Warwick Bowen
Warwick Bowen is an Australian quantum physicist and nanotechnologist at The University of Queensland. He leads the Quantum Optics Laboratory, is Director of the UQ Precision Sensing Initiative and is one of three Theme Leaders of the Australian Centre for Engineered Quantum Systems. Education Bowen attended the University of Otago in New Zealand, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree with Honours in Physics in 1999. He went on to earn a PhD in Physics at the Australian National University in 2004, and was awarded the 2004 Bragg Gold Medal for Excellence in Physics from the Australian Institute of Physics, which recognizes the best PhD thesis in physics by a student from an Australian university. Bowen went on to become Moore Postdoctoral Fellow at the California Institute of Technology in 2004 and 2005. Career In 2005, Bowen was recruited to a faculty position in the Department of Physics at the University of Otago. Then, in 2008, he commenced a faculty position at the School of Mathematics and Physics at the University of Queensland, where he became a full Professor in 2016. He was awarded a five-year Australian Research Council (ARC) Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship in 2009, and went on