IPAS Videos

DSTG is conducting critical work using Quantum science in partnership with IPAS' teams. Next-generation atomic clocks, with Prof Andre Luiten and a process called quantum-secured time-transfer with Prof Glenn Solomon.

IPAS has five Chief Innovators working with the ARC Centre of Excellence in Microcombs for Breakthrough Science (COMBS). Hear from Prof Andre Luiten and Associate Dr Andy Boes.

Associate Professor Jiawen Li talks about her innovative work in biomedical engineering.

Finalist, 2025 Eureka Prize for Leadership in Science, Professor Mark Hutchinson is reshaping Australia’s research and innovation landscape.

Explore The Journey of Light exhibition. See how photonics — the fusion of glass and light — creates breakthroughs that impact our everyday lives. Curated by the Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing (IPAS) and ANFF-Optofab Adelaide.

Spinoff company QuantX Labs, led in part by Prof Andre Luiten, IPAS chief innovator and leader of the Precision Measurement Group, has been on a ‘spectacular journey’ with DSTG to develop precision timing and quantum sensor products to enhance communications, navigation, surveillance, and defence systems.

2024 South Australian Scientist of the Year finalist, Professor Ebendorff-Heidepriem is based at the University of Adelaide’s Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing and boasts decades of leadership in developing new forms of optical glass and fibres.

Finalist, 2024 Eureka Prize for Leadership in Science, Professor Mark Hutchinson is an innovative science leader who has advanced entrepreneurship, creating startups and influencing government policy, with generational impact on Australia’s science and technology landscape.

Finalist, 2023 Macquarie University Eureka Prize for Outstanding Early Career Researcher, Dr Jiawen Li invented a microendoscope as thin as a strand of hair and powerful enough to accurately detect signs of heart disease, a leading cause of death worldwide.

2023 South Australian Scientist of the Year Finalist, Professor Dholakia uses light in many ways to visualise and understand the world around us.

2022 South Australian Scientist of the Year Finalist, Professor Andre Luiten FTSE FAIP GAICD is an internationally distinguished innovator and scientist who is passionate about precision measurement.

Professor Mark Hutchinson, President at Science & Technology Australia and Director of CNBP Science, addresses the National Press Club on why Australia needs to ‘level up’ on research commercialisation – and how to do it.

On World Heart Day (29th September 2021), Australian Health Journal's People in Health Care series, released a segment on Dr Jiawen Li.

Adelaide University Professor Nigel Spooner is currently researching and developing world-leading techniques to assist future mining exploration using the study of light fluorescence.