Dr Robert Robinson

Head of The Bragg Institute

Phone +61 (0)2 9717 9204
Email Robert.Robinson@ansto.gov.au

Dr Rob Robinson received a PhD in experimental physics from Cambridge University in 1982. He then moved to Los Alamos National Laboratory in the United States to carry out postdoctoral research, and was a staff member there between 1985 and 1999. He has also spent time as a visiting scientist at the Institut Laue-Langevin (1984) the Japanese National Laboratory for High-Energy Physics (1992), and the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (1994). He has been a fellow of the American Physical Society since 1998 In December 1999 he moved to ANSTO to become leader of the Neutron Scattering and Synchrotron Radiation Group and he is also an Adjunct Professor in both the School of Physics at the University of New South Wales and the Faculty of Science at Sydney University and a fellow of the Australian Institute of Physics.  He has been Leader of the Bragg Institute, since its inception in December 2002.  Rob's main research activities have been in condensed-matter physics. His current research interests include strongly correlated f-electron systems magnetism in uranium intermetallics, molecular magnets, the dynamics of amorphous materials and neutron-scattering instrumentation.

Selected Recent Papers

D. H. Yu, M. R. Fitzsimmons, E. P. Gilbert, R. C. Woodward, S. H. Kilcoyne, and R. A. Robinson, Neutron depolarization studies of Pd-Ni-Fe-P alloy, Physica B, 397(1-2), 30-32 (2007).

R. A. Robinson, D. J. Goossens, M. S. Torikachvili, K. Kakurai and H. Okumura, A Quantum Multi-Critical Point in CeCu_6-xAu_x, Physica B 385-386, 38-40 (2006).

"he Instrument Suite for OPAL, the Australian Replacement Research Reactor: - Lessons from and for the Spallation Sources" R. A. Robinson, in Proceedings of ICANS-XVII, Santa Fe, NM, USA, 25-29 April 2005, Los Alamos Report LA-UR-06-3904, Vol. III, pp 1002-1008 (2006).

"Magnetic structures in UCuSn", S. El-Khatib, A. Llobet, A. Purwanto, R. A. Robinson, S. H. Lee, J. W. Lynn, S. Chang, and H. Nakotte, J. Appl. Phys. 9, 704 (2006).

"The Antiferromagnetic Structure of BaPrO₃", D. J. Goossens, R. A. Robinson and M. T. F. Telling, Physica B 352, 105-110 (2004).

"The Australian Replacement Research Reactor and the Bragg Institute", R. A. Robinson and S. J. Kennedy, Neutron News 14, 14-18 (2003).

"Neutron Scattering at Australia's Replacement Research Reactor", R. A. Robinson and S. J. Kennedy, Physica B 311, 44-49 (2002).

"A Low-Temperature Study of the Crystal Structure of Mn₁₂ Acetate",  P. A. Langan, R. A. Robinson, P. J. Brown, D. N. Argyriou, D. N. Hendrickson and G. Christou, Acta Cryst. C 57, 909-910 (2001).

"Neutron Scattering at Australia's Replacement Research Reactor", S. J. Kennedy, R. A. Robinson and B. A. Hunter, J. Phys. Soc. Japan 70, Suppl. A 567-570 (2001).

"Neutron Scattering from Heavy Fermions", R. A. Robinson, in Magnetism in Heavy Fermion Systems, ed. H.B. Radousky (World Scientific, Singapore, 2000), Chapter 4, p. 197-282.

"Internal Magnetic Structure of Mn₁₂ Acetate by Polarized Neutron Diffraction", R. A. Robinson, P. J. Brown, D. N. Argyriou, D. N. Hendrickson and S. M. J. Aubin, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 12, 2805-2810 (2000).

"Prospects for Performing Neutron Scattering in Intense Pulsed Magnetic Fields", R. A. Robinson, J. Appl. Phys. 87, 5437-5442 (2000).

"Crystal-Field Spectrum and Linewidths in the Heavy-Fermion System PrInAg₂", T. M. Kelley, W. P. Beyermann, R. A. Robinson, F. Trouw, P. C. Canfield and H. Nakotte, Phys. Rev. B 61, 1831-1835 (2000).