Judith Dawes

Biography

Judith Dawes and her research group study the emission and control of light at the nanoscale, in random lasers and plasmonic structures, for applications ranging from communications to biomedicine. Judith graduated with a B.Sc.(Hons) and Ph.D. from the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia. After postdoctoral research at the Ontario Laser and Lightwave Research Centre, University of Toronto, Canada, she joined the Centre for Lasers and Applications, at Macquarie University. She is a Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Faculty of Science, a chief invesigator of th ARC Centre of Excellence CUDOS (Centre for Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems) and member of MQ Photonics, Macquarie University. She teaches physics and photonics, and supervises postgraduate research students in random lasers and plasmonics, and biomedical applications of lasers. Her research achievements include the invention and development of a new laser material, Yb:YAB; the development of a tunable narrow linewidth, terahertz laser source; laser applications in dentistry; and the invention and development of a solid protein laser-cured solder for microsurgical tissue repair. She has supervised the thesis research of 13 PhD, 10 Masters and 10 Honours graduates. With over 1300 citations to her work, she has an h-index of 31, and has published in excess of 90 refereed journal articles, and more than 200 conference papers. She was the Head of Department of Physics and Astronomy from 2013-2015. Judith was elected President of the Australian Optical Society from 2010 to 2012, after serving on the Australian Optical Society Council. She is a Senior Member of the Optical Society of America (OSA) and SPIE. She has served on the Editorial Board of Optics and Photonics News (an OSA publication) and on the technical program committees of major international conferences, such as the Conference on Lasers and Electro-optics (CLEO-USA), CLEO-Pacrim, and IEEE Microwave Photonics. 

Research Interest

 physics