Ross Young

Associate Professor Ross Young

Associate Professor

School of Physics, Chemistry and Earth Sciences

Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology

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


  • Appointments

    Date Position Institution name
    2016 - ongoing Associate Professor University of Adelaide
    2012 - 2016 ARC Future Fellow University of Adelaide
    2010 - 2015 Lecturer University of Adelaide
    2007 - 2009 Eugene P. Wigner Postdoctoral Fellow Argonne National Laboratory
    2004 - 2007 Postdoctoral Fellow Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
  • Awards and Achievements

    Date Type Title Institution Name Country Amount
    2020 Research Award Order of Merit, Mid-Career Research Excellence University of Adelaide Australia -
    2012 Fellowship ARC Future Fellowship University of Adelaide Australia $686k
  • Education

    Date Institution name Country Title
    2001 - 2004 University of Adelaide Australia PhD

 

Recent grants and awards
Year Project Investigators Funding scheme Amount
2022–2024 Imaging the spatial distribution of forces that bind quarks to a proton R Young, J Zanotti ARC Discovery Project $395,000
2021–2022 Emergent phenomena revealed in subatomic matter W Kamleh, D Leinweber, R Young, J Zanotti Pawsey Centre for Extreme scale Readiness (PaCER) $123,785
2019–2021 Supercomputing the tomography of the proton J Zanotti, R Young ARC Discovery Project $396,000
2014–2016

Elucidating the role of quantum electrodynamics in hadron properties

R Young, J Zanotti, D Leinweber ARC Discovery Project $375,000
2012–2016

Interplay of the forces of nature: electroweak and strong interactions

R Young ARC Future Fellowship $685,928
2011–2017 ARC Centre of Excellence for particle physics at the terascale G Taylor, T Ghergetta, A Thomas, K Varvell, B Yabsley, R Volkas, C Balazs, N Bell, E Barberio, M Sevior, A Williams, R Young, A Limosani ARC Centre of Excellence $25,200,000
2011–2013 Excitation spectra of quantum chromodynamics R Young, D Leinweber ARC Discovery Project $300,000

 

    Current teaching:

    • Quantum Field Theory (2010-2012,2014-present)
    • Gauge Field Theories (2010-2012,2017-present)
    • Classical Physics II (2017-present)
    • Principles & Practices of Research I: Introduction to Scientific Programming (2017-present)
    • Physics for Life & Earth Sciences I (2017-present)

    Previous courses:

    • Physics IIA: Introductory Quantum Mechanics (2011-2013)
    • Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

      Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
      2024 Co-Supervisor Hadronic structure of the pion from Lattice QCD Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Jordan McKee
      2024 Principal Supervisor Constraining Beyond Standard Model Physics with Lattice QCD Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Ian Van Schalkwyk
      2024 Co-Supervisor Radiative Corrections to Neutron Decay via Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Mr Joshua Charles Perks
      2023 Co-Supervisor Generalised Parton Distributions Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Matthew Rumley
      2023 Principal Supervisor Inelastic Structure Functions from Lattice QCD Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Mr Thomas Gerard Schar
      2023 Co-Supervisor Searching for beyond the Standard Model physics at the Belle II experiment through the application of machine learning algorithms Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Cameron Cooper Harris
      2022 Co-Supervisor Transverse Properties of Baryons Using Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Joshua Alexander Crawford
      2022 Co-Supervisor Algorithmic aspects of lattice QCD for nuclear and particle physics Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Nabil Humphrey
      2021 Co-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
      2019 Principal Supervisor Hadron structure from lattice QCD Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Tomas Liam Howson
      2019 Co-Supervisor Searching for Rare Meson Decays at Belle II Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Shanette Anne De La Motte
    • Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

      Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
      2020 - 2023 Principal Supervisor The Compton Amplitude from the Lattice Feynman-Hellmann Method Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Alec Hannaford Gunn
      2020 - 2022 Co-Supervisor Novel Algorithms for Computing Nuclear Correlation Functions in Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Mr Nabil Humphrey
      2019 - 2023 Co-Supervisor Baryon Structure Using the Feynman-Hellmann Theorem in Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Mischa Batelaan
      2019 - 2022 Principal Supervisor Broken flavour-symmetry induced state mixing in lattice QCD+QED Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Zeno Rafael Kordov
      2018 - 2020 Co-Supervisor Direct CP Violation in B Meson Decays Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Mr Liam Christopher Hockley
      2018 - 2020 Principal Supervisor Generalised Parton Distributions from Lattice Feynman-Hellman Techniques Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Mr Alec Hannaford Gunn
      2016 - 2020 Co-Supervisor Hadron Structure Using Feynman–Hellmann Theorem Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Kim Yves Somfleth
      2016 - 2020 Co-Supervisor Transverse Properties of Baryons using Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Jacob Maddox Bickerton
      2015 - 2019 Principal 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 - 2018 Principal Supervisor Hadron Structure and the Feynman-Hellmann Theorem in Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Alexander John Chambers
      2014 - 2019 Principal 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 Principal Supervisor Improved Determination of Hadron Matrix Elements using the Variational Method Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Jack Dragos
      2012 - 2015 Co-Supervisor Strangeness and Charge Symmetry Violation in Nucleon Structure Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Phiala Elisabeth Shanahan
      2011 - 2013 Co-Supervisor Resonance in a Finite Volume in Quantum Chromodynamics Master of Science Master Full Time Mr Anthony Chi-Pin Hsu
      2011 - 2015 Co-Supervisor Hadrons and Quarks in Dense Matter: From Nuclear Matter to Neutron Stars Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Daniel Leslie Whittenbury
      2011 - 2016 Co-Supervisor PROPERTIES OF HADRONS FROM A NON-PERTURBATIVE APPROACH Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Manuel Eduardo Carrillo Serrano
      2011 - 2016 Co-Supervisor Supersymmetric Dark Matter in the NMSSM and E6SSM Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Sophie Underwood
      2011 - 2016 Co-Supervisor Nonperturbative Aspects of Kaon Structure Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Parada Tobel Paraduan Hutauruk
      2011 - 2014 Co-Supervisor Hadron Structure in Electroweak Precision Measurements Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Nathan Luke Hall
      2010 - 2013 Co-Supervisor Chiral-Scale Perturbation Theory About an Infrared Fixed Point Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Lewis Tunstall
      2010 - 2011 Co-Supervisor Chiral Effective Field Theory Beyond the Power-Counting Regime Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Jonathan Hall
      2010 - 2011 Co-Supervisor Modelling the Nucleon Axial Form Factor in a Finite Volume Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Mr Nathan Luke Hall
      2010 - 2014 Co-Supervisor Behaviour of Quantum Chromodynamics Near an Infrared Fixed Point Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Galib Omar M Souadi
    • Position: Associate Professor
    • Phone: 83133542
    • Email: ross.young@adelaide.edu.au
    • Fax: 83134380
    • Campus: North Terrace
    • Building: Physics, floor First Floor
    • Room: 124
    • Org Unit: Physics

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