Rate My Professor Martijn de Sterke

Professor Martijn de Sterke is a Professor in the School of Physics, Faculty of Science, at the University of Sydney, and is affiliated with the Institute of Photonics and Optical Science. He earned his MEng in Applied Physics from the University of Delft, Netherlands, in 1982, and his PhD in Optics from the University of Rochester, USA, between 1983 and 1987. After completing postdoctoral research at the University of Toronto from 1988 to 1990, he joined the University of Sydney in 1991, progressing to a full professorship. Previously, he served as Associate Dean for Research in the Faculty of Science. His research specializes in photonics and optics, encompassing nonlinear optics, guided wave optics, periodic media, random media, and aspects of condensed matter physics. Professor de Sterke has authored over 300 journal papers, accumulating more than 21,000 citations according to Google Scholar. Key publications include 'Multipole method for microstructured optical fibers. I. Formulation' (2002, Optics Letters), 'Bragg grating solitons' (1996, Physical Review E), 'A 90-nm-thick graphene metamaterial for strong and extremely broadband absorption of unpolarized light' (2019, Nature Communications), 'Multipole method for microstructured optical fibers II: implementation and results' (2002), and 'Microstructured polymer optical fibre' (2001).