23 Facts About Keith Nugent

Keith Alexander Nugent AO FAA was born on 28 June 1959 and is an Australian physicist.

Keith Nugent is Emeritus Professor of Physics at the Australian National University in Canberra.

Keith Nugent was the Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University from January 2019 to January 2024.

Keith Nugent received a first-class honours degree from the University of Adelaide and his PhD from the ANU.

The family moved again to country NSW and Keith Nugent completed his schooling at Batlow Central School.

When he was in year 11, Keith Nugent knew he wanted to further pursue mathematics and physics, and, since it was not available at Batlow Central School, taught himself the highest level maths so he could go on to study physics at university.

Keith Nugent did a BSc in Physics and Theoretical Physics at ANU, Honours in Physics at University of Adelaide, then returned to the ANU to do a PhD in Laser Physics.

Keith Nugent was appointed Professor at the University of Melbourne when he was 34, was elected to the Australian Academy of Science at 41 and was twice honoured as an Australian Research Council Federation Fellow.

In 1989, Nugent collaborated with physicist Stephen W Wilkins to develop a form of X-ray optics known as lobster-eye optics.

Keith Nugent became interested in how to measure optical phase without using interferometry.

Keith Nugent was the founding researcher of microscopy company IATIA, created to commercialise the work of himself and his two former PhD students, David Paganin and Anton Barty, in quantitative phase imaging.

From 2005, Keith Nugent was a Member of the Board of Directors and Chair of IATIA's Audit Committee.

Keith Nugent traded for 10 years but fell foul of the global financial crisis in 2010.

Dr Eroia Barone-Keith Nugent, was the recipient of the 2009 Victorian State Impact Grant, Schools First Award at Santa Maria College, Northcote.

Keith Nugent had previously served as a member of its national scientific advisory board and its board of directors.

Keith Nugent was Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President at La Trobe University from January 2013 to December 2018.

Keith Nugent has been a member of the ARC Expert Advisory Committee for Physics, Chemistry and Geosciences, and the international scientific advisory board of Elettra Sincotrone Trieste, the National Synchrotron Radiation Research Centre in Taiwan, and the European X-ray Free Electron Laser based in Hamburg.

Keith Nugent was a chief investigator for the ARC Centre for Advanced Molecular Imaging.

Keith Nugent is a board member at National Computational Infrastructure, the Advisory Committee on Policy Matters, Australian Academy of Science and the National Centre for Indigenous Genomics.

Keith Nugent was appointed Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University in 2019 and remained in the role until January 2024.

Keith Nugent is the non-executive director of Significant Early Venture Capital and WearOptimo.

Keith Nugent is the alternate director for VC at ANU Connect Ventures, and director at ANU Enterprise.

Keith Nugent met his wife Dr Eroia Barone-Keith Nugent at the ANU in 1981.