Benjamin Eggleton BSc, PhD

Professor Benjamin Eggleton is an ARC Laureate Fellow and Professor of Physics at the University of Sydney and Director of the ARC Centre for Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS). He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Physics from the University of Sydney, in 1996 and then joined Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies as a Postdoctoral Member of Staff. In 2000, he was promoted to Director within the Specialty Photonics Division of Bell Laboratories, where he was engaged in forward-looking research supporting Lucent Technologies business in optical fiber devices.

He returned to the University of Sydney in 2003 as the founding Director of CUDOS and Professor in the School of Physics. Professor Eggleton is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, the Optical Society of America, IEEE Photonics and the Australian Technology, Science and Engineering Academy (ATSE). He was the recipient of the 2011 Eureka Prize for Leadership in Science, the Walter Boas Medal of the Australian Institute of Physics and the OSA’s Adolph Lomb Medal. He was President of the Australian Optical Society, is currently Editor-in-Chief for APL Photonics and serves on the Board of Governors for IEEE Photonics.