Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop

Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop
Other names Halina Rubinsztein
Alma mater University of Gothenburg
Awards Order of Australia (2018)
Website https://people.smp.uq.edu.au/HalinaRubinsztein-Dunlop/

Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop AO FAA is a physicist and academic at the University of Queensland.[1] She has led pioneering work in atom optics, laser micromanipulation, laser physics, linear and nonlinear high resolution spectroscopy, and nano-optics.[2][3]

Halina Rubinsztein (later Rubinsztein-Dunlop) was born in Poland.[4] She emigrated to Sweden[1] and took her B.Sc. and PhD degree from the University of Gothenburg.[3]

Career

Rubinsztein-Dunlop completed her Ph.D. titled Atomic-beam magnetic resonance investigations of refractory elements and metastable states of lead at the University of Gothernberg in 1978.[5]

Rubinsztein-Dunlop moved to Australia in 1989,[6] after her marriage to engineer Gordon Dunlop.[1] She joined the staff of the Department of Physics at the University of Queensland. Rubinsztein-Dunlop established a research team that conducted research in laser physics. In 1995, she and a colleague established a Science in Action program, that was used to outreach educational programs for schools relating to the physical sciences[7].

Rubinsztein-Dunlop was appointed Professor of physics in 2000.[1] She became Head of the University of Queensland Department of Physics, and later School of Mathematics and Physics from 2006-2013. She is Director of Quantum Science Laboratory and Manager of one of the scientific programs of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems. In 2011 she was a guest editor for the Journal of Optics on a peer-reviewed special issue about optical tweezers, published by the Institute of Physics.[8]

Rubinsztein-Dunlop was made a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2016.[2]

Rubinsztein-Dunlop was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in the Queen's 2018 Birthday Honours List for "distinguished service to laser physics and nano-optics as a researcher, mentor and academic, to the promotion of educational programs, and to women in science".[9][10][11]

During the 2018 international scientific conference SPIE, the Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation XV programme held a special session honouring Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop.[12]

Research

Rubinsztein-Dunlop has published over 200 works in journals and books.[13] She has also been featured on radio and television.

Rubinsztein-Dunlop conducts research that harnesses the power of optics and lasers to explore quantum and biological phenomena. She initiated experimental programs in laser micromanipulation and atom optics at the University of Queensland. Her team was successful in demonstrating dynamical tunnelling in the Bose Einstein Condensate (BEC) Laboratory in a modulated standing wave.[2] Rubinzstein-Dunlop's team has observed dynamical tunnelling in quantum chaotic systems.[14] She also conducts work in the field of biophysics, notably a study on vertigo and understanding the body's balance system.[15]

Awards

Memberships

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Allen, Elizabeth (29 April 2000). "Atom lady". Courier Mail.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Professor Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop | Australian Academy of Science". www.science.org.au. Retrieved 2018-03-06.
  3. 1 2 "Prof. Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop | ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems". equs.org. Retrieved 2018-03-06.
  4. ↑ "Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop - 2010 SPIE Women in Optics Planner". Retrieved 2018-03-06.
  5. ↑ 1950-, Rubinsztein, Halina, (1978). "Atomic-beam magnetic resonance investigations of refractory elements and metastable states of lead" (in Swedish).
  6. ↑ "UQ remembers Emeritus Professor Keith Bullock, Dr Robert Wensley, QC and Emeritus Professor Gordon Dunlop". The Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology. Retrieved 2018-03-06.
  7. ↑ "History of Physics Department to 1998 - Physics Museum - The University of Queensland, Australia". physicsmuseum.uq.edu.au. Retrieved 2018-03-06.
  8. ↑ "Journal of Optics, Volume 13, Number 4, April 2011 - IOPscience". iopscience.iop.org. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
  9. 1 2 "UQ laser physicist recognised in Queen's birthday honours". School of Mathematics and Physics. 2018-06-11. Retrieved 2018-06-13.
  10. 1 2 "Queen's Birthday honours for seven Academy Fellows | Australian Academy of Science". www.science.org.au. Retrieved 2018-06-13.
  11. ↑ "Australian Honours database: Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina". Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet. Retrieved 4 July 2018.
  12. ↑ "Conference Detail for Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation XV". spie.org. Retrieved 2018-07-31.
  13. ↑ "Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.co.uk. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
  14. ↑ "The Bose-Einstein Condensate Laboratory | ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems". equs.org. Retrieved 2018-03-08.
  15. ↑ "Vertigo and understanding the body's balance system". ScienceDaily. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
  16. ↑ "Women in Physics Lecturer | Australian Institute of Physics". aip.org.au. Retrieved 2018-03-08.
  17. ↑ "Australian Optical Society - Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop and Ben Eggleton, Fellows of the AAS". optics.org.au. Retrieved 2018-03-06.
  18. ↑ "NTT Basic Research Laboratories". www.brl.ntt.co.jp. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
  19. ↑ "Journal of Biophotonics :". onlinelibrary.wiley.com. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
  20. ↑ "Beckman Laser Institute - Founder's Column Arnold Beckman Tribute". www.bli.uci.edu. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
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