Rate My Professor Andy Boes

Dr Andy (Andreas) Boes is an Associate Professor and the Academic Lead for Research and Innovation in the School of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering at Adelaide University, formerly the University of Adelaide. He completed his PhD in Engineering at RMIT University in 2016, earning the Prize for Research Excellence – HDR (Technology). From 2016 to 2022, Boes served as a Research Fellow and later Senior Research Fellow at RMIT University, including a sabbatical as Visiting Research Scholar at the University of California, Santa Barbara from 2017 to 2018, collaborating with Professor John Bowers on photonic integrated circuits. He joined the University of Adelaide in 2022 as Senior Lecturer and advanced to Associate Professor in 2026. Affiliated with the Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing, his research specializes in photonic integrated circuits, nonlinear photonics, optical frequency combs, microwave photonics, and optoelectronics. Boes's achievements include the RMIT Award for Research Excellence – Early Career Researcher (Technology), Victoria Fellowship, Geoff Opat Early Career Researcher Prize in 2020, and ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) fellowship in 2023 valued at $456,000 for 'Precision Rulers for the Visible - Chip Scale Optical Frequency Combs'.

Boes has secured over $66.2 million in research funding, including $20.7 million as lead investigator, supporting initiatives such as the ARC Centre of Excellence in Optical Microcombs for Breakthrough Science (COMBS, $34.9 million, 2023–2030), ARC Training Centre in Current and Emergent Quantum Technologies ($4.87 million, 2025–2030), and Defence Trailblazer grants for quantum sensing and timekeeping totaling $17.2 million (2025–2026). His key publications demonstrate significant impact: 'Lithium niobate photonics: Unlocking the electromagnetic spectrum' (Science, 2023, 469 Web of Science citations); '11 TOPS photonic convolutional accelerator for optical neural networks' (Nature, 2021, 938 Web of Science citations); 'Status and Potential of Lithium Niobate on Insulator (LNOI) for Photonic Integrated Circuits' (Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2018, 600 Web of Science citations). These contributions advance photonic technologies for quantum sensing, optical clocks, and industry translation, with over 12,000 career citations on Google Scholar.