Rate My Professor Niels Quack

Quack's research focuses on micro- and nanosystems engineering, including micro- and nanofabrication, photonic microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), and diamond photonics, with applications in telecommunications, quantum information processing, and artificial intelligence. He has led projects such as developing technology for more efficient fibre-optical telecommunications by integrating optics and microsystems engineering and nano-electromechanical quantum interfaces. Key publications include "Integrated photonic devices in single crystal diamond" (Journal of Physics: Photonics, 2020), "Non-contact polishing of single crystal diamond by ion beam etching" (Diamond and Related Materials, 2019), "High-quality single crystal diamond diffraction gratings fabricated by crystallographic etching" (Optics Express, 2019), "MEMS for Photonic Integrated Circuits" (IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 2020), "Integrated silicon photonic MEMS" (Microsystems & Nanoengineering, 2023), and "Large-scale broadband digital silicon photonic switches with vertical adiabatic couplers" (Optica, 2016). With over 130 research works and more than 3,000 citations, his work has significant impact in the field. Awards include the Outstanding Paper Award from Nature Microsystems & Nanoengineering (2020), Supervisor of the Year from the Sydney University Postgraduate Representative Association (2023), the University of Sydney SOAR Prize (2023), Top 100 Innovators in Photonics from ElectroOptics (2024), and an ARC Linkage Infrastructure grant (2024).