Rate My Professor John Holdsworth

With 43 years of experience in molecular science, optical sources, equipment, detection, signal extraction, and amplification, Holdsworth's research specializations include conductive polymer characterisation, LIDAR, laser applications, lasers, optical physics, and photonics. He developed a LIDAR system during his time in the Philippines, leading to 22 conference papers and training of PhD and MSc students, and has collaborated with Swinburne University on doped glass behaviour, CSIRO and University of Newcastle Geography on LIDAR, the Priority Research Centre for Organic Electronics on conductive polymer dynamics, the Optical Fibre Technology Centre on gratings and ring lasers, and colleagues on two-photon microscopy. He established the B.Sc. (Photonics), B.Sc. (Hons) (Photonics), and Photonics major programs at Newcastle. His contributions earned the Vice Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence in 2006, Faculty of Science and Information Technology Teaching Award in 2004, and Honorary Professorship from University of Santo Tomas in 2017 for developing their BS Applied Physics program. Key publications comprise 'Gratings in photonic crystal and other structured optical fibres' (2010), 'Development of a 3D, fast-scanning LiDAR system for particulate matter visualisation' (2022), and 'Tomographic reconstruction of a sample in diffuse media via the radon transform' (2020). He belongs to the Optical Society of America, SPIE, Australian Institute of Physics, and Australian and New Zealand Optical Society.