John Canning

Biographical Details:
PhD, University of Sydney, 1996

ARC Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Chemistry, University of Sydney, 1996

ARC QEII Fellow, Optical Fibre Technology Centre, University of Sydney, 1998

Co-Founder (1999)Redfern Optical Components Pty Ltd, 1999

Consultant Redfern Photonics, 2003

Co-Founder (1999) andConsultant (2003), Redfern Integrated Optics 1999

Consultant, Australian Photonics Propriety Ltd (APPL), 2001

Øtto Mønsted Fond Visiting Professor, Danish Technical University, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2004

Principal Research Fellow, Australian Photonics Cooperative Research Centre, Australian Technology Park, 2006

Co-Founder, CTO and CEO – Centaurus Technologies Pty Ltd, 2004-2006

Villum Kann Rasmussen Visiting Professor, interdisciplinary Nanoscience Centre (iNANO), Arhus University, Arhus, Denmark 2007

ARC Professorial Fellow, School of Chemistry, University of Sydney, 2007

Head of interdisciplinary Photonics Laboratories (iPL), 2007

SPIE Fellow 2011

ARC Professorial Future Fellow, School of Chemistry, 2012

Conjoint Professor, School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, UNSW, 2012

CAPES Brazil Science Without Borders, Professor, Federal University of Technology, 2014

Research Interests:
Photonics, optics and technologies in telecommunications, sensing and diagnostics

Self-assembled photonics; supramolecular photonics; molecular self-assembly

Fibre, grating and waveguide lasers

Integrated optical fibre, grating and waveguide technologies