Michael Tobar

Received the Ph.D. degree in physics from the University of Western Australia, Perth, W.A., Australia, in 1994. He is currently a Professor of Physics with the Department of Physics at the University of Western Australia. Notably, between 2009 and 2014 He was awarded a Laureate Fellowship by the Australian Research Council.  His research interests encompass the broad discipline of frequency metrology, precision and quantum measurements and quantum, low temperature and condensed matter physics. In particular he is interested in undertaking precision tests of fundamental physics, including low energy precision searches for Dark Matter. He leads the Frequency and Quantum Metrology research group at UWA, and the ORGAN axion Dark Matter detector collaboration. He has co-authored about 300 journal publications in these fields of research and has 12 patents. Recent awards include the 2014 Cady Award presented by the IEEE, the 2014 Clunies-Ross award presented by the Australian Academy of Science and Technology, the 2012 Alan Walsh medal presented by the Australian Institute of Physics, the 2010 WA scientist of the year, presented by the WA dept. of Commerce, the 2009, Barry Inglis medal presented by the National Measurement Institute for precision measurement and the 2006 Boas medal presented by the Australian Institute of Physics. Also, during 2007 he was elevated to Fellow of the IEEE, 2008 Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineeringand 2012Fellow ofthe Australian Academy of Science.He also received a citation from the Australian Learning and Teaching Council for inspiring research students to reach their full potential and transform to successful research scientists through participation in ground-breaking research.

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