Vincent Wallace is Professor and Head of the Department of Physics at the University of Western Australia (UWA), within the School of Physics, Mathematics and Computing. He has approximately 30 years of experience in terahertz spectroscopy, biomedical optics and photonics. He graduated with a PhD in Physics Applied to Medicine from the Institute of Cancer Research, University of London, in 1997. After three years at the Beckman Laser Institute, UC Irvine, he joined Toshiba Research in Cambridge, UK to investigate medical applications of terahertz radiation. TeraView Ltd, also based in Cambridge, was spun out of Toshiba Labs in April 2001. At TeraView, Vince led a group developing medical applications of terahertz technology. In 2007 he moved to the University of Western Australia, where he continues to apply terahertz and complementary optical techniques to biomedical and clinical problems. He was appointed Head of the Department of Physics in early 2023 and serves on the UWA University Research Committee and Research Entities Committee. In 2024, he received the Barry Inglis Medal from the National Measurement Institute, the highest honour in Australian metrology. He has supervised 18 PhD candidates to completion and co-inventor on several patents.

2016: A/Prof VP Wallace, Prof C Bond. Interrogating protein hydration by terahertz time-domain spectroscopy. ARC Linkage Project LP160100325 $270,000, 3 years

2014: Cancer Council WA; Youngberg Women’s Cancer Research Fellowship 2015-2018. $428,000

2014: ARC LIEF LE150100078 An advanced multimodal terahertz spectroscopy and imaging system for WA. A/Prof V P Wallace; Prof C S Bond; Dr K L Swaminatha-Iyer; Prof T G St Pierre; Prof M Martyniuk; Dr G E Poinern; Dr W Withayachumnankul; Dr B M Fischer; Dr D R Appadoo; Prof K C Gordon; Dr R Falconer; Dr P Siegel; Asst Prof E MacPherson, $360,000

2014: A/Prof V Wallace; Asst Prof E MacPherson; Dr A Gibson. ARC Discovery Project,
DP15010063, Theoretical modelling of the interaction of terahertz radiation with biologic tissue, $355,100, 3 yrs.

2013: A/Prof VP Wallace, Prof A. Purushotham, Prof S. Pinder. Development of an Intra-Operative Tool for Tumour Margin Assessment During Surgery. NHMRC Development Grant, 3 yrs, $580,000

2013: A/Prof VP Wallace, Prof Alan Harvey, Prof Livia Hool. Modulation of Neurons with THz light. ARC Discovery Project, 3 yrs, $420,000

Terahertz spectroscopy and imaging of biological tissues, with applications to skin cancer imaging, burn depth assessment, breast tumour margin identification, and corneal hydration measurement in collaboration with CooperVision.

Investigation of terahertz radiation as a noncontact probe and modulator of nucleic acid substructures, including G quadruplex and i motif DNA, with international collaborators at Ruhr University Bochum and UCL.

Theoretical and experimental modelling of the dielectric response of biological tissues at terahertz frequencies, including stoichiometric hydration models of cornea and tendon.

Ongoing industry partnerships with Menlo and TeraView Ltd (instrumentation) and clinical research collaboration with the Lions Eye Institute.

Terahertz spectroscopy, terahertz imaging, biomedical optics, biophotonics, medical physics, noninvasive diagnostics, tissue dielectric properties, DNA dynamics, optical coherence tomography, photomedicine.