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Karen V Kheruntsyan
PRESENT APPOINTMENT: ARC Senior Research Fellow
ROLE: Chief Investigator at the UQ Node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum-Atom Optics (ACQAO), School of Physical Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
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Tel: +61 - 7 - 3365 3420 Fax: +61 - 7 - 3365 1242
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EDUCATION
1989-1992: PhD studies, Institute for Physical Research, National Academy of Sciences, Armenia.
1983-1988: Undergaduate/postgraduate studies at the Yerevan State University, Armenia.
1988: Certificate in Personal Computers and Programming, Yerevan Polytechnic Institute, Yerevan, Armenia.
DEGREES AWARDED
1993: PhD in Physics, Institute for Physical Research, National Academy of Sciences, Armenia.
1988: MSc (with distiction), Yerevan State University, Yerevan, Armenia.
APPOINTMENTS HELD
2004 - current: ARC Senior Research Fellow, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
2005 - 2006: Deputy Director of the UQ Node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum-Atom Optics.
2001 - 2003: ARC Senior Research Associate, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
07/2000 - 12/2000: Lecturer, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
01/2000 - 06/2000: ARC Research Associate, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
1997 - 1999: UQ Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
1996 - 1997: ARC Research Associate, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
1994 - 1996: Research Scientist, Institute for Physical Research, National Academy of Sciences, Armenia.
1992 - 1994: Junior Research Scientist, Institute for Physical Research, National Academy of Sciences, Armenia.
PUBLICATIONS & RESEARCH IMPACT (full list of publications can be found here)
- 50 articles in refereed journals, 3 articles in conference proceedings/books, 43 conference abstracts.
- Total number of citations received: 715
-- average citation rate for publications in 1998-2005: 23
-- 28% of publications since 1998 are published in the discipline's leading journal Physical Review Letters
-- two most cited papers have received 150 and 115 citations [For comparison, only 2,340 publications in the entire history of Physical Review from 1893 to June 2003 have received more than 100 citations (see: Physics Today, June 2005, p.49).] - Co-Editor (with R. E. Robson and P. D. Drummond) of the Proceedings of the Conference on Computational Physics 2000, published as a Special Issue of the Journal of Computer Physics Communications, Vol. 142, No. 1-3 (2001).
GRANTS / AWARDS / FELLOWSHIPS
2007: Renewal of the ARC Centre of Excellence Grant -- ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum-Atom Optics, Chief Investigator (with 23 researchers from UQ, ANU and SUT).
2006: ARC Linkage International Award, Chief Investigator (with P.D.Drummond, J.F.Corney, and X.-J.Liu).
2005: ARC Centre of Excellence Fellow Award.
2003: ARC Centre of Excellence Grant -- ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum-Atom Optics, Chief Investigator (with 19 researchers from UQ, ANU and SUT).
2002: UQ Research Development Grant, Chief Investigator (with P. D. Drummond, A. Bracken, M. Reid, M. Gould, and Y-Zh. Zhang).
2001: UQ Early Career Researcher Grant.
2000: ARC Small Grant, Chief Investigator (with P.D.Drummond).
1999: ARC Small Grant, Chief Investigator (with P.D.Drummond).
1997: UQ Postdoctoral Research Fellowship.
1995: EC Action for Cooperation in Science and Technology with Central and Eastern European countries; grant towards participating at the European Research Conference on Quantum Optics (23-28 September, 1995), Davos, Switzerland.
1994: Nominated for the Young Scientists '94 award by the Pan-Armenian Fund ''Hayastan'', Armenia; finalist in the category "Physics".
1993: Grant from the International Science Foundation (Individual Grants Program for the Scientists from the Former USSR); Institute for Physical Research, National Academy of Science, Armenia.
1988: MSc Diploma with Distinction ("Red" Diploma), Yerevan State University, Yerevan, Armenia.
INVITED TALKS AND VISITING POSITIONS
2007: Participant of the "Quantum Gases Workshop", Institut Henri Poincare -- Centre Emile Borel, 14 June - 20 July 2007, Paris, France.
2007: Workshop "Non-equilibrium behavior in superfluid gases at finite temperature", 10-13 June 2007, Sandbjerg, Denmark.
2007: Workshop "Quantum Engineering based on Atoms and Photons", 26 Feb - 2 March 2007, Hannover, Germany.
2006: LPHYS'06: 15th International Laser Physics Workshop, 24-28 July 2006, Lausanne, Switzerland.
2004: LPHYS’04: 13th International Laser Physics Workshop,12-16 July 2004, Trieste, Italy.
2004: Participant of the “Quantum Gases” Program, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.
2003: Visiting Research Fellow, FOM-Instituut AMOLF, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2001: Participant of the "Physics of Ultracold Dilute Atomic Gases" Program, Benasque Centre of Science, Spain.
2001: Visiting Researcher at the University of Texas, Austin, USA.
RESEARCH INTERESTS AND EXPERIENCE
- Quantum and Atom Optics
- Bose-Einstein Condensation and Atom Lasers
- Degenerate Fermi Gases
- Ultracold molecules
- Photo-association and Feshbach resonances
- Quantum Field Theory
- Quantum and Classical Soliton Theory
- Nonlinear Optics
- Squeezed and Nonclassical States of Light
- Phase-Space Representation Theory
TEACHING & STUDENT SUPERVISION
- Number of Postgraduates supervised: 14 (total PhD students: 9; PhD completions: 4; current PhD students: 4).
- Third year course on Statistical Mechanics (1998-2000).
- Fourth year course on Quantum Optics (1999).
- Course Profile development (Statistical Mechanics); Honours Projects and PhD Theses assessments; tutorial and examination marking duties (from 1998).
REFEREEING
- Physical Review and Physical Review Letters
- J. Opt. B: Quantum & Semiclassical Optics
- Optics Communications
- J. Modern Optics
- Referee for ARC Large Grant Applications (2001, 2002)
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SKILLS
- Operating systems: Windows (administrator, user), Linux/Unix (user).
- Programming: Matlab, Mathematica, FORTRAN, HTML, SciLab.
- Other scientific software: XMDS (see: http://www.xmds.org/), Latex, Scientific Word, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, Adobe Acrobat.
- Web page design and maintenance.
OTHER PROFFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
- Member of the Australian Institute of Physics (AIP).
- Member of the American Physics Society (APS).
- Chair of the Program Committee for the International Workshop on Quantum Noise 2007, 14--18 May 2007, Caloundra, Australia.
- Member of the Program Committee and Secretary-Treasurer of the Organizing Committee for the Conference on Computational Physics 2000 (CCP2000), 3-8 December 2000, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
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Deputy-Chair of the Organizing Committee and Member of the Program Committee for the 2003 Workshop on Bose-Einstein Condensation and Quantum Information (BECQI'03), 16-20 February 2003, Caloundra, Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia.
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