Name: Professor Benjamin J Eggleton Current appointment: ARC Laureate Fellow, University of Sydney; Director, Institute of Photonics and Optical Science (IPOS), University of Sydney; Director, CUDOS ARC Centre of Excellence; Professor of Physics, University of Sydney. Qualifications: B. Sc. (Hons 1), Physics, 1992, PhD, Physics, University of Sydney, 1996. Previous employment: Postdoctoral Member of Technical Staff, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies (1996– 1998); Member of Technical Staff, (1998–2000); Technical Manager – Fiber gratings and photonic devices group, (2000–2001); Research Director, Specialty Fiber Devices business with Lucent Technologies (Jan. 2001–Nov. 2001); Director of Photonic Devices Research, OFS Laboratories & OFS – Specialty Photonics Division (Nov. 2001– Dec. 2002). ARC Federation Fellow, University of Sydney (2003-2012) Editorial duties: Associated Editor for IEEE Photonic Technology Letters (2003–2007), Editor-in-Chief of Optics Communications (2007–present). Awards: Walter Boas Medal from the Australia Institute of Physics (2011), Eureka Prize for Leadership of Science (2011), Fellow of IEEE Photonics (2010), NSW Science Prize for Physics (2008), Pawsey Medal from the Australian Academy of Science (2007), Prime Ministers Science Prize – Malcolm McIntosh Prize for Physical Scientist of the Year (2004), ICO Prize from the International Commission for Optics (2003), OSA Fellow (2002), ARC Federation Fellowships (2003-2007 and 2008-2012), IEEE/LEOS distinguished lecturer (2002–2003), R&D100 prize from R&D100 Magazine (2002), Adolph Lomb Medal from Optical Society of America (1998). Career publications: 390 journal papers (2 Edited books, 14 Book Chapters, 35 patents). Career citations > 12,000, h-index = 56 (Web of Science). Ten significant recent publications: 1. A. Blanco-Redondo et al. "Observation of soliton compression in silicon photonic crystals," Nature Communications 5: 3160, doi:10.1038/ncomms4160 (2014) 2. E. Li, B.J. Eggleton, K. Fang and S. Fan, "Photonic Aharonov-Bohm effect in photon-phonon interactions," Nature Communications 5:3225, doi:10.1038/ncomms4225 (2014) 3. T.F.S. Büttner et al. "Phase-locked, chip-based, cascaded stimulated Brillouin scattering," Optica 1, 311-314 (2014) 4. B.J. Eggleton, C.G. Poulton and R. Pant, "Inducing and harnessing stimulated Brillouin scattering in photonic integrated circuits," Adv. Opt. Photon. 5, 536-587 (2013) 5. M.J. Collins et al. "Integrated spatial multiplexing of heralded single-photon sources" Nature Communications 4: 2582, doi:10.1038/ncomms3582 (2013) 6. B.J. Eggleton, B. Luther-Davies and K. Richardson, “Chalcogenide Photonics,” Nature Photonics 5, 141–148 (2011). [234 citations] 7. B. Corcoran et al., “Green light emission in silicon through slow-light enhanced third-harmonic generation in photonic-crystal waveguides,” Nature Photonics 3, 206 (2009). [160 citations] 8. M. Pelusi et al.,” Photonic-chip-based radio-frequency spectrum analyser with terahertz bandwidth", Nature Photonics 3, 139–143 (2009). [85 citations] 9. C. Monat, P. Domachuk and B.J. Eggleton, “Integrated optofluidics: A new river of light,” Nature Photonics 1, 106–114 (2007). [465 citations] 10. J.T. Mok, C.M. de Sterke, I.C.M. Littler and B.J. Eggleton, “Dispersionless slow light using gap solitons,” Nature Physics 2, 775–780 (2006). [171 citations] Recent competitive Grants: Since 2003, Eggleton has secured more than $54 million in competitive research funding (as Chief Investigator) and more than $5 million in first-authored large-equipment grants (LIEF and University grants). He was the founding Director of CUDOS in 2003. Eggleton was awarded an ARC Federation Fellowship in 2001 (the first round), a second Federation Fellowship in 2007 and an ARC Laureate Fellowship in 2012. .
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