Howard Wiseman

Professor Howard Wiseman obtained an Honours degree in physics (1991), and did his PhD on quantum measurement and feedback theory (1992-4), at the University of Queensland. He subsequently wrote the first comprehensive text on the subject, with his advisor Gerard Milburn, published by Cambridge University Press.

As a postdoc at the University of Auckland he established adaptive quantum measurements as a vital research field. Since returning to Australia his most influential work in new fields has been on quantum steering / the Einstein-Podolosky-Rosen paradox, weak measurements, experimental metaphysics, and quantum limits to coherence.

He has been at Griffith University since 1999 and was Director of the Centre for Quantum Dynamics there from 2007 to 2025. As of 2026 he has over 264 refereed journal papers, and an h-index of 74 (Scopus).

He has won the Bragg Medal of the Australian Institute of Physics (AIP) (1995), the Pawsey Medal of the Australian Academy of Science (2003), the Malcolm Macintosh Medal at the Prime Minister’s Science Awards (also 2003), and the Boas Medal of the AIP (2021). He was also the senior author on a paper that won the 2023 Paul Ehrenfest Award for Best Paper in Quantum Foundations, from the Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften.

In addition to his work in quantum physics, he has an "academic minor" in Arthurian studies, in which he has several peer-reviewed papers and a self-published a book of quasihistory entitled Then Arthur Fought. https://howardwiseman.me/ThenArthurFought.html