Murray Batchelor

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Murray Thomas Batchelor (born August 27, 1961, in Taree, New South Wales), is an ARC Professorial Fellow in the Department of Theoretical Physics and the Department of Mathematics at the Australian National University. He is best known for his work in mathematical physics, and is currently Head of the Department of Theoretical Physics in the Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering.

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[edit] Academic career

Batchelor finished an Honours degree in Theoretical Physics at the University of New South Wales in 1983, graduating with a University Medal. He completed a PhD in Mathematics in 1987.

His first postdoctoral research position was at the Lorentz Institute in Leiden. After a time as a postdoctoral research fellow in mathematics at the University of Melbourne he took up a QEII Fellowship at the Australian National University. He then was awarded two successive ARC Senior Research Fellowships, followed by an ARC Professorial Fellowship in 2003.

Batchelor has held visiting positions at a number of universities, including the University of Oxford, the University of Tokyo and Institut Henri Poincaré.

During his career, Batchelor has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers. He is a Fellow of the Australian Mathematical Society, the Australian Institute of Physics and the Institute of Physics (UK).

Batchelor is Mathematical Physics Section Editor of Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical.

[edit] Public Roles

Batchelor is currently serving on the Mathematical and Information Sciences and Technology Assessment Panel for the Australian Research Quality Framework.

[edit] Awards

  • University Medal, UNSW - 1983
  • ARC Professorial Fellowship 2003

[edit] External links

  • [1] Personal home page
  • [2] Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical

[edit] Selected bibliography

  • The Bethe Ansatz after 75 years, M. T. Batchelor, Physics Today (2007) 60:36-40.