Distinguished Professor David Moss has made seminal contributions to photonics and optics, particularly his work with microcombs – devices that can link the electronic and optical frequency regimes. 

He reported the first integrated microcomb in 2010, a game-changing advance with potential applications across spectroscopy, communications and optical clocks, among many fields. This breakthrough, addressing energy and bandwidth bottlenecks for on-chip and chip-to-chip communications, earned him the 2011 Eureka Science Prize for Innovation in Computer Science. 

He has set two world records: the fastest data transmission down an optical fibre from a single chip, and a world-record high-speed optical neural network. He has also pioneered quantum optical microcombs, demonstrating high dimensional and multiphoton entangled states on a chip.

He is a Life Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and a Fellow of both Optica and the International Society for Photonics (SPIE). He is director of Swinburne’s Optical Sciences Centre, deputy director of the ARC Centre of Excellence COMBS and chairman of the Australian public company Eden BDM Pty. Ltd.

Dist. Prof. David Moss has a 35-year career in academia, government labs, with 7 years in industry. In 2023 he was nominated top Australian research field leader in optics by The Australian. He has made seminal contributions to CMOS photonic chips for nonlinear optics, reporting the first integrated microresonator optical frequency comb in 2010, and pioneering their application to microwave photonics, neuromorphic processing, communications, and quantum sources, achieving world-record speed neural networks. He is Director of Swinburne’s Optical Sciences Centre, Deputy Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence COMBS and Chairman of the Australian public company Eden BDM Pty. Ltd..