Peter Hannaford

Peter Hannaford (born 15 July 1939) is a University Professor and Director of the Centre for Atom Optics and Ultrafast Spectroscopy at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, winner of the Walter Boas Medal in 1985.^[1]

Hannaford studied at the University of Melbourne; Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) 1961, Master of Science (M.Sc.) 1963, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) 1968.^[1]

In 1964 Hannaford became Physics Tutor at Ormond College at the University of Melbourne. Then in 1967, became Research Scientist at the CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation), Division of Chemical Physics. 1971 to 1983 Senior Research Scientist then Principal Research Scientist (1974) at the CSIRO Division of Chemical Physics. 1972 to 1973 he was Guest Scientist at the University of Reading (JJ Thomson Physical Laboratory), UK. 1981 to 1982, Science Research Council Senior Research Fellow at the University of Reading (JJ Thomson Physical Laboratory). 1983, Senior Principal Research Scientist at CSIRO Division of Chemical Physics. 1984, William Evans Visiting Fellow at the University of Otago in New Zealand. 1985 he was a Member of the Australian Academy of Science National Committee for Spectroscopy. In 1989 he was Royal Society Guest Research Fellow and Visiting Fellow at Christ Church College, University of Oxford, UK. From 1989 to 2001 he was Chief Research Scientist at the CSIRO Division of Materials Science and Technology in Clayton, Victoria. From 1990 to 2000 he was Professorial Associate at the University of Melbourne. In 1991 he was Australian Academy of Science-Royal Society Exchange Fellow in Oxford, UK.^[1]

In 1992 Hannaford was Guest Scientist at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching, Germany. From 1993 to 2003 he was Chair of the National Committee for Spectroscopy of the Australian Academy of Science. 1997 he was Professorial Fellow at the Swinburne University of Technology in Hawthorn, Victoria. In 1999 he was Director of the Centre for Atom Optics and Ultrafast Spectroscopy (CAOUS) at Swinburne University. From 1999 to 2003 he was Guest Scientist at the European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy (LENS), Università degli Studi di Firenze in Italy. In 2000 he was Guest Professor at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. In 2002 Member of Commission C15 (Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics) for the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics. In 2003 he became n - University Distinguished Professor at Swinburne University of Technology.^[1]

Hannaford is also Institutional Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Quantum-Atom Optics at Swinburne University of Technology. While at CSIRO in the 1970s to the 1990s he pioneered new techniques in high resolution and time-resolved laser spectroscopy which have been important for characterisation of the spectroscopic properties of a wide range of atoms. In recent years he and his group at Swinburne University have made important advances in the new fields of laser cooling of atoms, atom optics, Bose–Einstein condensation, and femtosecond laser spectroscopy. He has published over 150 papers in scientific journals and books.^[1] His current projects include: BEC on a chip, magnetic lattices, quantum coherence, molecular BEC, high harmonic generation, ultrafast spectroscopy.^[2]

Awards

• 1991 — Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA)
• 1985 — Walter Boas Medal of the Australian Institute of Physics

Selected Publications

• From magnetic mirrors to atom chips
  Andrei Sidorov and Peter Hannaford (Eds. J. Reichel and V. Vuletic) Wiley-VCH Chapter 1, pp. 3–31 (2011)
• Temperature dependence of the universal contact parameter in a unitary Fermi gas
  E. D. Kuhnle, S. Hoinka, P. Dyke, H. Hu, P. Hannaford, and C. J. Vale
  Phys. Rev. Lett., in press arxiv 1012.2626
• Universal behavior of pair correlations in a strongly interacting Fermi gas
  E. D. Kuhnle, H. Hu, X.-J. Liu, P. Dyke, M. Mark, P. D. Drummond, P. Hannaford and C. J. Vale
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 070402 (2010)^[2]

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