Dr Bob Aldus
Phone +61 (0)2 9717 3149
Email roberta@ansto.gov.au
Bob completed his PhD in neutron scattering from rare-earth pyrochlore magnets in March 2010 under the supervision of Steve Bramwell at University College London. His PhD focused on the spin-ice state in holmium titanate, stuffed holmium titanate and neodymium zirconate. Techniques used included polarized neutron diffraction and inelastic neutron scattering at the Institut Laue Langevin (Grenoble), the ISIS spallation source (nr. Oxford) and the Paul Scherrer Institute (Nr. Zurich). Bob then did one year as a PhD + honorary research associate in the same group, where he began bulk measurements on the spin-ice materials both at University College London, and the low-temperature-physics lab at the University of Lancaster. Bob joined ANSTO in July 2011 to work on a project under the joint supervision of Paolo Imperia in the Bragg institute, and Greg Lumpkin at ANSTO's Institute of Materials Engineering. The project is aimed at observing changes in magnetic properties of metals and oxides of use in the construction of electricity-generation facilities.