Boris Kuhlmey is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow with the School of Physics, The University of Sydney. After undergraduate studies at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, and a masters degree from the Insitut d’Optique (Paris-Sud, Orsay, France) he was awarded a PhD jointly by the Université Aix Marseille III, France, and the School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia, in 2003. During his PhD, he co-developed the multipole method for photonic crystal fibres (PCFs).  In 2003 he joined the ARC Centre for Ultrahigh-bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS) at the University of Sydney, to work on modelling of photonic crystal fibres.  In 2006 he was awarded an ARC fellowship for the theoretically study of solid core photonic bandgap fibres. In 2008, he obtained jointly with Prof. Eggleton a further ARC Discovery Project grant to fund experimental and numerical research into photonic bandgap fibre-based sensors. His research programme now spans theoretical, numerical as well as experimental research in photonic crystal fibres for sensing and non-linear applications, plasmonics, metamaterials and biophotonics.

Boris is the author of the “CUDOS MOF Utilities,” the first free software dedicated to the simulation of PCFs, and co-authored the book “Foundations of Photonic Crystal Fibres.” He has authored and co-authored over 30 publications in refereed journals, has served as invited editor for Physica B and as secretary and public officer for the international ETOPIM society (Electrical, Transport and Optical Properties of Inhomogeneous Media). He has served on organization committees for several national and international conferences and workshops, including ETOPIM 7 (Sydney, 2006) and Photonic Crystals: Fundamentals to Devices (Sydney 2005), and was programme chair and co-chair for several local workshops and tutorial workshops.