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Professor Peter Robinson

Federation Fellowship winner 2008.

Project : Dynamics of multiscale complex systems.

Current institution : The University of Sydney .

Host institution : The University of Sydney .

Primary research field : Theoretical and condensed matter physics.

Professor Robinson is Director of the Centre for Wave Physics at The University of Sydney and Deputy Director of the Brain Dynamics Centre at Westmead Hospital . An internationally recognised interdisciplinary physicist, he has made ground-breaking contributions to wave and particle physics and quantitative brain analysis.

Professor Robinson will investigate complex plasma and neural systems with the aim of using the results to increase the understanding of multiscale plasma dynamics, especially in space physics, and multiscale neural dynamics of brain function and synchrony.

Professor Robinson obtained his PhD in theoretical physics at The University of Sydney (USyd). He is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Physics and has been awarded an ARC Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship, the Bede Morris Fellowship of the Australian and French Academies of Sciences, and a USyd Eleanor Sophia Wood Travelling Fellowship.

His outstanding work has been recognised with the Royal Societies of Australia Eureka Prize for Interdisciplinary Scientific Research in 2003, the Australian Institute of Physics Walter Boas Medal in 2002, the Royal Society of New South Wales Edgeworth David Medal in 1996, and the Australian Academy of Sciences Pawsey Medal in 1995.

This is his second Federation Fellowship .