
Distinguished Professor Peter Hannaford
- School of Science
- Centre for Quantum and Optical Science
- Department of Physics and Astronomy
- EN134 Hawthorn campus
Biography
Professor Hannaford received a BSc, MSc and PhD from the University of Melbourne. He was a Chief Research Scientist at CSIRO in Clayton, Australia before moving to Swinburne University of Technology in 2001 to become Director of the Centre for Atom Optics and Ultrafast Spectroscopy and a University Distinguished Professor. He is currently a Professor Emeritus at Swinburne University and leader of the Time Crystals project within the Optical Sciences Centre. He has been a visiting scientist at the University of Reading, UK; Griffith University, Brisbane; the University of Otago, NZ; the University of Oxford, UK; the Max-Planck-Institute for Quantum Optics, Garching, Germany; the European Laboratory for Nonlinear Spectroscopy, Florence, Italy; the Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris; and the University of Innsbruck, Austria.
Research interests
Ultracold atoms; Bose Einstein condensation; Atom optics; Femtosecond laser spectroscopy; Laser atomic physics; Ultracold Fermi gases
PhD candidate and honours supervision
Higher degrees by research
Accredited to supervise Masters & Doctoral students as Principal Supervisor.
PhD topics and outlines
Simulation of Condensed Matter Phenomena using Ultracold Atoms in a Magnetic Lattice
Fields of Research
- Degenerate Quantum Gases And Atom Optics - 510801
- Nonlinear Optics And Spectroscopy - 510203
Awards
- 2023, National, Companion of the Order of Australia, Australian Government
- 2021, National, Beattie Steel Medal , Australian and New Zealand Optical Society
- 2013, Swinburne, Vice-Chancellor's Research Excellence Team Award, Swinburne University of Technology
- 2004, National, Australian Academy of Science Lloyd Rees Lecturer, Australian Academy of Science
- 2002, National, Centenary Medal for service to Australian society and science in laser spectroscopy, Australian Government
- 2001, International, Elsevier Spectrochimica Acta Atomic Spectroscopy Award, Elsevier
- 1991, National, Fellow, Australian Academy of Science, Australian Academo of Science
- 1991, National, Australian Academy of Science Exchange Fellowship, Oxford, UK, Australian Academy of Science
- 1990, National, Royal Society of Victoria Research Medal, Royal Society of Victoria
- 1989, International, Royal Society Guest Research Fellowship, Oxford, UK, Royal Society of London
- 1987, National, Fellow, Australian Institute of Physics, Australian Institute of Physics
- 1985, National, Walter Boas Medal, Australian Institute of Physics
- 1984, International, William Evans Visiting Fellowship, NZ, University of Otago
- 1981, International, Science Research Council, Senior Visiting Research fellowship, UK, Science Research Council, UK
Publications
Also published as: Hannaford, Peter; Hannaford, P.
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Recent research grants awarded
- 2019: Building Time Crystals with Ultracold Atoms *; ARC Discovery Projects Scheme
- 2018: Australian Quantum Gas Microscope *; ARC Linkage Infrastructure and Equipment Scheme
- 2017: Generation and application of multi-colour ultrashort soft X-ray pulses *; ARC Discovery Projects Scheme
- 2007: Development and application of a multifunction multidimentional ultrafast laser spectrometer (MMULS) (Lastek Laboratories Pty Ltd) *; Lastek Pty Ltd - Donation
- 2005: ARC Centre of Excellence for Coherent X-ray Science *; ARC Centre of Excellence Scheme
- 2003: ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum Atom Optics *; ARC Centre of Excellence Scheme
* Chief Investigator
Recent media
- 2009-08-31: Cold Waves - The Age
- 2009-05-30: Photosynthesis comes into the light - Science Alert
- 2008-06-19: Disease arms-race looks to powerful new X-ray tools - Science Alert
- 2008-04-08: Atom chip to open frontiers unknown - Science Alert