DR. KENNETH G. H. BALDWIN

CURRICULUM VITAE

Position:

DEPUTY DIRECTOR

Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering

and

DEPUTY DIRECTOR

Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence
for Quantum Atom-Optics

Date of Birth:

26th November, 1954

Academic Qualifications:

B.Sc.: First Class Honours in Physics, the Department of Physics, The Australian National University, 1977.
Thesis: Resonance broadening of the hydrogen Balmer-alpha line.

M.Sc.: The Laser Group, Engineering Physics Department, Research School of Physical Sciences, A.N.U. 1979.
Thesis: Laser induced ionization of argon.

Ph.D.: The Spectroscopy Group, the Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, University of London, 1983.
Thesis: Lyman-alpha laser and emission studies of a non-Debye z-pinch plasma.

D.I.C.: Diploma of Imperial College, 1983.

Awards and Honours:

Fellow, Institute of Physics UK, June, 2006.

Director-at-Large, Board of the Optical Society of America, January, 2006

Eureka Prize for Promoting Understanding of Science, Australia Museum, August, 2004

Fellow, Optical Society of America, February, 2000.

Fellow, Australian Institute of Physics, April, 1995.

Australian Academy of Science young researcher, representing Australia at the 12th Physics Nobel Prize Winners Congress, Lindau, W Germany, 1-5 July, 1985.

The Rutherford Scholar of the Royal Society, 1979. The Rutherford Scholarship is awarded competitively each year by the Royal Society to one graduate in the experimental sciences in the British Commonwealth.

Research Interests:

The use of laser radiation to cool, trap and manipulate metastable helium atoms for the creation of atom optic devices (including hollow optical fibre waveguides and atom lithography), for the study of the quantum statistical properties of Bose-Einstein condensates, and for applications to atomic physics

The development of nonlinear optical techniques for the generation of coherent VUV radiation, with applications to high resolution VUV laser spectroscopy of environmentally important atmospheric molecules and of atomic structure

Publications:

81 refereed publications, 183 conference papers, 17 invited/postdeadline conference talks.

Appointments:

January 2003:

Deputy Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum-Atom Optics

and (since November 2005)

Deputy Director, Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, ANU

January 2004 - present:

Senior Fellow in the Atomic and Molecular Physics Laboratories, Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, ANU

July 2001 - December 2003:

Senior Fellow in the Laser Physics Centre, Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, ANU

April 1992 - July 2001:

Fellow in the Laser Physics Centre, Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, ANU

July 1991 - April 1992:

Senior Research Fellow in the Laser Physics Centre, Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, ANU

October 1984 - September 1986:

Postdoctoral Fellow in the Atomic and Molecular Physics Laboratory, Research School of Physical Sciences, ANU

October 1982 - August 1984:

UK Science and Engineering Research Council postdoctoral researcher at Imperial College, London, and at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Central Laser Facility, UK

October 1986 - June 1991:

Research Fellow in the Laser Physics Centre, Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, ANU

Visiting Appointments

Visiting Professor, University of Innsbruck, December/January, 2006/7.

Australian Academy of Science, Scientific Visits to Europe, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, 20 August - 13 October 2001.

Guest researcher at the National Institute for Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, 2 July - 8 December, 1992.

Visiting Research Associate at the University of Maryland, 2 July - 8 December, 1992.

Appointments to International Bodies

Optical Society of America (Fellow, 2000)
        - OpticsNet Advisory Committee, 1995 - 1996
        - OSA International Advisory Board member, 1996 - 97
        - Director-at-Large, OSA Board, 2006 - 2008
        - OSA International Council, 2006 - 2008

International Council on Quantum Electronics
        - Chair, 2002 - 2005
        - Administrative Board Member (one of 3), 1998 - 2002
        - Australian Representative, 1996 - 2002

Appointments to National Bodies

Australian Research Council
        - Expert Advisory Committee, Maths, Information and Communication Sciences panel, 2002-2003
        - Co-chair, Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LIEF) Committee, 2003
        - Reviewer, AINSE support for access to the UK ISIS neutron research facility, 2003
        - Reviewer, Special Research Centre for Quantum Computing Technology, 2002

Australian Academy of Science
        - National Committee for Physics, 1992 - 98, 2000 – 2003
        - National Committee for Optics, 1993 - 98
        - National Committee for Spectroscopy, 1996 - 2005

Australian Institute of Physics (Fellow, 1995)
        - A.C.T. Branch Secretary, 1986 - 91
         - A.C.T. Branch Committee, 1992 - 94, 1999 - 2002
         - A.C.T. Branch Vice-Chairman, 1995 - 96
         - A.C.T. Branch Chairman, 1997 - 98
         - National Science Policy Committee, 1991 - 2002

Australian Optical Society
         - Council member, 1990, 1997 - present
         - Vice President, 1991 - 92
         - President, 1993 - 94
         - Past President, 1995 - 96
         - International liaison officer, 1997 - present

Australasian Council on Quantum Electronics
         - member, 1990 - present

Federation of Australian Scientific and Technological Sciences (FASTS)
         - Board member, Physical Sciences, 1992 - 93
         - vice-President, 1994 - 95
         - Chair, Science Policy Committee, 1996 - present
         - Chair, Science meets Parliament committee, 2000 - present

International Conference Appointments

International Council on Quantum Electronics
       - Chair, 2002 - 2005
     - Administrative Board Member (one of 3), 1998 - 2002
   - Australian Representative, 1996 - 2002, 2004 - present

International Conference on Atomic Physics (ICAP), Cairns, July 2010
- Member, Organising Committee

International Conference on Optics 2008, Sydney, July 2008
- Member, Programme Committee

OSA Topical Meeting on Quantum-Atom Optics 2008, Wollongong, December 2007
- Conference Co-chair

CLEO Pacific Rim 2007, Seoul, Korea, August 26 – 31, 2007
- Chair, Technical Programme Sub-committee on Laser Spectroscopy

14th International Conference on Vacuum Ultraviolet Radiation, Cairns, July 2004
- General Organising committeee

International Conference on Laser Spectroscopy, Cairns, July 2003
- General Organising Committee

International Quantum Electronics Conference (IQEC) 2000, Nice, September 2000
- Technical program committee, Laser Spectroscopy

Summer School on BEC and Atom Lasers and 6th Workshop on Atom Optics and Interferometry, Corsica, July 2000
- Scientific Committee member

CLEO Pacific Rim ‘99, Seoul, September 1999
- Technical program committe, Nonlinear and Quantum Optics

Electron, Ion and Photon Beam Nanotechnology Conference 1999
- Technical program co-chair, Atom Lithography

International Quantum Electronics Conference (IQEC) '96, Sydney, July 1996
    - General Organising Committee member
    - Exhibition Chair
    - Chairman, Atom Optics session

Atom Optics and Interferometry Workshop, Cairns, July 1996
- General Organising Committee member
- Technical program committee member

National Conference Appointments

ACQAO, CQCT and CUDOS Workshop, Sydney, February 16 - 17, 2006
- programme chair

NZ and Australian Quantum-Atom Optics Workshop, Queenstown, Nov 28 – Dec 1, 2005
- programme committee member

16th Australian Institute of Physics Congress, Canberra, February, 2005
- Congress Chair

Workshop on Quantum & Atom Optics, Kioloa, December 5 – 7, 2004
- scientific program committee

AIP Congress, Sydney, 2002
- scientific program committee, Australian Optical Society

2001 BEC and Quantum Optics Workshop, Kioloa
- Scientific program committee

2000 Summer School on Bose-Einstein Condensation, ANU and BEC Workshop, Kioloa
- Scientific program committee

ACOLS ‘98, Christchurch
- Technical program committtee

AIP Congress, Brisbane, 1994
- Chair of technical program, Atom Optics

Australian Conference on Optics, Lasers and Spectroscopy (ACOLS) Liaison Committee:
- member, 1992 - 98
- chairman, 1999 - 2001

Australian Conference on Optics, Lasers and Spectroscopy (ACOLS) '91, Canberra:
- General Organising Committee member and Exhibition chair

Editorial Boards:

Laser Spectroscopy XVI: Proceedings of the XVI International Conference, Peter Hannaford, Andrei Sidorov, Hans Bachor and Ken Baldwin ( Eds.), World Scientific, Singapore (2004)

Advances in Quantum and Atom Optics, K.G.H. Baldwin, H.-A. Bachor and G.J. Milburn (Eds.), special issue of Journal of Optics B: Quantum and Semiclassical Optics (1999).

Journal of Optics B: Quantum and Semiclassical Optics (1994 - 1998)

Australian Optical Society News (1995 - present)

Significant Professional Contributions:

1. Development of science policy in Australia as chair of the FASTS Policy Committee, which produced key policy documents in 1995, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002 and 2006. Introduced the successful "Science Meets Parliament" Day in 1999 for which he was awarded the Eureka Prize for Promoting Understanding of Science in 2004.

2. Advancement of optics in Australia, especially as AOS President (1993 - 1994) when Optics: Highlight of the Future led to optics becoming an ARC priority area from 1995 - 1997.

3. Advancement of physics in Australia via the Academy of Science National Committee for Physics (1992 - 1998, 2000 - 2003) and National Committee for Spectroscopy (1996 - 2005); the Australian Research Council Expert Advisory committees (2002 – 2003) and co-chair of the Linkage Infrastructure and Equipment Facilities committee (2003); the Australian Institute of Physics Science Policy Committee, ACT Branch (Chair 1996 - 2002) and Chair of the AIP Congress, 2005.

4. Advancement of optics internationally through the OSA Board and International Council, through the ICQE (as Chair, regional representative and administrative Board member), and through key contributions to international conferences: IQEC ‘96 and 2000, EIPBN ‘99, CLEO PacRim ‘99, Atom Optics 2000, ICOLS 2003, VUV XIV 2004, ICO 2008 and ICAP 2010.