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| Name: |
Dr Stephen Hughes |
| Position: |
Lecturer |
| Qualifications: |
BSc, MSc, PhD |
| Organisational Area: |
School of Physical & Chemical Sciences |
| Teaching Discipline: |
Physics |
| Research Program: |
Applied Optics |
| Phone: |
+61 7 3138 2327 |
| Fax: |
+61 7 3138 1521 |
| Email: |
sw.hughes@qut.edu.au |
| Postal Address: |
School of Physical & Chemical Sciences, QUT, GPO Box 2434, Brisbane Qld 4001 |
Teaching Areas
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Areas of Expertise
- Astronomy
- Medical physics
- Ultrasound
- Microwave heating
- Physics Education
[Further expertise and media contact]
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Professional Associations
- Member of the International Astronomical Union
- Member of the Astronomical Society of Australia
- Member of the Australian College of Physical Scientists and Engineers in Medicine
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Selected Research Projects
- Developing educational physics experiments
- Stellar photometry
- Fireballs
- Meteor impacts on the Moon
- Flare stars
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Selected Publications
- Hughes SW, Measuring liquid density using Archimedes' principle. Physics Education, 41:445-447, 2006.
- Hughes SW, Measuring the orbital period of the moon using a digital camera. Physics Education, 41: 144-150, 2006.
- Hughes SW, Archimedes revisited: a faster, better, cheaper method of accurately measuring the volume of small objects. Physics Education, 40: 468-474, 2005.
- Hughes SW, Wright R, Barry M, Virtual reconstruction and morphological analysis of the cranium of an ancient Egyptian mummy, Australas. Phys. Sci. Eng. Med. 28:122-127, 2005.
- Hughes SW, Medical ultrasound imaging, Physics Education, 36:468-475, 2001.
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Current Postgraduate Students
| Name |
Project |
| Laxman Samtani |
Possibilities for technology transfer from astronomy to medicine |
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