ANFF is delighted to welcome Chris Gourlay as our new COO, commencing today. He joins us with fantastic experience of Australia’s R&D ecosystem, and is a master of working at the interface of industry and academia – skills and talents that we will be no doubt putting to good use.
Click this link to view the story:
https://www.anff.org.au/news/welcoming-chris-gourlay-anffs-new-coo
Jan 2022
“We are now the world leader, but we didn’t get here by accident. 15 years ago, our universities, government and industry came together and have continuously invested in this research over the last 15 years”
Alister Henskens Minister for Science, Innovation and Technology toured the world leading research facilities at ANFF-NSW@UNSW and ANFF-NSW@USYD, as part of his official visits to quantum computing research groups at UNSW and the University of Sydney, including the CQC2T and Sydney Nano. He was also joined by the NSW Chief Scientist & Engineer, Professor Hugh Durrant-Whyte.
The Minister was very impressed with ANFF-NSW’s capabilities that underpin Australia’s leadership in research and development in the Quantum Economy, which was made possible by long-term strategic investment in ANFF-NSW and other labs at UNSW and the University of Sydney. The significant potential impact on the Australian economy was emphasized with Minister Henskens noting that “This research that’s being conducted here and elsewhere in NSW is driving the industries of our future and the jobs of the future”.
ANFF CEO Dr Jane Fitzpatrick welcomed the Minister’s support and recognition of the high impact research enabled by ANFF-NSW: “Amazing to see the incredible work done at our NSW Node, which supports innovation across the economy and especially in Quantum Technologies, recognized and supported by the Minister.”
Minister Henskens comments and video footage of his tour were posted on the Minister’s twitter account, available on the links below.
Link to the story on our ANFF national page
Andrea Morello and his team have had a paper published in Nature and featured on the front cover of the journal. The paper ‘Precision tomography of a three-qubit donor quantum processor in silicon’ marks a major milestone for silicon quantum computing in demonstrating operations that are 99% error-free, high enough to detect and correct errors and hence build scalable quantum computers in silicon.
The announcement is featured in the UNSW Newsroom and on our ANFF National page
A special edition of Advanced Functional Materials has been published, focused on the fantastic work being conducted in ANFF labs across Australia.
The issue features research and reviews from all eight of ANFF’s Nodes, covering a huge gambit of ANFF-enabled projects with application areas ranging from quantum to biotechnologies, on to photonics and electronics, and more.
It provides a glimpse of some of the groundbreaking science conducted in Australia, and demonstrates that the ANFF-enabled national nanofabrication community is at the forefront of global research.
Click here to view the edition, titled Special Issue: Focus Issue on the Australian National Fabrication Facility. You can view the editorial by clicking here.
ANFF would like to thank Dr Roey Elnathan and Prof. Nico Voelcker for their enormous efforts in making this a reality.
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