Professor Donna Strickland Public Lecture

We invite you join us for the Quantum Year National Tour Brisbane public lecture and fireside chat with Nobel Laureate Professor Donna Strickland.

This free event will take place on 14 July at The Edge, State Library of Queensland, 5:45pm arrival for 6:00pm start, to celebrate the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology. The event will also be live streamed.

About the Quantum Year National Tour

2018 Nobel Laureate in Physics, Professor Donna Strickland, will headline the Quantum Year National Tour, which will bring quantum science and educational activities directly to communities around Australia.

• Melbourne – Monday 7 July

• Canberra – Thursday 10 July

• Brisbane – Monday 14 July

• Sydney – Tuesday 15 July

Together, we are celebrating the 2025 Quantum Year by bringing world-class physics to communities around Australia. Details of other Tour events are available here.

Organising Partners

We thank the Australian Institute of Physics’ Organising Partners in each city for their support of the Quantum Year National Tour. For Brisbane, this event is supported by the ARC Centre of Excellence in Quantum Biotechnology (QUBIC), the Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems (EQUS), the Queensland Quantum and Advanced Technologies Research Institute (QUATRI), QUT Centre for Materials Science, and the Australian Institute of Physics Queensland branch (AIP).

About Professor Strickland

Donna Strickland is a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Waterloo and is one of the recipients of the Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 for developing chirped pulse amplification with Professor Gérard Mourou, her PhD supervisor at the time. They published their Nobel prize-winning research in 1985 when Professor Strickland was a PhD student at the University of Rochester.

Professor Strickland earned a B.Eng. from McMaster University and a PhD in optics from the University of Rochester. She was a research associate at the National Research Council Canada, a physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and a member of technical staff at Princeton University. In 1997, she joined the University of Waterloo, where her ultrafast laser group develops high-intensity laser systems for nonlinear optics investigations. She was named a 2021 Hagler Fellow of Texas A&M University and sits on the Growth Technology Advisory Board of Applied Materials.