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ARC DECRA Fellow / Senior Research Fellow, University of Melbourne 🔗
Status: unreviewed revisit date: None Application status: none LOR status: not_needed
Department(s)/lab(s): School of Physics | Wood Diamond Magnetometry Group @ UMelb
Summary:

Wood works on NV centres in physically rotating diamond, a niche he essentially created: by spinning the crystal at tens of kHz he has demonstrated spin-rotation coupling, geometric phases and rotationally-induced pseudo-fields on NV ensembles, and used the rotating frame as a resource for noise-averaging and for gyroscopy. The group also works on conventional bulk NV magnetometry, dynamical decoupling sequence design and nuclear-spin bath engineering. Positioned against the established body of NV-ensemble quantum sensing work — DEER, nanoscale NMR and T1 relaxometry protocols operating at pT/sqrt(Hz) field sensitivity — his rotating-frame protocols are a direct attempt to extend the DEER/T1-relaxometry toolbox — normally applied to static ensembles at pT/sqrt(Hz) — into a regime where the sensor itself is in motion, with obvious relevance to inertial sensing and to averaging away static field gradients. Early-career PI, smaller group; a good option for a candidate wanting substantial independence.

Created at: July 12, 2026, 1:02 a.m. Updated at: July 12, 2026, 1:02 a.m. Metadata: Fresh 2026-07-11. Primary lab: rotating-diamond magnetometry group, School of Physics. Early-career independent PI (DECRA); small group.