Associate Professor Jean-Philippe Tetienne
Associate Professor
Details
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Department: School of Science
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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jean-philippe.tetienne@rmit.edu.au
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
About
Jean-Philippe Tetienne is an experimental physicist specialising in various aspects of optical physics and microscopy, condensed matter physics, and quantum technologies. He is the former recipient of an ARC Future Fellowship (2021-25) and an ARC DECRA fellowship (2017-19).
Key current qualifications and roles:
- Lead Chief Investigator of an ARC Discovery Project (2025-27) aiming to develop two-dimensional quantum sensors
- Lead RMIT investigator on a $3m industry project (2025-2027) aiming to develop quantum radiofrequency receivers
- Associate Investigator of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems (2020-2026)
- HDR Coordinator for the Department of Physics
Research interests:
- Explorations of the magneto-optical properties of fluorescent solid and molecular nanomaterials
- Development of precision sensing and microscopy techniques based on optical quantum spins embedded in solids
- Applications of quantum magnetic imaging techniques for the advanced characterisation of magnetic materials and electronic devices
- See group website for more details
Research fields
- 510805 Quantum technologies
- 510401 Condensed matter characterisation technique development
- 510404 Electronic and magnetic properties of condensed matter; superconductivity
Academic positions
- Associate Professor
- RMIT University
- Melbourne, Australia
- 1 Jan 2025 – Present
- Senior Research Fellow
- RMIT University
- Melbourne, Australia
- Jul 2021 – 31 Dec 2024
- Research Fellow
- University of Melbourne
- Melbourne, Australia
- Jan 2015 – Jun 2021
Supervisor projects
- Spin defects in 2D materials for nanoscale quantum sensing
- 14 Oct 2025
- Creation and characterisation of near-infrared colours centres in diamond
- 15 May 2025
- Solid-state radiofrequency-optical quantum transducers
- 31 Jan 2025
- Microdiamond-embedded Silk: A Hybrid Platform for Temperature Monitoring in Wounds
- 15 Feb 2024
- A nanodiamond voltage sensor: towards real-time long-term neuronal sensing
- 10 Aug 2022
- Quantum Sensors for Solar Cell Applications
- 5 Jul 2022
- A nanodiamond voltage sensor: towards real-time long-term neuronal sensing
- 8 Mar 2022
- Photophysics and Applications of Spin Defects in Hexagonal Boron Nitride
- 3 Dec 2021
Research interests
Quantum Sensing, Optics, Condensed Matter Physics, Magnetism
