Professor Igor Bray
- Position
- Centre Deputy Research Director, Australian Professorial Fellow
- Institution
- Curtin University
- Expertise
- Interactions involving electrons, positrons, photons and atoms
- Email
- I.Bray@curtin.edu.au
- Research in the Centre
- Igor Bray received his PhD from the Department of Mathematical Physics at the University of Adelaide in 1986 for the thesis entitled "Gravitational lens effect of galaxies and black holes". He moved to Flinders University in 1985 to work under the direction of Prof. I. E. McCarthy in the field of electron-atom scattering theory. In the early 1990s he teamed up with Andris Stelbovics to develop a new computational method known as the "Convergent
Close-Coupling" theory. This has been recognised with the 1999 award of the Fellowship of the American Physical Society with the citation - "For the codevelopment of the Convergent Close-Coupling theory which has unified the theoretical treatment of electron-atom collisions at all energies, for both excitation and ionization processes." Presently, his interests lie in extending the method to more complicated targets and projectiles. Specifically, in the Centre he is coordinating theoretical research involving antimatter-matter collisions such as positron and antiproton scattering with atoms.
