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Research Supervisors - School of Physics

Supervisor Name Research Areas Telephone Email address
Dr. Csaba Balazs Supersymmery; extra dimensions; collider phenomenology; LHC; ILC; electroweak symmetry breaking; astro-particle physics; cosmology; dark matter detection; baryogenesis; dark energy. +61 3 990 20328 Csaba.Balazs @sci.monash.edu.au
Dr. Alexis Bishop Focusing jets of neutral molecules and atoms; slowing molecular beams; trapping neutral molecules; cooling free molecules to subkelvin temperatures; atom optics; optical tweezers. +61 3 990 55936 Alexis.Bishop @sci.monash.edu.au
Dr. Michael Brown Observational astronomy; galaxy evolution; wide-field imaging surveys; galaxies and dark matter halos. +61 3 990 54498 Michael.Brown@sci.monash.edu.au
A/Prof John Cashion Mossbauer spectroscopy; mineral processing and crystallography - particularly of gold and iron minerals and clays; new magnetic materials; electrochemistry. +61 3 990 53680 John.Cashion@sci.monash.edu.au
Dr. Helen Faulkner Phase retrieval; phase vortices; electron optics; X-ray optics; electron microscopy. +61 3 9905 4910 Helen.Faulkner@sci.monash.edu.au
Dr. Duncan Galloway Fundamental physics from neutron stars, via satellite X-ray observations including pulsar timing; analysis of thermonuclear bursts; and high-resolution spectroscopy. +61 3 9902 0393 Duncan.Galloway@sci.monash.edu.au
Dr. Chris Hall Biomedical applications of SAXS; X-ray phase contrast imaging; novel gamma ray detectors for nuclear medicine; cell markers for medical X-ray imaging. +61 3 990 55036 Chris.Hall@sync.monash.edu.au
Dr. Gregory Jakovodis Pairing mechanisms in high temperature cuprate superconductors; production of boron nitride and boron oxide nanoparticles. +61 3 9905 3686 Greg.Jakovidis@sci.monash.edu.au
Prof. David Jesson Low energy electron microscopy; surface physics; electron microscopy of light; theory of quantum dot self assembly. +61 3 990 59590 David.Jesson@sci.monash.edu.au
Prof. Rob Lewis Phase contrast X-ray imaging; biophysics; X-ray detectors; synchrotron science; SAXS; PET; high resolution silicon pixel detectors. +61 3 990 53622 Rob.Lewis@sync.monash.edu.au
A/Prof. Michael Morgan Topological defects, particle cosmology, geometric phases in physics, inverse problems, X-ray phase contrast imaging and nanodynamics +61 3 990 53645 Michael.Morgan@sci.monash.edu.au
A/Prof. Andrei Nikulin Synchrotron physics; 3-D nanoimaging; X-ray diffraction. +61 3 990 51353 Andrei.Nikulin@sci.monash.edu.au
Dr. David Paganin Phase retrieval; diffraction theory; inverse problems; BECs; Maslov indices in quantum systems; geometric phases; coherence theory; X-ray lithography; non-linear fields. +61 3 990 53633 David.Paganin@sci.monash.edu.au
Dr. Andrew Smith Diffraction theory; electronic structure calculations; surface and defect structure; statistical mechanics of nano- and meso-scale structures; theoretical metallurgy. +61 3 990 53699 Andrew.Smith@sci.monash.edu.au
Dr. Imants Svalbe Discrete image transforms; nonlinear filtering; medical imaging. +61 3 990 53679 Imants.Svalbe@sci.monash.edu.au