Professor Jared Cole, Chief Investigator, FLEET (RMIT)
Congratulations to RMIT Professor Jared Cole, now a FLEET Chief Investigator.
Jared is a theoretical physicist specialising in quantum physics and decoherence theory, particularly its application to solid-state systems.
Within FLEET Jared investigates the influence of dissipation and decoherence on electronic transport in nanostructures, and its role in electronic devices based on topologically protected conduction channels.
This is key to the design of future ultra-low energy electronics – the goal of FLEET’s research theme 1 (topological materials).
Jared is also a particularly skilled communicator, with a skill for translating complicated, sometimes even esoteric quantum physics.
- Jared spoke at FLEET’s Launch in June about the new forms of physics being pursued within the Centre towards zero-dissipation electronics
- And he has previously written on the h-bar blog about Australia’s significant, little-known, strength in quantum research (with no less than four ARC Centres of Excellence now focussing on quantum physics)
- You can also listen to Jared in a wide-ranging podcast that touches on definitions of metric units, ICT energy use, and ultra-low energy transistors
- Read about the ‘flux capacitor’ developed by Jared and collaborators at EQUS earlier this year.
As well as being a member of the FLEET team Jared is an investigator within the ARC Centre of Excellence for Exciton Science, studying processes key to control and manipulation of excitons.
You can contact Jared at jared.cole@rmit.edu.au. Tell him he should be on Twitter.