Professor Keith Nugent FAA B.Sc. (Adel), PhD (ANU) Professor of Physics and ARC Federation Fellow Phone: +61 3 8344 5446 Fax: +613 Email: [email protected] Homepage: www.ph.unimelb.edu.au/

Professor Nugent was educated at the University of Adelaide and the Australian National University. Professor Nugent's interests are in x-ray and visible optics and he has published over 90 refereed papers in these areas. Professor Nugent was awarded an R&D100; award for one of the 100 most important inventions of 1988, the 1989 Pawsey Medal from the Australian Academy of Science and the 1991 Edgeworth-David Medal from the Royal Society of NSW for his contributions to Science. In 1997 he was awarded the Boas Medal from the Australian Institute of Physics, its highest award. He was elected to the Australian Academy of Science in 2000. Professor Nugent has embraced the need to commercialise the intellectual property arising from his research. He has been awarded six patents and has been involved with two start-up companies. One of these, Iatia, was recently awarded a $1.8 million R&D; Start Grant to develop Quantitative Phase Imaging based on Professor Nugent’s pathbreaking research.