Joan Vaccaro BSc(Hon) PhD(Griffith) FInstP
Affiliations
Professor
School of Environment and Science
Griffith University
Member
Queensland Quantum and Advanced Technologies Research Institute (QUATRI)
Griffith University
Biography
Joan was educated at Griffith University in the 1980's. Her PhD degree in Theoretical Quantum Optics was supervised by Prof. David Pegg FAA and was awarded in 1990. Her research broadened to coherent phenomena in laser cooled gases, robust states of open quantum systems, ultra cold quantum gases (Bose-Einstein condensation), superselection rules and entanglement, quantum data security, quantum information processing, quantum thermodynamics, condensed matter physics and the physics of time. She worked in the UK and Europe for about 12 years at the
- University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK,
- Max Planck Society Workgroup, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany,
- The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK, and
- University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK
before returning to Griffith University in 2005.
Academic Positions
- 1989-1994 Lecturer, Griffith University
- 1994-1995 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Max Planck Society Workgroup on Nonclassical Light, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
- 1995-1997 Postdoctoral Research Assistant, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
- 1997-2000 Senior Lecturer, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK
- 2000-2005 Reader, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK
- 2004-2005 Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship
- 2005-2010 Senior Lecturer, Griffith University
- 2011-2017 Associate Professor, Griffith University
- 2018-........ Professor, Griffith University