"Atom Optics" Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop Signed Announcement Todd Mueller COA

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"Atom Optics" Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop Hand Signed Announcement. This item is certified authentic by Todd Mueller Autographs and comes with their Certificate of Authenticity.
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Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop
AO
FAA
is a professor of
physics
at the
University of Queensland
and an Officer of the
Order of Australia
. She has led pioneering research in atom optics, laser micro-manipulation using
optical tweezers
, laser enhanced
ionisation
spectroscopy
,
biophysics
and
quantum physics
.
Halina Rubinsztein (later Rubinsztein-Dunlop) was born in Poland. She emigrated to Sweden where she obtained her BSc and PhD degree from the
University of Gothenburg
.
[4]
Rubinsztein-Dunlop was encouraged to be curious about the world by her mother, also a physicist. In an interview for
SPIE
, she credits her mother's guidance and enthusiasm for science: "she taught me to persist and to be inquisitive and to want to understand, and also - and I think this is what was important - she showed me that women can do it. It was infectious,"
She moved to Australia in 1989,
shortly after her marriage to engineer Gordon Dunlop.
Rubinsztein-Dunlop completed her PhD titled
Atomic-beam magnetic resonance investigations of refractory elements and metastable states of lead
at the University of Gothenburg in 1978. After moving to Australia in 1989, Rubinsztein-Dunlop joined the Department of Physics at the
University of Queensland
where she formed a research group studying laser physics. In 1995, she helped establish a Science in Action program that was used for outreach in educational programs for schools.
Rubinsztein-Dunlop was appointed Professor of physics in 2000. She held the role of head of the department of physics as well as the head of the School of Mathematics and Physics at the
University of Queensland
from 2006–2013. She is the Director of the Quantum Science Laboratory and leads one of the scientific programs of the
Australian Research Council
Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems. In 2011 she was a guest editor for the
Journal of Optics
on a special issue about
optical tweezers
, published by the
Institute of Physics
.
In 2016 Rubinsztein-Dunlop was made Fellow of the
Australian Academy of Science
. She was appointed an Officer of the
Order of Australia
(AO) in the Queen's
2018 Birthday Honours
List for "distinguished service to laser physics and nano-optics as a researcher, mentor and academic, to the promotion of educational programs, and to women in science". During the 2018 international scientific conference
SPIE
, the Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation XV programme held a special session honouring Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop.
An
Australian Museum Eureka Prize
was awarded to the University of Queensland Optical Physics in Neuroscience team, consisting of Rubinsztein-Dunlop alongside Ethan Scott and Itia Favre-Bulle for their study of the brain and how it detects gravity and motion. The full title of the award is the 2018 UNSW Eureka Prize for Excellence in Interdisciplinary Scientific Research.