ProfessorBoris Kuhlmey

Boris Kuhlmey is Professor with the School of Physics, The University of Sydney.

After undergraduate studies at the Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, and a masters degree from the Insitut d'Optique (Paris-Sud, Orsay, France) he was awarded a PhD jointly by the Universite Aix Marseille III, France, and the School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia, in 2003.

He was recipient of an ARC Future Fellowship in 2009 Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2006, and was Education and Training director and CI of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Ultrahigh -bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems. He served as Associate Head (Education) for the School of Physics (2020-2022). His achievements have been recognised through a NSW Young Tall Poppy Science award by the Australian Institute of Policy and Science. 

Boris is the author of the CUDOS MOF Utilities, the first free software dedicated to the simulation of PCFs, and co-authored the book "Foundations of Photonic Crystal Fibres," now in its second edition. He has authored and co-authored over 100 publications in refereed journals, and has served on the editorial board of Nature Publishing Group's Scientific Reports, as secretary and public officer for the international ETOPIM society (Electrical, Transport and Optical Properties of Inhomogeneous Media) and on the council of the Australia New Zealand Optical Society (2023-2025).