Rate My Professor Jacinda Ginges

Associate Professor Jacinda Ginges is a theoretical physicist in the School of Mathematics and Physics at the University of Queensland. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of New South Wales. Her career includes appointments as Associate Professor at the University of Queensland since 2024, Senior Lecturer there since 2018, ARC Future Fellow from 2018 to 2022, Research Fellow at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems at the University of Sydney in 2017, Senior Research Associate at UNSW Sydney from 2014 to 2016, and ARC Australian Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer at UNSW Sydney from 2004 to 2008. Earlier, she received the Avadh Bhatia Postdoctoral Fellowship for Women at the University of Alberta in 2004. Ginges' research focuses on atomic tests of fundamental physics, developing and applying high-precision many-body methods for heavy atoms to study violations of fundamental symmetries such as parity and time-reversal, and probing nuclear structure. Her work on atomic parity violation provides stringent constraints on new physics beyond the Standard Model, complementing LHC experiments and dark matter searches. She investigates parity- and time-reversal-violating atomic electric dipole moments to limit new sources of CP-violation.

Ginges has secured major funding including an ARC Future Fellowship for heavy atoms and ions in precision tests of fundamental physics from 2018 to 2023, ARC Discovery Projects on nuclear structure and precision tests in atoms from 2025 to 2028 and probing new physics with atomic parity violation from 2023 to 2026, and the Queensland Quantum Decarbonisation Alliance from 2025 to 2030. Key publications include 'QED tests in strong fields' in Nature Physics (2025), 'Smallness of the Nuclear Polarization Effect in the Hyperfine Structure of Heavy Muonic Atoms as a Stimulus for Next-Generation Experiments' in Physical Review Letters (2025), 'Opportunities for fundamental physics research with radioactive molecules' in Reports on Progress in Physics (2024), 'Empirical determination of the Bohr-Weisskopf effect in cesium and improved tests of precision atomic theory in searches for new physics' in Physical Review Letters (2023), and 'Hyperfine anomaly in heavy atoms and its role in precision atomic searches for new physics' in Physical Review A (2021). Her contributions advance precision atomic theory, quantum electrodynamics corrections for heavy atoms, and searches for physics beyond the Standard Model.