Deputy Director ANU Climate Change Institute (ANU College of Physical Sciences)

BSc, ANU

MSc, ANU

PhD, DIC, Imperial College, London

Professional Background

Senior Fellow, Atomic and Molecular Physics Laboratories, Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, Institute of Advanced Studies, Australian National University

Fellow of the Optical Society of America

Fellow of the Australian Institute of Physics

Prof Baldwin is the Centre Deputy Director, ANU IAS Node Director, ARC CoE for Quantum-Atom Optics at the Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering

Research and Teaching Interests

Quantum and Atom Optics

Laser Cooling and Trapping of Atoms

Bose-Einstein Condensation

Metastable Helium Atom Optics

Nonlinear Optics

Laser Spectroscopy of Atoms and Molecules

Coherent Generation of VUV Radiation

Notable Publications

Electron collisions with laser cooled and trapped metastable helium atoms: Total scattering cross sections.
L.J. Uhlmann, R. Dall, A.G. Truscott, M.D. Hoogerland, K.G.H. Baldwin and S.J. Buckman,
Physical Review Letters 94, 173201 (2005).

Metastable helium: Atom optics with nano-grenades.
K.G.H. Baldwin,
Contemporary Physics, 46 (2), 105 – 120 (2005).

A high flux, liquid-helium cooled source of metastable rare gas atoms.
J.A. Swansson, K.G.H. Baldwin, M.D. Hoogerland, A.G. Truscott, and S.J. Buckman,
Applied Physics B, 79 (4), 485 - 489 (2004).

Quantum reflection of metastable helium 23S atoms in hollow optical fibres.
X.W. Halliwell, H. Friedrich, S.T. Gibson and K.G.H. Baldwin,