Rate My Professor Peter Jacobson

Dr Peter Jacobson serves as Senior Lecturer in Condensed Matter Physics in the School of Mathematics and Physics at the University of Queensland, having joined the institution in June 2019, where he heads the SPMQT Lab focused on scanning probe microscopy for quantum technologies. He earned his PhD from Tulane University in New Orleans, USA, in 2012, followed by research positions at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, Germany, and the University of Graz in Austria. His research centers on materials for quantum technology and scanning probe microscopy (STM/AFM), including advancements in superconducting germanium compatible with industry methods, terahertz nanospectroscopy of plasmon polaritons for doping evaluation in quantum devices, and surface engineering for superconducting quantum circuits. Jacobson has secured major funding through ARC projects, such as the Discovery Project on atomic-scale engineering of bioactive organic molecules on surfaces (2024-2027) and the Linkage Project on surface and interface engineering for superconducting quantum circuits (2023-2026), as well as contributions to the Queensland Quantum Decarbonisation Alliance and Victorian Facility for Atom-Scale Quantum Microscopy.