ProfChristopher Poulton

Professor Chris Poulton’s research is on numerical and analytical methods in photonics, with a focus on electromagnetic and elastic wave propagation in waveguides and complex materials, as well as nonlinear interactions involving light and sound.

After receiving his PhD from the University of Sydney in 2000, he was appointed Lecturer in Applied Mathematics at the University of Liverpool UK, where he worked on analytical models of photonic and phononic crystals and co-authored a book on asymptotic methods in electromagnetism. He then worked as at the Institute for High-frequency and Quantum Electronics at the University of Karlsruhe (now KIT, Germany), where he worked with experimentalists on developing integrated nonlinear devices. In 2006, he joined the Max Planck Insitute for the Science of Light in Erlangen, Germany, where he worked on plasmonic interactions and guidance in photonic crystal fibres.

After joining UTS in 2007, he led the UTS node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Ultra-high bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems. He was Discipline Leader of the Mathematical Sciences at UTS from 2017 to 2021.