Enabling research through leadership and through the adoption of appropriate research policy and best practice; leadership and innovation in the use of ICT to transform work practices and enhance outcomes in the university and research sectors; performing world-class research in physics, computational science & related areas and complementing this with high quality teaching & education.
Topics of special interest include: Understanding the nonperturbative behaviour of QCD and QED, Lattice gauge theory, Interpolating between quark models and perturbative QCD, Strangeness in nucleons and nuclei; hypernuclei, Modification of nucleon form factors in the nuclear medium, Tests and consequences of fundamental symmetries, Quark-hadron phase transition and heavy ion collisions, Models of nonperturbative QCD; effective meson-baryon models.
Awards: Boas Medal 2001 from the Australian Institute of Physics for "original research making the most important contribution to physics"; Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2002; Elected Fellow of the Australian Institute of Physics in 1992; Member of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) Commission on Computational Physics (C20) (from 2008).
