Great dinner in Newtown tonight as we farewelled Paul Newman after seven years at the University of Sydney and exceptional leadership of our Clinical Trials team. A fantastic colleague and steady presence in our leadership group. All the best, Paul — hope to keep seeing you.

Great day with the team at our annual research group retreat (@Knowledge Hub) - strengthening teamwork, celebrating achievements, and looking ahead to new challenges & opportunities. We even wrapped up a first-aid course… practical, relevant, & fun. A valuable reset with a fantastic group.

Sydney researchers tame 'noisy' light in tiny lasers Findings pave the way for next-generation GPS, quantum machines and communications technology. www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion...

🎉The NSW Smart Sensing Network team 📸 was thrilled to attend the InnovationAus.com 2025 Awards for Excellence at Sydney Town Hall last night. Celebrated as the Oscars 🏆 of the innovation sector, the awards celebrated the brightest minds shaping the nation's future.

Researchers at the University of Sydney have demonstrated a new way to suppress noise in microchip-scale Brillouin lasers by introducing nanoscale “speed bumps” inside the devices’ optical cavity. www.australianmanufacturing.com.au/university-o...

I’m pleased to share our latest invited review article just published in Optica's journal Optical Materials Express: “Integrated nonlinear photonics with chalcogenide glasses: compositions, properties, applications, and roadmap.” opg.optica.org/ome/fulltext...

Great session today at the NSW Smart Sensing Network (NSSN) Board meeting, hosted at the Office of the NSW Chief Scientist here in Sydney. Always energising to sit around the table with such a sharp group of thinkers from industry, government and our member universities.

Great session today at the NSW Smart Sensing Network (NSSN) Board meeting, hosted at the Office of the NSW Chief Scientist here in Sydney. Always energising to sit around the table with such a sharp group of thinkers from industry, government and our member universities.

Spotted in local area

Stimulating day at Massachusetts Institute of Technology at the famous Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT, hosted by Marin Soljacic and his team, shown around by #Jelena_Notaros and her amazing students and then with #Juejun_Hu- presenting a seminar / enjoyable lunch.

An enjoyable day at the INRS - Institut national de la recherche scientifique facility in Montreal, hosted by photonics legends #Jose_Azana and Roberto Morandotti, touring impressive laboratories, exploring new collaborations and research ecosystems - and a great lunch.

Great visit to Quebec for the Microwave Photonics topical meeting and a visit to Laval University

Last night we gathered with colleagues and friends of IPOS for the biennial Peter Domachuk Memorial Lecture from Prof. Shanhui Fan (Stanford), one of the world’s leading minds in photonics and electromagnetism. We closed with dinner at the Opera House.

Grateful to join the APL Photonics Editors meeting with our outstanding Associate Editors & AIP Publishing staff. My last as EiC after 10 years—it’s been a great ride! Thanks to all who’ve shared this journey

Grateful to join the APL Photonics Editors meeting with our outstanding Associate Editors & AIP Publishing staff. My last as EiC after 10 years—it’s been a great ride! Thanks to all who’ve shared this journey

🚀 The NSW Smart Sensing Network (NSSN) is now live on #Bluesky! Follow the NSSN for: 🔹 Smart sensing innovations 🔹 Research–industry collaborations 🔹 Solutions for NSW’s economy, environment & society 👉 Join this network of innovators here: bsky.app/profile/nsws...

🚀 The NSW Smart Sensing Network (NSSN) is now live on #Bluesky! Follow the NSSN for: 🔹 Smart sensing innovations 🔹 Research–industry collaborations 🔹 Solutions for NSW’s economy, environment & society 👉 Join this network of innovators here: bsky.app/profile/nsws...

It was a pleasure to host two outstanding leaders this morning – Professor Tony Haymet PhD, Australia's Chief Scientist, and Professor Professor Reuben Bolt, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous Strategy and Services) at the University of Sydney – for a fast-paced tour of our photonics laboratories

Great to be at @questacon in Canberra with the @NSWsensing team for engagement - kicking off National Science Week

Great to meet the Australian Chief Scientist Tony Haymet PhD - and to hear his exciting vision for Australian science and innovation, 🇦🇺 future sovereign R&D (and innovation) ecosystem. @NSWsensing @questacon

Great couple of days in Cardiff for the European Conference on Integrated Optics (ECIO) 2025 — catching up with old friends, making new connections and leading edge photonics research

Great trip to Bristol University hosted by Dr Alex Clark, (Director of the Quantum Engineering Technology Labs, former CUDOS postdoc), who is doing fantastic work leading the Centre and his team.

Great to be in London / UK for a week of conference and meetings, kicked off with breakfast with @silentypewriter.bsky.social

Great Sunday afternoon at the Rabbitohs game

New from our group @sydney_uni with team @UniofAdelaide via #COMBS_COE Event-based cameras track both passive & active matter—including sperm cells—with 100x less data vs sCMOS. Smart sensing meets fertility science! #Photonics #EdgeComputing #COMBS doi.org/10.1002/lpor...

Just wrapped up a very successful leadership retreat with the outstanding Research Operations Division leadership team at the University of Sydney. It was a productive and energising day — a chance to step back, reflect on what we’ve achieved, and sharpen our focus for the next phase.

Heading back to Sydney from LAX after an energising week at the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) conference. #CLEO2025 lived up to its reputation as the premier forum for cutting-edge photonics and optical physics with outstanding science and technology driving impact.

Great to celebrate APL Photonics @aplphotonics with colleagues and friends of APLP at CLEO last night! Lots of fun chatting about the journal and sharing stories from the past 10 years.

APL Photonics Editor-in-Chief, @profbeneggleton.bsky.social, will be leading a short course on Principles and Applications of Guided Wave Nonlinear Optics Monday, May 5 as part of #CLEO2025! Learn more 👇 aippub.org/3YuY46J

Friday is a day I get to spend in my physics office and with my research group and even get to walk into the lab to see what’s happening ..🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️

Great to tour the amazing Chris O'Brien Lifehouse with my colleague Prof David R McKenzie from @Sydney_Uni - David from the School of Physics has invented and translated Plasma technology to medicine at Chris O’Brien Lifehouse (an Affiliated organisation of @Sydney_Uni)

Great to be in Penrith (at panthers) for the Western Sydney Manufacturers forum: Building profits on the path to sustainability- for the NSW Smart Sensing Network (NSSN) session in “Measuring and monitoring for net-zero compliance”. M

The International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICONN) will be held from 3-5 February 2026 in Sydney, Australia! Join us to discuss nano in energy, photonics, quantum, MedTech, electronics and more. Visit the website at iconnference.com #ICONN2026 #NCRIS @profbeneggleton.bsky.social

Wrapping up an amazing week in the USA, Washington DC and New York City, with the @AmChamAU Australia Alliance Summit. Fabulous to listen and understand what leaders and those in the know are thinking 60 days in to trumps presidency and to hangout with the fantastic delegation

Wrapping up an amazing week in the USA, Washington DC and New York City, with the @AmChamAU Australia Alliance Summit. Fabulous to listen and understand what leaders and those in the know are thinking 60 days in to trumps presidency and to hangout with the fantastic delegation

Save the date ICONN2026 - International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 3-5 FEB 2026 SYDNEY (iconnference.com)! Plenaries include Nobel Laureate Konstantin Novoselov Supported by ANFF, chaired by @AnitaHoBaillie @ProfBenEggleton, Martina Stenzel & @wenlongcheng

Save the date ICONN2026 - International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 3-5 FEB 2026 SYDNEY (iconnference.com)! Plenaries include Nobel Laureate Konstantin Novoselov Supported by ANFF, chaired by @AnitaHoBaillie @ProfBenEggleton, Martina Stenzel & @wenlongcheng

Out and about with my lovely @sydneyuni.bsky.social colleagues at the Royal Society of NSW annual dinner and Award Presentations held at Parliament House, Sydney

Nice to see our publication “On-Chip Stimulated Brillouin Scattering to Linearize a Dual-Parallel Mach-Zehnder Modulator”, very fruitful collaboration with Prof José Capmany’s team, from Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/109...

Exciting leadership opportunity - APL Photonics Editor-in-Chief appAIP Publishing is seeking an Editor-in-Chief for APL Photonics, a global, gold open access journal at the forefront of photonics research t.co/9OmqEMAfia

Sunday afternoon

Great to collaborate with Reena Parihar and Amol Choudhary from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and our long term collaborators at ANU to demonstrate “On-chip power efficient MHz to GHz tunable Brillouin microwave photonic filters,” published in APL Photonics. pubs.aip.org/aip/app/arti...

Great to collaborate with Reena Parihar and Amol Choudhary from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and our long term collaborators at ANU to demonstrate “On-chip power efficient MHz to GHz tunable Brillouin microwave photonic filters,” published in APL Photonics. pubs.aip.org/aip/app/arti...

Happy Australia Day

Check out all the fantastic Special Topics in APL Photonics pubs.aip.org/app/collecti...

Sydney what happened to summer?

Morning walk

updating the group website - eggleton-group.sydney.edu.au