James Zanotti

Professor James Zanotti

Professor/Reader

School of Physics, Chemistry and Earth Sciences

Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.


Recent research highlights:

  • Appointments

    Date Position Institution name
    2024 - ongoing Professsor University of Adelaide
    2018 - 2023 Associate Professor University of Adelaide
    2015 - 2017 Senior Lecturer University of Adelaide
    2011 - 2015 ARC Future Fellow University of Adelaide
    2008 - 2011 STFC Advanced Fellow University of Edinburgh
    2005 - 2008 Postdoctoral fellow University of Edinburgh
    2003 - 2005 Postdoctoral Research Associate Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron
  • Education

    Date Institution name Country Title
    University of Adelaide Australia PhD
  • Research Interests

Recent grants:

  • ARC Discovery Project (2024-2026), "Unravelling the neutron lifetime puzzle with lattice quantum chromodynamics", $432k
  • Defence Science Partnership Research Agreement (2022-2024), "Artificially-intelligent feature mining for cyber defence: automated event detection and state inference of captured network data"
  • ARC Discovery Project (2022-2024), "Imaging the spatial distribution of forces that bind quarks to a proton", $395k
  • ARC LIEF (2019-2021), "Sustaining and strengthening merit-based access to National Computational Infrastructure", $4.3M
  • ARC Discovery Project (2019-2021), "Supercomputing the tomography of the proton", $396k
  • ARC LIEF (2016-2018), "Maintaining and enhancing merit-based access to the NCI National Facility ", $3.0M
  • ARC Discovery Project (2014-2016), "Elucidating the role of quantum electrodynamics in hadron properties", $375k
  • ARC Future Fellowship (2011 - 2015), "The Standard Model and Beyond on Supercomputers", $694k

Recent supercomputing allocations:

In the area of Lattice QCD, allocations of supercomputing time are just as important as funding. Allocations of supercomputing time over the past 5 years include:

  • Distributed Research Utilising Advanced Computing (DiRAC), UK >300m cpu-hrs
  • National Computing Merit Allocation Scheme, NCI/Pawsey, Australia >80m SUs
  • Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Jülich, Germany >80M cpu-hrs
  • North German Supercomputing Alliance (HLRN), Berlin/Hannover/Göttingen, Germany >150m cpu-hrs

Current teaching:

  • Advanced Dynamics and Relativity III (2024-present)
  • Quantum Field Theory (2023-present)
  • Advanced Electrodynamics (2016-present)

Previous courses:

  • Physics IIA/QMII: Introductory Quantum Mechanics (2016-2023)
  • Physics IE: Thermal Physics (2023)
  • Physical Aspects of Nature: Mechanics (2017-2022)
  • Physics III: Quantum Mechanics (2016-2017, 2020-2021)
  • Electromagnetism II: Electromagnetism (2019)
  • Physics for Life & Earth Sciences B: Waves & Modern Physics (2017-2018)
  • Physics III: Electromagnetism (2014-2015)
  • Computational Physics III (2012-2013)
  • Relativistic Quantum Mechanics & Particle Physics: Particle Physics (2012-2013)
  • Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

    Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
    2024 Principal Supervisor Hadronic structure of the pion from Lattice QCD Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Jordan McKee
    2024 Co-Supervisor Constraining Beyond Standard Model Physics with Lattice QCD Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Ian Van Schalkwyk
    2024 Principal Supervisor Radiative Corrections to Neutron Decay via Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Mr Joshua Charles Perks
    2023 Co-Supervisor Inelastic Structure Functions from Lattice QCD Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Mr Thomas Gerard Schar
    2022 Principal Supervisor Transverse Properties of Baryons Using Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Joshua Alexander Crawford
    2022 Principal Supervisor Algorithmic aspects of lattice QCD for nuclear and particle physics Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Nabil Humphrey
    2021 Principal Supervisor Constraining physics beyond the standard model through precision nucleon matrix element calculations in lattice QCD Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Rose Eden Smail
  • Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

    Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
    2020 - 2022 Principal Supervisor Novel Algorithms for Computing Nuclear Correlation Functions in Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Mr Nabil Humphrey
    2020 - 2023 Co-Supervisor The Compton Amplitude from the Lattice Feynman-Hellmann Method Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Alec Hannaford Gunn
    2019 - 2022 Co-Supervisor Broken flavour-symmetry induced state mixing in lattice QCD+QED Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Zeno Rafael Kordov
    2019 - 2023 Principal Supervisor Baryon Structure Using the Feynman-Hellmann Theorem in Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Mischa Batelaan
    2019 - 2024 Co-Supervisor Hadronic Momentum Fractions: Calculation and Renormalisation from the Feynman-Hellmann Method in Lattice QCD Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Tomas Liam Howson
    2018 - 2020 Co-Supervisor Generalised Parton Distributions from Lattice Feynman-Hellman Techniques Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Mr Alec Hannaford Gunn
    2017 - 2021 Co-Supervisor QED+QCD Corrections to the Anomalous Magnetic Moment of the Muon Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Alex Westin
    2016 - 2020 Principal Supervisor Transverse Properties of Baryons using Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Jacob Maddox Bickerton
    2016 - 2018 Co-Supervisor Structure Functions in Medium and the Polarized EMC Effect Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Mr Stephen Tronchin
    2016 - 2019 Co-Supervisor Electromagnetic Form Factors of Hadrons in the Space-Like Region Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Robert James Perry
    2016 - 2020 Principal Supervisor Hadron Structure Using Feynman–Hellmann Theorem Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Kim Yves Somfleth
    2015 - 2019 Co-Supervisor Isospin Violating Hadronic Mass Splittings using Lattice QCD+QED Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Zachary Koumi
    2015 - 2020 Co-Supervisor B-Physics in Lattice QCD and at Belle II Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Sophie Elizabeth Hollitt
    2014 - 2019 Co-Supervisor Optimisations to Hybrid Monte Carlo for Lattice QCD Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Taylor Ryan Haar
    2014 - 2018 Co-Supervisor Hadron Structure and the Feynman-Hellmann Theorem in Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Alexander John Chambers
    2014 - 2019 Co-Supervisor Charge Symmetry Violation in the Extraction of Strangeness Form Factors of the Nucleon Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Ali Abdullah M Alkathiri
    2013 - 2017 Co-Supervisor Improved Determination of Hadron Matrix Elements using the Variational Method Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Jack Dragos
  • Position: Professor/Reader
  • Phone: 83131595
  • Email: james.zanotti@adelaide.edu.au
  • Fax: 83134380
  • Campus: North Terrace
  • Building: Physics, floor First Floor
  • Room: 117
  • Org Unit: Physics

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