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Dr Peter Godfrey |
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Reader and Director for the Centre for High Resolution
Spectroscopy and Opto-Electronic Technology |
| BSc(Hons), PhD(Monash) |
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23S/G34A |
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+61 3 9905 4593 |
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+61 3 9905 4597 |
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peter.godfrey@sci.monash.edu.au |
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Professional Associations
MRACI
Teaching Commitments
Chemistry units for engineering students
Research Areas
- microwave spectroscopy
- molecular astrophysics
- radio astronomy
- quantum chemistry
- structural studies of reactive transient species and biomolecules
- scientific instrument development
Current research group
Active collaborations with local and external high-resolution spectroscopists and radio astronomers
Research outcomes
- 139 refereed publications
- very strong support from ARC over 25 years
- Codiscovery of several interstellar molecules via combined laboratory spectroscopy and radio
astronomy
- First gas-phase structural studies of amino acids, nucleic acid bases and neurotransmitters
- Codiscovery of the first known occurrence of spontaneous symmetry-breaking in carbon compounds
- Codiscovery of a new oxide of carbon
- International collaborations in radio astronomy and theoretical astrophysics
- Guest observer at radio telescopes in Australia, U.S.A. and Sweden
- Australian, U.S.A. and European patents for novel analytical instrument
- Referee for J. Molec. Struct, J. Molec. Spectrosc., J.AmChem. Soc.
- Member of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute, member of the International Astronomical
Union, and the American Physical Society
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