a subject of central importance to the development of photonics. For this work he received in 1995 the International Pnevmatikos award for research in nonlinear phenomena. He has developed the theory of self-trapped beams (spatial solitons) for alloptical nonlinear switching devices and also the first nonlinear theory of stability of multi-parameter nonlinear solitary waves. This has been applied by others to many different physical problems. He has worked closely with several experimental groups in verifying many of his predictions.

Fields of research

51 PHYSICAL SCIENCES
  • 205 OPTICAL PHYSICS

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Expertise type

  • Optical Fibres
  • Nanotechnology
  • Nonlinear Optics
  • Optics
  • Photonics
  • Physics

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Professor

Victor Flambaum

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Victor Flambaum
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Professor Flambaum produced important results in the area of violation of fundamental symmetries. With his co-workers, these results included the prediction of a 10"6 fold enhancement of parity violation in neutronnucleus reactions which opened a new area of research; the first calculation of the nuclear anapole moment and the suggestion of atomic experiments which lead to measurement of this moment in 1997. Also provided were the most accurate calculations of parity violation in atoms. His Australian works include predictions of collective effects of time invariance violation in nuclei, quantum chaos in complex atoms, and a new statistical theory of finite Fermi systems based on the properties of chaotic eigenstates.

Expertise type

  • Atomic Physics
  • Astrophysics
  • Particle Physics
  • Physics
  • Theoretical Physics

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Professor

Gerard Milburn

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Gerard Milburn
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Professor Milburn is internationally respected for his fundamental theoretical contributions to quantum optics, quantum stochastic processes, quantum chaos and quantum measurement theory. He pioneered the study of squeezed states of light and optical quantum nondemolition measurements. In 1988 he published one of the first papers in the new field of quantum computing. Milburn, together with H Wiseman, pioneered the first consistent quantum stochastic treatment of quantum control theory. He has made an extensive contribution to the study of quantum chaos particularly in the context of atom optics, and gave one of the first solvable examples of decoherence in nonlinear dynamics.

Expertise type

  • Physics
  • Quantum Information Theory
  • Quantum Optics
  • Quantum Physics

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Professor

George Dracoulis

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George Dracoulis
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Professor Dracoulis has made important contributions to the spectroscopy of very neutron-deficient nuclei and to the understanding of unusual Nuclear states, particularly through the elucidation of the interplay between single-particle and collective degrees of freedom. These contributions have come through a commitment to both theoretical interpretation and to comprehensive and definitive time-correlated γ-ray and electron nuclear spectroscopy, for which he has an international reputation. This has placed Dracoulis's group amongst the recognised leaders in the field.

Expertise type

  • Nuclear Physics
  • Physics

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Professor

Michael Dopita

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Michael Dopita
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Dr Dopita is one of the top two or three international authorities in the very active field of interstellar astrophysics. His range of achievements in theoretical astrophysics and ground-based and space observational astrophysics is extraordinarily broad. He has made fundamental contributions to research on astrophysical plasma diagnostics, star formation in galaxies, the physics of planetary nebulae, supernova remnants, active galactic nuclei and radio jets. He is a major user of the Hubble Space Telescope, and his prestige and judgement were recognised by his appointment to the Hubble Space Telescope Time Assignment Committee.

Expertise type

  • Interstellar Plasma Physics
  • Astronomy
  • Galaxy Evolution
  • Physics

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Professor

Peter Hannaford

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Peter Hannaford
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Distinguished for his contributions to atomic spectroscopy including:- the analysis and interpretation of the profiles of atomic resonance lines emitted by hollow-cathode atomic spectral lamps; the development of methods of generating atomic vapours by cathodic sputtering; the realization that such vapours would greatly facilitate many fundamental investigations by high-resolution and time-resolved laser spectroscopy; the application of such methods to the accurate determination of the atomic lifetimes of refractory elements including zirconium, yttrium, niobium, molybdenum and vanadium, leading to revised measurements of their solar abundances. These contributions constitute the creation of this increasingly important new field of laser spectroscopy with sputtered atoms.

Expertise type

  • Laser Spectroscopy
  • Optics
  • Physics
  • Ultrafast Spectroscopy

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Professor

Stjepan Marcelja

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Stjepan Marcelja
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From the beginning of his career Stjepan Marcelja has made seminal, profoundly deep, succinct contributions to numerous fields: superconductivity, liquid crystals, membrane biophysics, colloid science, molecular forces and water structure, self assembly of biological molecules, solution theory, neural nets and artificial intelligence. Invariably these contributions are highly original, have immediate impact and have stood the test of time. Almost all of his papers mark the beginning of a whole rich new field of scientific endeavour, whether in the biological or physical sciences.

Expertise type

  • Chemistry
  • Colloids
  • Physical Chemistry
  • Surfaces

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Professor

Anthony Thomas

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Anthony Thomas
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Professor Thomas has an outstanding international reputation on the borderline of nuclear and particle physics. He developed an understanding of pion-nucleus interactions and nuclear structure based initially on a three-body calculation of the pion-nucleon-nucleon system. His cloudy bag model describes the nucleon as three confined quarks obeying chiral symmetry through interaction with a pion cloud. It predicts important nucleon properties such as the neutron charge distribution and describes the nucleon in the presence of other nucleons which helps to understand the apparent dependence of nucleon structure on the nuclear environment.

Fields of research

51 PHYSICAL SCIENCES
  • 5106 NUCLEAR AND PLASMA PHYSICS
    • 510601 Nuclear Physics
  • 5107 PARTICLE AND HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
    • 510703 Particle Physics

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Expertise type

  • High Energy Physics
  • Nuclear Physics
  • Particle Physics
  • Physics

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Professor

Bruce McKellar

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Bruce McKellar
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Professor McKellar's work on the borderline of nuclear and particle physics has earned him international distinction. He is a pioneer and leader in the study of the part of the nucleon-nucleon force due to the weak interaction. He has made major contributions in the application of meson theory to the study of many-body forces in nuclei, which is necessary for a fully-quantitative understanding of nuclear structure. His recent work on nucleon structure and decay promises to be very significant for particle physics and astrophysics.

Fields of research

49 MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES
  • 4902 MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS
    • 490203 Mathematical aspects of classical mechanics, quantum mechanics and quantum infor
51 PHYSICAL SCIENCES
  • 5102 ATOMIC, MOLECULAR AND OPTICAL PHYSICS
  • 5107 PARTICLE AND HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
    • 510703 Particle Physics

For full list of research codes, please visit the ARC Website .

Expertise type

  • Nuclear Physics
  • Particle Physics
  • Atmospheric Physics
  • High Energy Physics
  • Physics
  • Theoretical Physics

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Professor

Erich Weigold

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Erich Weigold
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Weigold is a world leader in experiments with electron beams incident on atoms and molecules. His work has had outstanding significance in investigating the mechanism of such reactions, in particular all aspects of the Coulomb three-body problem. He pioneered electron momentum spectroscopy, which is a probe of unprecedented power for electronic structure. It arises from his understanding of the mechanism of an (e,2e) coincidence experiment. A kinematic range can be found where the experiment directly observes spherically-averaged squares of momentum-space orbitals and critical aspects of many-electron wave functions.

Fields of research

51 PHYSICAL SCIENCES
  • 5102 ATOMIC, MOLECULAR AND OPTICAL PHYSICS
    • 510201 Atomic and Molecular Physics
  • 5104 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS
    • 510402 Condensed Matter Imaging

For full list of research codes, please visit the ARC Website .

Expertise type

  • Chemical Physics
  • Condensed Matter Physics
  • Physics
  • Quantum Mechanics

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