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University of Otago

Physics Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Computational Physics Quantum Physics Theoretical Physics

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Ashton Bradley is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Otago, where he leads the Quantum Fluids Group. He earned a BSc with a double major in Physics and Mathematics in 1998 and an MSc in Theoretical Physics in 2001 from the University of Auckland. Bradley completed his PhD in Theoretical Physics in 2005 at Victoria University of Wellington under Professor Crispin Gardiner, with a thesis on trapped ultra-cold Bose gases. Following his doctorate, he served as a Research Associate at the University of Auckland in 2002 and held postdoctoral Research Fellow positions at the University of Queensland's ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum-Atom Optics from 2005 to 2008. In 2008, he joined the University of Otago as a NZFRST Postdoctoral Fellow, followed by a Rutherford Discovery Fellowship from 2011 to 2016. He was appointed Senior Lecturer in 2016, advanced to Senior Lecturer above the bar from 2017 to 2020, and became Associate Professor in 2021. Bradley also serves as Self-Organisation Question Leader in the Dodd-Walls Centre for Photonic and Quantum Technologies and coordinates PHSI 365 Computational Physics.