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Peter Barker studied BSc Physics at the University of Queensland in Australia and was awarded a PhD in Physics from the same university in 1996, working on applied laser spectroscopy. From 1997 to 2001, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate and Research Scientist Lecturer in the Applied Physics Group at the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department of Princeton University, focusing on an interdisciplinary project with Sandia National Laboratories and Lawrence Livermore, developing a new type of wind tunnel for accelerating gases to hypersonic speeds using lasers and electron beams. In 2001, he took a position as a Lecturer in the Physics Department at Heriot-Watt University in Scotland and became a Senior Lecturer in 2004. In October 2006, he joined the AMOPP group in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at University College London as a Reader and is currently an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow, having been promoted to Professor in October 2007.