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Position
Senior Lecturer in Physics and
400-level Course Supervisor
Qualifications
PhD
Room
618, Physics and Astronomy
Contact Details
Phone: +64 3 364-3308
Internal Phone: 3308
Email: jon-paul.wells@canterbury.ac.nz
Postal address:
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Canterbury,
Private Bag 4800,
Christchurch 8140,
New Zealand
Under Graduate Courses
- PHYS221-10S1 (C) Semester One Waves, Optics and Circuits
- PHYS381-10S2 (C) Semester Two Advanced Experimental Physics and Astronomy
- ASTR381-10S2 (C) Semester Two Advanced Experiments in Physics and Astronomy
Graduate Courses
Department Administration
- 400-level Course Supervisor
- Department publications, promotion and outreach
Background
JPRW finished his PhD in laser spectroscopy of rare earth doped optoelectronic materials in 1997. He spent March 1997 - Feb 1999 at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow (UK) where femtosecond pump-probe techniques were performed with the broad objective of understanding non-radiative processes in near infrared emitters. In March 1999 he moved to the Dutch FELIX free electron laser facility in Nieuwegein. In close collaboration with Universiteit Utrecht and the University of Canterbury (NZ), an extensive vibrational dynamics programme was developed. From June 2002 until June 2006, he held a lectureship in ultrafast semiconductor physics in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Sheffield, working on some rather diverse problems in the physics of optoelectronic materials. In August 2006, he returned to New Zealand to lead the ring laser group at Canterbury.
Research Interests
- UC Research Profile
- Ring lasers, interferometry and applications,
- Optoelectronic materials,
- Free electron laser spectroscopy.