Associate Professor Matt Woolley

Scholarships of $39,206 AUD per annum are potentially available for PhD candidates in the areas of quantum learning machines, quantum control, quantum optics, and quantum optomechanics. Please contact me for details.

Dr Woolley is an Associate Professor at UNSW Canberra at the Australian Defence Force Academy. He undertakes research in Quantum Optics, Signal Processing, and Control and teaches into the Electrical Engineering program. His research interests include quantum learning machines, quantum control, quantum optics, and quantum optomechanics. He has taught Signal Processing and Control, Electrical Circuits, and Engineering Electromagnetics. He has been the Deputy Head of School (People), the Electrical Engineering Program Coordinator, and the CDF Students Program Coordinator. 

Dr Woolley obtained his BE(Hons)-BSc at the University of Tasmania. He gained his PhD at the University of Queensland, under the supervision of Professors Gerard Milburn and Andrew Doherty. He was subsequently a Postdoctoral Research Associate working with Professors Aashish Clerk (McGill University) and Alexandre Blais (Université de Sherbrooke), before joining UNSW Canberra.

Dr Woolley has collaborated with experimental groups at Cornell University, ETH Zurich, the University of Western Australia, the University of Queensland, and Aalto University. He has been a Visiting Scientist at Keio University and the University of Tokyo in 2015 (Australian Academy of Science Fellowship), and at Princeton University in 2017 (Endeavour Fellowship). He has been a Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems (EQuS 2) from 2018 until 2024, and is a member of the UNSW Physical Computation Laboratory.