Professor Michael Tobar is a leading researcher in precision and quantum limited measurement and testing fundamental physics, which has been recognised by many awards both internationally and nationally as well as many invited talks at international conferences. Within EQUS, Professor Tobar is a Research Theme Leader, Node manager, and Chief Investigator.
He has many international collaborations, including current joint projects with Humboldt University Berlin, UC Berkeley, NIST Bolder, Saarland University, Warsaw University of Technology, FEMTO-ST Besancon, Paris Observatory France, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Wuhan, Washington University Seattle, XLIM Limoges France, with publications or presentations with all these groups in the last two years. Professor Tobar is the focal point of international space missions involving the highest precision clocks in space. He was appointed as the only non-European Science Coordinator of the European Space Agency's (ESA) Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space (ACES) mission on board the International Space Station (ISS).
Qualifications:
PhD, University of Western Australia, Australia (1993)
BSc (Hons), Monash University, Australia (1987)
BEng (Hons), Monash University, Australia (1987)
