John Canning's Biography

John Canning, Professor, University of Sydney

Prof. John Canning is an Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow and Professor at the University of Sydney, SPIE Fellow and runs the interdisciplinary Photonics Laboratories (iPL) within the School of Chemistry. He is also Conjoint Professor at the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, University of NSW, helping to establish the national fibre facility (NFF) based on expertise generated by his structured fibre activities at the former OFTC/Australian Photonics CRC and Centaurus Technologies. He has cofounded four companies and helped develop the technology of several others. He has been consultant for a number of companies and individuals over the years, in both commercialisation and intellectual property generation and has worked overseas as a visiting professor, including Otto Monsted Professor Danish technical University, Denmark (2004), Villum Kann Rasmussen Professor at iNANO, Aarhus University, Denmark (2007), Science without Borders Professor at UTFPR, Brazil (2014) developing a new joint sensor program aimed at developing microfluidic analysis techniques for petroleum analysis, and a Program 111 Professor at UESTC, Chengdu, China (2014) working on a joint program exploring fundamental aspects that may lead to new sensors. He is currently an Expert Member of the University of Sydney’s Latin Regional Advisory Committee and a regular committee member of key conferences in photonics and sensing. He has over 600 journal and conference papers and has lodged more than 30 patents.