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Professor Jim Piper

Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) - Macquarie University

Jim Piper was appointed DVC(R) at Macquarie University in Sydney in 2003.  He was formerly the Dean of Division of Information and Communication Sciences at Macquarie University from 1997 to 2002; and previously Professor of Physics at Macquarie from 1984.

Professor Piper graduated from the University of Otago, New Zealand with a BSc Honours in Physics.  He remained at the University of Otago for his doctoral research and was subsequently awarded a DPhil in Physics.

In 1971 Professor Piper accepted a Research Fellowship at Oxford University for four years before moving to Australia and taking up a position at Macquarie University as Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor in Physics.

Throughout his career, Professor Piper has received many distinguished awards including the Pawsey Medal (1982), the Australian Optical Society Medal (1997) and more recently was awarded the Carnegie Centenary Professorship from the Carnegie Trust Universities of Scotland (2004).

Professor Piper has extensive expertise and experience gained from over 30 years of research in lasers, optics and photonics, and applications in micro fabrication.

Phone: (+ 61 2) 9850-8645
Fax: (+61 2) 9850-8799
E-mail: jim.piper@vc.mq.edu.au