Prof Robert G. Clark This is Me

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1. 1. www.arc.gov.au

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   Published on: 6/29/2008   Last Visited: 6/29/2008

   Professor Robert Clark
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   Professor Robert Clark
   
   Research Project: Fault-tolerant operation and scale-up of a silicon quantum computer beyond laboratory prototypes.
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   Professor Clark's early career, commencing at age 16, involved 10 years service as an officer in the Royal Australian Navy (1969-79), during which time he undertook his BSc degree at the Royal Australian Naval College, Jervis Bay and UNSW.At RANC he was awarded the E.E. Mayo Prize for top academic performance and the Navigation Prize following deployment in HMAS Anzac.He served in eight RAN ships and completed an Operations and Weapons course with the Royal Navy, UK.He also held the position of RAN Ships Diving Officer and was promoted to Lieutenant.
   
   On resigning from the RAN he completed a PhD in Physics at UNSW and the Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford.After a postdoctoral research position at the Clarendon Laboratory he was appointed University Lecturer in Physics at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Praelector in Physics at the Queen's College, Oxford in 1984.He headed a research group at the Clarendon Laboratory investigating quantum effects in advanced semiconductor systems.He returned to Australia in 1991 to take up the position of Professor of Experimental Physics at UNSW, where he established the National Magnet Laboratory and Semiconductor Nanofabrication Facility.He was appointed Director of the ARC Special Research Centre for Quantum Computer Technology in 2000.He has been a member of the Editorial Board of the international journal Solid State Communications since 1993 and the Australian representative for nanotechnology with the International Union of Vacuum Science since 1995.Since 1998 he has been a consultant to the US Department of Energy, Los Alamos National Laboratory.
   
   Whilst at Oxford his research was chosen for highlight by the United Kingdom's SERC in its report to Parliament.He was conferred UK Mott Lecturer at the European Physical Society Meeting in 1991 for his research in condensed matter physics.In 1994 he was elected Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Indiana University, USA for his research achievements carried out in Australia.In 1998 was awarded the Walter Boas Medal of the Australian Institute of Physics. Most recently he was honoured with the title Scientia Professor at UNSW and was elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science.
   
   Assessors in considering his work said:"Professor Clark has established two of the country's most advanced research laboratories, the National Magnet Laboratory and Semiconductor Nanofabrication Facility, both central to the new Australian Research Council SRC for Quantum Computer Technology of which he is Director.Research highlights include some of the first experimental investigations of fractional electronic charge in the fractional quantum Hall regime and the elucidation of the critical role played by electron spin (cited by R.B. Laughlin in his Nobel Prize review).Important experiments also include the optical detection of the quantum Hall effect and electron solid (Wigner crystal) and most recently the investigation of quantum effects in semiconductor nanostructures."
   
   Research Program:Professor Clark has been at the forefront of the development of quantum computing.His research centre and his research teams are developing ways to fabricate and test the critical working elements of a quantum processor which, when fully developed, will store information and outperform conventional silicon-based computers.
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   With this Federation Fellowship, Professor Clark will launch a new strategic research program within the Centre to address the key issue of interfacing laboratory quantum devices with conventional silicon microelectronics.

2. 2. Australian Research Council (ARC) - Selection Reports and Funded Projects: Federation Fellowships

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   Published on: 1/8/2007   Last Visited: 1/8/2007

   Professor Robert Clark
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   Professor Robert Clark
   
   Research Project: Fault-tolerant operation and scale-up of a silicon quantum computer beyond laboratory prototypes.
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   Professor Clark's early career, commencing at age 16, involved 10 years service as an officer in the Royal Australian Navy (1969-79), during which time he undertook his BSc degree at the Royal Australian Naval College, Jervis Bay and UNSW.At RANC he was awarded the E.E. Mayo Prize for top academic performance and the Navigation Prize following deployment in HMAS Anzac.He served in eight RAN ships and completed an Operations and Weapons course with the Royal Navy, UK.He also held the position of RAN Ships Diving Officer and was promoted to Lieutenant. On resigning from the RAN he completed a PhD in Physics at UNSW and the Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford.After a postdoctoral research position at the Clarendon Laboratory he was appointed University Lecturer in Physics at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Praelector in Physics at the Queen's College, Oxford in 1984.He headed a research group at the Clarendon Laboratory investigating quantum effects in advanced semiconductor systems.He returned to Australia in 1991 to take up the position of Professor of Experimental Physics at UNSW, where he established the National Magnet Laboratory and Semiconductor Nanofabrication Facility.He was appointed Director of the ARC Special Research Centre for Quantum Computer Technology in 2000.He has been a member of the Editorial Board of the international journal Solid State Communications since 1993 and the Australian representative for nanotechnology with the International Union of Vacuum Science since 1995.Since 1998 he has been a consultant to the US Department of Energy, Los Alamos National Laboratory.
   
   Whilst at Oxford his research was chosen for highlight by the United Kingdom's SERC in its report to Parliament.He was conferred UK Mott Lecturer at the European Physical Society Meeting in 1991 for his research in condensed matter physics.In 1994 he was elected Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Indiana University, USA for his research achievements carried out in Australia.In 1998 was awarded the Walter Boas Medal of the Australian Institute of Physics. Most recently he was honoured with the title Scientia Professor at UNSW and was elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science.
   
   Assessors in considering his work said:"Professor Clark has established two of the country's most advanced research laboratories, the National Magnet Laboratory and Semiconductor Nanofabrication Facility, both central to the new Australian Research Council SRC for Quantum Computer Technology of which he is Director.Research highlights include some of the first experimental investigations of fractional electronic charge in the fractional quantum Hall regime and the elucidation of the critical role played by electron spin (cited by R.B. Laughlin in his Nobel Prize review).Important experiments also include the optical detection of the quantum Hall effect and electron solid (Wigner crystal) and most recently the investigation of quantum effects in semiconductor nanostructures."
   
   Research Program:Professor Clark has been at the forefront of the development of quantum computing.His research centre and his research teams are developing ways to fabricate and test the critical working elements of a quantum processor which, when fully developed, will store information and outperform conventional silicon-based computers.
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   With this Federation Fellowship, Professor Clark will launch a new strategic research program within the Centre to address the key issue of interfacing laboratory quantum devices with conventional silicon microelectronics.

3. 3. Qucor

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   Published on: 4/21/2008   Last Visited: 4/21/2008

   ROBERT G. CLARK
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   Robert is Director of the Centre for Quantum Computer Technology, is a Professor of Experimental Physics and Scientia Professor at the University of New South Wales, and is an Australian Government Federation Fellow.
   
   His early career involved 10 years service as an officer in the Royal Australian Navy attaining the rank of Lieutenant.On resigning from the RAN he completed a PhD in Physics at UNSW and the Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford.
   
   At the Clarendon Laboratory from 1984, he headed a research group investigating quantum effects in advanced semiconductor systems.He returned to Australia in 1991 to take up the position of Professor of Experimental Physics at UNSW, where he established the National Magnet Laboratory and Semiconductor Nanofabrication Facility.These facilities provide an Australian capability to fabricate sophisticated semiconductor nanostructure devices and to measure their quantum properties.He was appointed Director of the ARC Special Research Centre for Quantum Computer Technology in 2000 (ARC Centre of Excellence from 2003).
   
   At Oxford Robert received a Wolfson award in 1988 for prestigious research and was conferred UK Mott Lecturer at the European Physical Society Meeting in 1991 for his research in condensed matter physics.In 1998 he was awarded the Walter Boas Medal of the Australian Institute of Physics, and in 2000 was honoured with the title Scientia Professor at the University of NSW.In 2001 he was elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and was a recipient of an inaugural Federation Fellowship by the Australian Government.In 2003 he was awarded a Centenary Medal and was selected in the Bulletin Magazine's Australian "Smart 100" list for innovation and achievement.