Dr Kanna Aoki
Metamaterials Laboratory, Riken, Saitama Japan
Dr Kanna Aoki is a researcher at RIKEN, Japan. She pursued the development of micromanipulation system for the assembly of micometre & submicrometre scale 3D structures, and applied the technology for fabrication of 3D photonic crystals since 2000. She has been working on the assembly of 3D metamaterials since 2009.
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Thomas Babinec
Harvard University Cambridge USA
Tom Babinec received a B.S. in physics and mathematics from The University of Michigan in 2007 and a M.S. degree in applied physics from Harvard University in 2010. He is currently working towards a Ph.D. in applied physics in the Laboratory for Nanoscale Optics at Harvard University with Professor Marko Lončar. In 2007 he was awarded a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate fellowship in physics as well a National Science Foundation Graduate student fellowship in materials science. His research activities and interests focus on nanoscale optics and photonics as well as nanotechnology in general.
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Dr Nicole Bell
University of Melbourne VIC Australia
Nicole Bell completed her PhD at The University of Melbourne in 2001. She was a postdoctoral research associate at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Illinois, USA, and a Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar at Caltech, California, USA. She commenced a permanent appointment at The University of Melbourne in 2007. Nicole’s research interests lie at the intersection of particle physics with astrophysics and cosmology, and include dark matter, neutrino physics, and baryogenesis.
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 Dr Jose Bellido-Caceres
University of Adelaide SA Australia
Jose Bellido obtained his bachelor’s degree in 1996 at the University of San Agustin, Peru. In 1999 he obtained his Master degree at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. He worked in the design of the fluorescence detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory. In 2003 he obtained his Doctorate degree at the University of Adelaide, Australia. He performed studies of the arrival direction of cosmic rays detected with the HiRes experiment. After finishing his PhD he has continuosly worked for the Pierre Auger Collaboration at the University of Adelaide, The University of Utah and at the Pennsylvania State University. He is currently a senior research associate at the University of Adelaide working in a broad range of topics from quality data monitoring to data analysis.
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 Dr Markus Brede
CSIRO Centre For Complex Systems Science ACT Australia
Markus Brede obtained a PhD in Theoretical Physics from the University of Leipzig in Germany in 2003. He joined the CSIRO Centre for Complex Systems Science, in which he first worked as a PostDoc and later Research Scientist. Among others, his research focuses on two areas: (i) integrated assessment modelling and understanding possible governance mechanisms (rules) for enabling sustainable use of natural resources and how these might evolve in response to climate change and (ii) network theory and the understanding of the structure of complex networks and the key elements of dynamical processes on complex networks.
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 Dr Anthony Brown
University of Canterbury, Christchurch New Zealand
Anthony Brown completed his PhD in 2006 at the University of Durham where he studied the inner workings of Active Galactic Nuclei with the HESS gamma-ray telescopes. Subsequent post-doctoral positions have been in a variety of neutrino based astroparticle experiments ranging from the acoustic detection of Ultra High Energy neutrinos to the optical detection of High Energy neutrinos with the ANTARES experiment. Anthony is currently a post-doctoral Fellow at the University of Canterbury working with the IceCube neutrino telescope.
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 Professor Iver Cairns
University of Sydney NSW Australia
Professor Cairns received his PhD from the University of Sydney in 1987. He worked at the University of Iowa (1986-1998) before taking up a 5-year Senior Research Fellowship at the University of Sydney, one of only 20 awarded. In 2004 he was awarded a similarly competitive Australian Professorial Fellowship and in 2009 was appointed Professor in Space Physics (Teaching & Research) at the University of Sydney. Professor Cairns has over 200 refereed papers published in books and journals, a Hirsch index of 27, given over 3 plenary and 75 invited papers at international conferences, and obtained over US$7 M in competitive funding (excluding spacecraft projects) from Australian and US funding agencies. He has substantial experience in leading international and national scientific groups (eg. AOGS, IAGA, and the AIP’s STSP Group). Professor Cairns’ expertise is in the theory and observation of waves and radiation in space and astrophysical plasmas, both for the basic plasma physics and for the analysis and interpretation of important space and astrophysical phenomena. His most important contributions are: (1) Burstiness: He has demonstrated that the near-universal spatiotemporal burstiness of waves and radiation is usually a signature of the physics and plasma inhomogeneity, developed large parts of stochastic growth theory (SGT) and demonstrated its applicability in over 10 systems, investigated nonlinear self-focusing (modulational) instabilities, and co-discovered localized Langmuir eigenstates in space. (2) Radio Emissions: He has developed the first micro- to macro-scale theories for the solar system’s most powerful radio emissions, type II and III solar radio bursts and 2-3 kHz radiation from the outer heliosphere. These combine analytic/numerical theories for the microphysics of electron beams, wave growth, linear mode conversion, and nonlinear processes and integrate them over multiple regions of a macroscopic extended source.
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 Professor Chris Dainty
National University of Ireland, Galway Ireland
Professor Dainty’s research interests are in optical imaging, scattering and propagation. In these areas he has published several books and approximately 160 peer-reviewed journal papers. From 1974-78, he was a Lecturer in Physics at Queen Elizabeth College of the University of London. Professor Dainty joined the Institute of Optics at the University of Rochester 1978. He became Pilkington Professor of Applied Optics at Imperial College in January 1984. In October 2002, Professor Dainty joined The National University of Ireland, Galway and in 2005 was appointed to the Chair of Applied Physics. He is simultaneously on extended leave from Imperial College.
Professor Dainty has been active in teaching optics and physics throughout his career, at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels and in continuing education. He has supervised 54 PhD Theses and currently has 9 research students. Between 1993 and 2003 he was an Editor of Optics Communications, handling over 4900 manuscripts in that period.
He is the 1984 recipient of the International Commission of Optics Prize, the 1993 Thomas Young Medal and Prize (IoP), the 2003 C E K Mees Medal and Prize (OSA) and the Optics and Photonics Division Prize 2004 (IoP). He is also a Fellow of The Optical Society of America, SPIE and The Institute of Physics (UK) and in 2008 was elected to Membership of the Royal Irish Academy.
From 1983 to 1985 he was elected to the Board of Directors of the Optical Society of America: 1987-1990 he was elected Secretary-General of the ICO, President for the term 1990-1993 and was Past-President for 1993 to 1996: and 1994 to 1996 he was elected to the Board of SPIE. Prof Dainty served on the Council of the UK Institute of Physics (1996 – 1999). He was a Director at Large of the OSA for the period 2005-2007 and is President of the OSA in 2011.
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 Professor Mahananda Dasgupta
Australian National University ACT Australia
Mahananda Dasgupta complete her PhD from the prestigious Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Bombay (now Mumbai), India. Her postdoctoral research interests took her to Australia where she worked in the Department of Nuclear Physics at the Australian National University. She was subsequently awarded a Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship, and in 2006 she received the Pawsey Medal from the Australian Academy of Science for her contributions to understanding the tunnelling of composite objects through precision measurements of nuclear fusion. She is currently a Professor at the ANU.
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 Dr Marc Duldig
Australian Antarctic Division TAS Australia
Dr Duldig is a Senior Principal Research Scientist at the Australian Antarctic Division. He is an world leader in cosmic ray modulation research and GLE modelling. In addition he is the Vice President of the AIP and long term Secretary of the ASA. He is also a Secretary of the Asia Oceania Geoscience Society, Solar Terrestrial Section and Editor-in-Chief of the Solar Terrestrial volumes of Advances in Geosciences. He is an Honorary Fellow of the ASA and a Fellow of the AIP.
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Professor Victor Flambaum
University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia
Victor Flambaum is Chair of Theoretical Physics, UNSW and a Fellow of Australian Academy of Science. He has presented over 100 invited talks at international conferences, including four plenary talks at ICAP.
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 Dr Garry Foran
Australian Synchrotron VIC Australia
Dr Garry Foran is a synchrotron-radiation specialist with experience at facilities in Europe, the USA and Japan. Garry worked at the At the Australian National Beamline Facility in Tsukiba, Japan for 17 years before joing the Australian Synchrotron where he has worked on the Australian Synchrotron Development Plan and the production of Science Case 2. He is now working as Beamlines Development Advisor with the AS working towards the implementation of SC2. Research interests include applications of X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy to bioinorganic chemistry and the study of amorphous semiconductor and nano-scale materials. In addition, Garry has a longstanding research collaboration using synchrotron X-ray reflectometry, grazing-incidence diffraction and X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy in the structural characterisation of organic thin films and two-dimensional molecular networks. Garry is an Adjunct Associate Professor in Chemistry at the University of Sydney.
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 Professor Martin Green
University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia
Martin Green is currently a Federation Fellow and Scientia Professor at the University of New South Wales and Executive Research Director of the ARC Photovoltaic Centre of Excellence. He is also a Director of CSG Solar, a company formed specifically to commercialise the University’s thin-film, polycrystalline-silicon-on-glass solar cell. His group’s contributions to photovoltaics are well known including the development of the world’s highest efficiency silicon solar cells and the successes of several spin-off companies. He is the author of six books on solar cells and numerous papers in the area of semiconductors, microelectronics, optoelectronics and, of course, solar cells. His work has resulted in several major awards including the 1999 Australia Prize, the 2002 Right Livelihood Award (also known as the Alternative Nobel Prize), the 2004 World Technology Award for Energy, the 2007 SolarWorld Einstein Award, the 2009 Zayed Future Energy Prize (one of two finalists) and the 2009 ENI Award for Renewable and Non-conventional Energy.
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 Dr Sally McArthur
Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne Australia
Sally McArthur has been the Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Swinburne University of Technology for the last 2 years. She spent 6 years as a Lecturer and Senior Lecturer at the University of Sheffield in the UK after completing her Post Doctoral Studies at the University of Washington in Seattle. She obtained her PhD from the University of New South Wales and MEng Sci (Biomedical Engineering) and B.Eng (Materials Engineering) from Monash University.
A/Prof McArthur has obtained approximately $6.5M in funding from research councils, industry and government in the UK and Australia. She has 41 publications and with a h-factor currently of 13 her papers have over 400 citations (Thomson Reuters). Her research couples materials, surface engineering, physical science, analytical chemistry and biochemistry to create novel interfaces capable of eliciting specific physical and biological responses. These engineered surfaces enable the integration of biology into new technologies including microfluidics, biosensors and tissue engineering.
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 Professor Gerald Miller
University of Washington, Seattle USA
Professor Miller received his PhD in Theoretical Nuclear Physics from MIT in 1972. He then did post-doctoral work at Carnegie-Mellon University, moving to the University of Washington in 1975. Prof. Miller is a Fellow of the APS and of the AAAS, who has published approximately 240 published papers related to fundamental symmetries, high energy nuclear reactions and nucleon structure.
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 Dr Tony Murphy
CSIRO Materials Science and Engineering NSW Australia
Tony Murphy has been with CSIRO for 21 years, and is currently a Chief Research Scientist. He has published over 110 journal articles on the science and applications of plasmas, and on other topics including solar water splitting and nanotechnology. He was awarded the 2008 Alan Walsh Medal for Service to Industry by the Australian Institute of Physics for his work on developing the PLASCON plasma waste treatment system, as well as the 2000 Pawsey Medal by the Australian Academy of Science and the 1995 Edgeworth David Medal by the Royal Society of NSW. He is a Fellow of the UK and Australian Institutes of Physics, and is a member of the Editorial Boards of four journals, including Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics and Plasma Chemistry & Plasma Processing.
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 Professor Neville Nicholls
Monash University VIC Australia
Neville Nicholls spent 35 years in climate research in the Bureau of Meteorology before joining Monash University in 2006 where he is an ARC Professorial Fellow. Neville is President of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society, and an editor of the new journal Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change. He is a Coordinating Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report “Managing the risks of extreme events and disasters to advance climate change adaptation” to be completed in 2011.
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 Associate Professor David Paganin
Monash University VIC Australia
David is a theoretical physicist from Monash University who works in a variety of areas, from the fundamental to the applied. The bulk of his research revolves around physical optics, with some emphasis on phase retrieval. He always strives for original (and preferably simple) solutions to interesting problems of either fundamental or practical significance (preferably both!). David has a sustained record of working closely with his experimental colleagues. In addition to striving to be the best researcher he can be, David also strives to be the very best teacher he can, and to help nurture the careers of younger physicists. He has co-authored over 90 peer-reviewed research articles, together with a single-author book on “Coherent X-Ray Optics” (Oxford University Press, 2006).
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 Dr Adi Paterson
Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation NSW Australia
Dr Adrian (Adi) Paterson is the Chief Executive of the Australian Nuclear Science & Technology Organisation (ANSTO). Previously he was general manager, Business Development and Operations, at the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor Company in South Africa. He has a BSc in Chemistry and a PhD in Engineering from the University of Cape Town. From 2001 to 2006, Dr Paterson worked at the South African Department of Science and Technology in various science policy roles including the development of national innovation instruments and the National Research and Development Strategy. From 1984 to 2001, he worked at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research in South Africa, rising through a number of assignments to the position of Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer. Dr Paterson is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering.
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 Professor Iain Reid
University of Adelaide SA Australia
Professor Reid has over 30 years of experience in the area of remote sensing of the atmosphere using both radar and optical techniques. He received his PhD in Physics from the University of Adelaide in 1985. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Space and Atmospheric Science at the University of Saskatchewan from 1984 until 1985, and then as a Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at the Max Planck Institute for Aeronomy in Germany until the end of 1988. He then returned to the University of Adelaide. In 2008 he was awarded the DSc by the University. He is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Physics, and a Senior Member of the IEEE. He is the Australian Discipline Representative for the International Scientific Committee on Solar and Terrestrial Physics (SCOSTEP) and is a member of the Australian Institute of Physics National Committee on Solar Terrestrial Physics.
Professor Reid is a Professor of Physics in the School of Chemistry and Physics at the University of Adelaide. Presently, he is Dean of Postgraduate Coursework and Academic Director for Singapore in the University.
He is the Executive Director of ATRAD group of companies and has been a company director for more than 16 years. He has been a board member for a number of University related companies and is currently a Director of the Ngee Ann Adelaide Education Centre Pte Ltd in Singapore.
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 Professor Murry Salby
Macquarie University, Sydney Australia
Professor Salby is currently at Climate Dynamics, Macquarie University, Sydney. Previously he was Professor, Astrophysical, Planetary, and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA; the Meteorological Institute Stockholm University in Sweden; the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Program, Princeton University and at the US National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder USA.
Professor Salby’s career spans major issues involving the global circulation, composition and energetics of the Earth-atmosphere system. His present interests apply governing physical principles to discriminate between secular variations of climate and climate variability. Along with current applications, those principles are encapsulated in his forthcoming text, Physics of the Atmosphere and Climate.
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 Professor Katarina Svanberg
Lund University Hospital, Lund Sweden
Katarina Svanberg is an MD and a PhD. She works as a chief oncologist at the Lund University Hospital as well as a Professor of Oncology at the Lund University.
Her research interest includes laser-induced fluorescence detection of early malignancies as well as photodynamic therapy in which field she very early introduced ALA for topical sensitisation. She is also involved in a new research field; GASMAS – Gas Detection in Scattering Media. Within this project the Lund group is developing non-intrusive techniques for detection of free gases within the human body, such as the gas exchange in the facial sinuses.
Katarina Svanberg is the director of the Lund University Medical Laser Centre and at the moment president elect of SPIE (the International Soceiety of Optics and Photonics) – an international society for optical engineering with 16 500 members. She will be the president of SPIE 2011 s also a fellow of the same society.
Katarina Svanberg is the co-author of more than 100 peer-reviewed papers, has been a co-organiser of conferences within the field and has given numerous invited talks. She has been in particular interested in collaboration with countries in the developing world and has together with collaborators introduced PDT and fluorescence detection to Malaysia, Senegal in Africa and Lithuania and is also involved in a lot of collaboration within other countries in Africa as well as in China.
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 Associate Professor Kevin Varvell
University of Sydney NSW Australia
Kevin Varvell leads the experimental particle physics group in the School of Physics at the University of Sydney, working on the ATLAS experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider and the Belle/Belle II experiments at KEK in Japan. He obtained his undergraduate degree in physics from the University of Western Australia and his D.Phil from the University of Oxford. Prior to moving to the University of Sydney, he held postdoctoral positions at Birmingham University and ANSTO, and worked on several neutrino experiments conducted at CERN and Fermilab.
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 Professor Colin Waters
University of Newcastle NSW Australia
Associate Professor Waters has a PhD in Space Physics from the University of Newcastle, Australia. After a postdoctoral appointment at the University of Alberta, Canada, he returned to Newcastle as academic staff.
His research includes magnetometer, radar and satellite data, particularly Iridium satellite data and numerical simulations of space weather effects on technological systems.
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Dr Martin White
University of Melbourne VIC Australia
Martin White completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge in 2006, subsequently working as a postdoctoral researcher at Cambridge and CERN before moving to the University of Melbourne in 2010. His research includes studies of how to discover the nature of dark matter at the LHC, involving both private research and collaboration with astrophysicists on the FERMI and HESS gamma ray experiments. He has also made contributions to silicon detector physics at CERN.
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Dr Ross Young
University of Adelaide SA Australia
Dr Young completed his PhD in theoretical physics at The University of Adelaide in 2004. Dr Young was a postdoctoral fellow at Jefferson Lab, in Virginia, USA, followed by a Eugene P. Wigner Postdoctoral Fellowship at Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, USA. In January 2010, Dr Young returned to The University of Adelaide as a lecturer. Dr Young’s research interests include the strong interaction dynamics of quantum chromodynamics and precision low-energy searches for new physics.
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