Scientia Professor Alexander Hamilton
Doctor of Philosophy (1993) University of Cambridge, UK
B. Sc. (Physics), 1st Class with Honours (1988) Imperial College, University of London, UK
Alex Hamilton is one of Australia's leading experimental condensed matter physicists, working on topological materials and semiconductor holes in quantum devices. He is head of the Quantum Electronic Devices group in the School of Physics at UNSW, and Deputy Director of the Australian Research Council Centre for Future Low Energy Electronics (FLEET). Research group website http://www.physics.unsw.edu.au/qed
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Coppersmith, Hamilton, Friesen, Scappucci, Das Sarma |
2021-2023 |
$580,000 |
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Hamilton, Culcer, Govoreanu, Li, Developing hole spin quantum bits in industrially fabricated silicon chips, |
2020-2023 |
$420,696 |
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Hamilton, Fuhrer, Wang, Seidel, Valanoor, Karel, Klochan, |
2020 |
$1,102,947 |
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Hamilton, Loss, Scappucci and Ritchie, |
2020-2022 |
$582,000 |
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Hamilton, Research Attraction and Acceleration Program Funding: ARC CoE FLEET, NSW State Government |
2017-2018 |
$100,000 |
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Fuhrer, Hamilton, and 36 others, ARC Centre of Excellence in Low Energy Electronics, CE170100039. |
2017-2023 |
$33,400,000 |
Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society, 2015.
UNSW Scientia Professor 2013.
Australian Research Council Discovery Outstanding Researcher Award (2012-14)
Australian Research Council Professorial Fellowship (2007-11)
COSMOS ‘Bright Sparks’ Award as one of Australia’s top 10 scientists (2007)
Australasian Science Prize (2006) Australia
- Spin based quantum devices for quantum electronics and quantum computing
- Semiconductor holes in quantum devices
- Hole quantum bits for quantum computing
- Topological materials for ultra-low power electronics
- 2D van der Waals materials