Dr Thomas Dixon

Lecturer

PhD (Physics) UNSW 2021
Thesis "Utilising High-Bandwidth-Samples Brownian Trajectories in Optical Tweezers: Novel Techniques and Future Directions"

B Eng (Aerospace) Hons 1st Class + B Sc (Physics) UNSW 2016

Science

School of Physics

Dr. Thomas Dixon is an Associate Lecturer (Education Focused) in the School of Physics, working primarily on laboratory education. Thomas runs the first year physics teaching laboratory, and is responsible for the design of experiments and management/training of laboratory teaching staff.

Thomas runs a physics education journal club that meets on the last Monday of every month; send him an email if you are interested in joining!

E-mail

thomas.dixon@unsw.edu.au

Location

Room G61B, Old Main Building

Publications
Awards

Journal articles | 2017

Dixon TF; Russell LW; Andres-Arroyo A; Reece PJ, 2017, 'Using back focal plane interferometry to probe the influence of Zernike aberrations in optical tweezers', Optics Letters, 42, pp. 2968 - 2971, http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OL.42.002968

Journal articles | 2015

Nguyen TH; Tsafnat N; Cetin E; Osborne B; Dixon TF, 2015, 'Low-Earth orbit satellite constellation for ADS-B based in-flight aircraft tracking', Advances in Aircraft and Spacecraft Science, 2, pp. 95 - 108, http://dx.doi.org/10.12989/aas.2015.2.1.095
Conference Papers | 2020

DIxon TF; Reece PJ, 2020, 'Stroboscopic detection of multi-colloidal hydrodynamics using time-multiplexed optical tweezers', in Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2567546

Conference Papers | 2018

Dixon T; Bennet F; Price I; Rigaut F, 2018, 'Characterizing latency for AO optical sensors: An implementation', in Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Conference Papers | 2018

Dixon TF; Reece P, 2018, 'Sensor-side Brownian noise reduction in optically trapped probe microscopy', in Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2320850

Conference Papers | 2014

Nguyen T; Cetin E; Osborne B; Tsafnat N; Dixon T, 2014, 'Space Based ADS-B via a Low-Earth Orbit Cubesat Constellation', in Proceedings of the 65th International Astronautical Congress, Toronto, presented at 65th International Astronautical Congress, Toronto, 29 September 2014 - 03 October 2014, http://iafastro.directory/iac/archive/tree/IAC-14/B4/4/IAC-14,B4,4,8,x25309.brief.pdf

2020 Dean of Science Staff Excellence Award

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