Affiliate of ARC COE for Engineered Quantum Systems (EQUS)
ARC COE for Engineered Quantum Systems
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Affiliate of ARC COE in Quantum Biotechnology (QUBIC)
ARC COE in Quantum Biotechnology
Faculty of Science
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Professor Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop’s research interests are in the fields of atom optics, laser micromanipulation, nano optics, quantum computing and biophotonics.
She has long standing experience with lasers, linear and nonlinear high-resolution spectroscopy, laser micromanipulation, and atom cooling and trapping. She was one of the originators of the widely used laser enhanced ionisation spectroscopy technique and is well known for her recent work in laser micromanipulation. She has been also working (Nanotechnology Laboratory, Göteborg, Sweden) in the field of nano- and microfabrication in order to produce the microstructures needed for optically driven micromachines and tips for the scanning force microscopy with optically trapped stylus. Recently she led the team that observed dynamical tunnelling in quantum chaotic system. Additionally Prof. Rubinsztein-Dunlop has led the new effort into development of new nano-structured quantum dots for quantum computing and other advanced device related applications.
Affiliate of ARC COE for Engineered Quantum Systems (EQUS)
ARC COE for Engineered Quantum Systems
Faculty of Science
Senior Lecturer in CMP
School of Mathematics and Physics
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Dr Peter Jacobson leads the SPMQT Lab at UQ.
For up-to-date information, please see the SPMQT Lab site (https://spmqt.org/).
Dr Peter Jacobson's research interests are: Materials for Quantum Technology, Scanning Probe Microscopy (STM/AFM), and more!
He received his PhD from Tulane University (New Orleans, USA) in 2012.
Before coming to UQ in June 2019, he worked at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research (Stuttgart, Germany) and Uni Graz (Graz, Austria).
Dr. Pavlina Naydenova is a National Intelligence Postdoctoral Grant Research Fellow at the University of Queensland and an affiliate of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Quantum Biotechnology. She investigates protein dynamics at the single molecule level using biomolecular optomechanics. Her research interests lie in the application of quantum tools to
understand the behavior of single proteins and their dynamics on an individual level as well as the interactions between proteins in biomolecular condensates.
Dr Sasheva earned her PhD in pharmacognosy and phytochemistry from the Medical University of Sofia, Bulgaria, where she was recognized for her research on plant-derived small molecules for chemotherapy.
Dr Gabriele Tartaglino-Mazzucchelli's research interests include topics in theoretical physics of fundamental interactions and mathematical physics like supersymmetry, supergravity and superspaces in various space-time dimensions, quantum field theory, extended supersymmetry, covariant formulations of superstrings, complex geometry, quantum gravity, holography, (A)dS/CFT and integrability.
Since October 2019 Dr Tartaglino-Mazzucchelli has joined the School of Mathematics & Physics at the University of Queensland (UQ) as Senior Lecturer (Level C), Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow. Currently, he is an Amplify Fellow at UQ.
Dr Tartaglino-Mazzucchelli's obtained his PhD at the University of Milano Bicocca in November 2006. After that, and before joining UQ, he has held several academic appointments and fellowships in Australia (UQ and The University of Western Australia), Belgium (KULeuven U.), Sweden (Uppsala U.), Switzerland (Bern U.), and the USA (Maryland U.).
So far in his career, Dr Tartaglino-Mazzucchelli's successfully attracted competitive research grants and awards for approximately 2.5 million Australian dollars, including, among other grants, a Marie Curie fellowship, an ARC DECRA award, and an ARC Future Fellowship – some of the most prestigious fellowships available to early and middle career researchers in Europe and Australia – and two ARC Discovery Projects, one recently awarded as first Chief Investigator.
Dr Verdi's research is in the field of computational materials physics. Her work employs first-principles or ab initio methods, complemented by machine learning techniques, to predict and understand physical properties of materials without relying on empirical models. For more information, visit the research group website.
She received her doctorate from the University of Oxford in 2017. After working at the University of Oxford and the University of Vienna, Dr Verdi moved to the University of Sydney in 2023 as an ARC DECRA Fellow. In the same year, she then joined UQ as a Lecturer in Condensed Matter Physics. She is an associate investigator of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum Biotechnology (QUBIC).
Her current research focuses on understanding the structural, optical and thermodynamic properties of atomic defects for applications in quantum technologies. She is also interested in studying the influence of atomic vibrations, defects, temperature and disorder on the intrinsic properties of various functional materials that can be exploited for novel technologies. Feel free to reach out to Dr Verdi if you are interested in simulating materials properties from first principles using supercomputers and exploring how this can help develop better materials.
Dr Baker’s research to date has been broadly focussed in the area cavity-optomechanics, with expertise in a range of related topics including superfluid physics, on-chip photonics, nanomechanical logic and micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS).
He received a PhD in Physics from the University of Paris in 2013 for work in the field of cavity optomechanics.
He is currently an ARC DECRA Fellow physicist at the University of Queensland, working in the Queensland Quantum Optics Laboratory with Professor Warwick Bowen.
You can read more about his research and access his latest publications on his personal website.
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Dr. Karl Bertling has made significant contributions to pioneering imaging and sensing via laser feedback interferometry, spanning diverse laser technologies including sensors based on visible lasers, infrared surface-emitting lasers, mid-infrared inter-band cascade lasers, and terahertz quantum cascade lasers. His current research focus includes leveraging terahertz quantum cascade laser feedback interferometry for early melanoma detection and agri-photonics, as well as near-field terahertz and mid-infrared imaging of nanomaterials and nanostructures.
Dr Phillip Isaac is a mathematician interested in algebraic structures, particularly those related to quantum integrable systems.
Phillip received his PhD in mathematics in May 2001 from UQ. The title of his thesis was "Quasi Hopf superalgebras and their dual structures".
He worked as a JAVA programmer/cryptographer for about 9 months before undertaking a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Tokyo, Japan. His project was entitled "Symmetries in quantum spin chains".
After his return to Australia in September 2003, he began casual employment at UQ, working as a first year tutor and developing course materials.
His current research activities involve developing the constructive representation theory of Lie (super)algebras, quantum groups and related structures, and its utility in application, particularly to quantum integrable systems.
Affiliate of ARC COE: Future low energy electronics technologies (FLEET)
ARC COE: Future low energy electronics technologies
Faculty of Science
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Physics
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Dr. Matt Reeves completed his PhD degree in theoretical physics from the University of Otago (New Zealand) in 2016. During his PhD, he worked in the field of vortex dynamics and turbulence in quantum fluids, under the supervision of Dr. Ashton Bradley.
In 2017, he joined the group of Prof. Matthew Davis at the University of Queensland as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow, studying far-from-equilibrium physics in exciton-polariton and atomic Bose-Einstein condensates.
Affiliate of ARC COE for Engineered Quantum Systems (EQUS)
ARC COE for Engineered Quantum Systems
Faculty of Science
Associate Professor
School of Mathematics and Physics
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Jacinda Ginges is a theoretical physicist in the School of Mathematics and Physics at UQ. Her research is directed towards atomic tests of fundamental physics, involving development and application of high-precision many-body methods for heavy atoms. Her areas of expertise include high-precision studies of fundamental symmetries violations (parity, time) and probes of nuclear structure. Atomic parity violation studies provide some of the tightest constraints on possible new physics beyond the standard model of particle physics, complementing searches for new physics at the LHC and dark matter searches. Studies of parity- and time-reversal-violating atomic electric dipole moments tightly constrain possible new sources of CP-violation appearing in theories beyond the standard model.
Positions:
2024- Associate Professor, The University of Queensland, Australia
2018- Senior Lecturer, The University of Queensland, Australia
2018-2022 ARC Future Fellow, The University of Queensland, Australia
2017 Research Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems, The University of Sydney, Australia
2014-2016 Senior Research Associate, UNSW Sydney, Australia
2004-2008 ARC Australian Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer, UNSW Sydney, Australia
2004 Avadh Bhatia Postdoctoral Fellowship for Women, University of Alberta, Canada
