LATEST NEWS: I am currently advertising fully-funded PhD scholarships associated with two recent grants - applications close 6 March 2026. 1. Engineering superfluid transport with dissipation 2. Harnessing many-body coherence for quantum thermodynamics with ultracold gases Please email me if you would like more details. Overview Welcome! I am a theoretical physicist (with experimental tendencies) in the School of Mathematics and Physics at the University of Queensland. My particular area of interest is the nonequilibrium dynamics of superfluid Bose-Einstein condensates and other quantum gases. You can find a slightly dated overview of my research interests here, and a list of my publications here. I currently hold two funded ARC Discovery Projects: DP250102923: Controlling superfluid transport with spatially engineered dissipation (2025-2029) with Prof. Andrew Daley, University of Oxford. DP260103158: Quantum thermodynamics with many-body systems (2026-2029) with Prof. Janet Anders, University of Exeter. Interested in working with me? I am always on the lookout for talented theoretical and experimental postgraduate students from Australia, New Zealand and further afield. The University of Queensland offers scholarships, and we have funds available for additional scholarships for exceptional students. Please browse the research group web pages for information about potential projects, or contact me at the email above. Research environment: I'm a strong believer in Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, and chair this committee for the School of Mathematics and Physics. I am committed to supporting and providing opportunities for historically obstructed groups in physics, so please get in touch. Current research fellows at UQ: Dr Angela White, Dr Lewis Williamson, Dr Andrew Groszek. Recently departed research fellows at UQ: Dr Emma Laird (2025), Dr Matthew Edmonds (2025), Dr Matt Reeves (2024), and Dr David Colas (2020). Current research students: Charlotte Thomson, Vishnu Muraleedharan Sajitha, Mason Clark, Nick Jordinson. Sukhmandeep Singh, Yllana Waller. I work with the UQ experimental quantum gas group, and together were funded by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems from 2018 - 2025 to work on quantum dynamics and thermodynamics of quantum gases. From 2020 - 2024 we held an ARC Discovery Project to investigate spin vortices in a homogenous F=1 Rb spinor condensate, in collaboration with Dan Stamper-Kurn and Blair Blakie. I was part of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies from 2017 - 2024. I am part of the broader Quantum Atom Optics theory group that formed part of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum-Atom Optics, 2003-10. From 2010-14 I held an Australian Research Council Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship. In 2015 I was a Visiting Fellow at JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA. If you are looking for the historical page for Matt's arXiv selection, go here.
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