Associate Professor Tapio Simula
D.Sc. (Tech.), Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
- School of Science, Computing and Engineering Technologies (SoSCET)
- Optical Sciences Centre
- EN138 Hawthorn campus
- ORCID profile
Biography
Associate Professor Tapio Simula was awarded a D.Sc. (Tech.) degree in physics in 2003 by Helsinki University of Technology. He then held postdoctoral positions at New Zealand (Otago), Denmark (Aarhus) and Japan (Okayama) before moving to Australia as a Monash Research Fellow in 2010. In 2019 he was awarded the Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellowship and moved to Swinburne University of Technology.
Tapio is a physicist (computational, experimental, and theoretical) with research interests in ultracold atoms, Bose-Einstein condensates, superfluidity, quantised vortices, quantum turbulence, topological quantum computation, analogue gravity and Floquet driven systems that break time-translation symmetry.
Research interests
Ultracold Quantum Gases; Dynamical systems; Fluid Mechanics
PhD candidate and honours supervision
Higher degrees by research
Accredited to supervise Masters & Doctoral students as Principal Supervisor.
PhD topics and outlines
Experimental Projects: Experimental projects will be offered in the area of hydrodynamical quantum analogs starting from mid 2019. See ___https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.06879___ Please contact Tapio via email to discuss possibilities in further detail.
Theory Projects: A broad range of theoretical and computational projects are available. Some recent examples can be found at ___ https://arxiv.org/a/simula_t_1.html ___ Please contact Tapio via email to discuss the possibilities in further detail.
Honours
Available to supervise honours students.
Honours topics and outlines
Experimental Projects: See PhD topics, these can be tailored to suit Honours Level
Theory Projects: See PhD topics, these can be tailored to suit Honours Level
Fields of Research
- Quantum Physics - 510800
Awards
- 2017, International, APS Outstanding Referee , American Physical Society
Publications
Also published as: Simula, Tapio; Simula, T.
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Recent research grants awarded
- 2019: Determining the mass and geometric phase of a superfluid vortex *; ARC Discovery Projects Scheme
* Chief Investigator
Recent media
- 2018-08-30: Radio Interview with Sonya Feldhoff - ABC Radio Adelaide
- 2015-12-14: Comment for: Unravelling Jupiter's giant storms - Cosmos Magazine
- 2014-11-04: The journey to the other side of absolute zero - The Conversation
- 2013-03-04: Comment for: 'Smoke rings' tie up physics challenge - ABC News in Science