Rate My Professor Daniel Baillie

Dr. Daniel Baillie is a Research Fellow in the Department of Physics, Sciences Division, at the University of Otago. He completed his Master of Science in Physics with distinction in 2009 and his Doctor of Philosophy in 2013, both at the University of Otago. His master's thesis, "Finite-temperature theory of bosons in optical lattices," and doctoral thesis, "Theory of cold dipolar and toroidal gases," established his expertise in theoretical studies of quantum many-body systems. Baillie's research specializations include ultra-cold atomic gases, dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates, spinor Bose-Einstein condensates, superfluid phases in optical lattices, and supersolids. As an Associate Investigator at the Dodd-Walls Centre for Photonic and Quantum Technologies since 2015, he contributes to advancements in quantum technologies. He supervises doctoral students and has presented on topics such as supersolid magnetic gases at the New Zealand Institute of Physics conference in 2021.

Baillie's key publications encompass "A general theory of flattened dipolar condensates" with P. B. Blakie in New Journal of Physics (2015), "Excitations of a two-dimensional supersolid" with E. Poli, F. Ferlaino, and P. B. Blakie in Physical Review A (2024), and "Superfluid fraction tensor of a two-dimensional supersolid" (2024). His scholarly work has accumulated over 2,000 citations on Google Scholar. In 2018, he was honored with the Early Career Researcher of the Year award by the University of Otago Division of Sciences. Baillie's theoretical predictions, including quantum gas droplets, have been experimentally confirmed, influencing the field of ultra-cold quantum gases.