 Dr
Bob Oreb
Chief Operating Officer
"leading modern electro-optics"
Dr Bob Oreb is an electrical engineer and optical scientist
who has advanced CSIRO’s classical optics into modern electro-optics.
Current activities
Dr Bob (Bozenko) Oreb is Project Leader and Chief Operating Officer
at CSIRO's Australian Centre for Precision Optics. His current
research interest is the development and application of precision
optical metrology based on phase-shifting interferometry and other
techniques.
Background
Dr Oreb's previous and associated research and development include:
- digital video data acquisition and processing
- holographic non-destructive testing
- electronic speckle pattern interferometry
- projected fringe and light sectioning profilometry
- photometric stereo.
In 2001, Dr Oreb, and colleague Dr Roger Netterfield, established
CSIRO’s Australian Centre for Precision Optics (ACPO).
Building on more than fifty years of research, ACPO solves challenging
optical problems requiring high level combinations of:
- optical fabrication
- coating
- metrology
- instrumentation.
ACPO has a significant international profile, counting NASA’s
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, CalTech’s Laser Interferometer
Gravity Wave Observatory (LIGO) and Canon Inc. among its clients.
Dr Oreb developed accurate and objective non-contact dimensional
metrology techniques which fed into the delivery of world class
instrumentation such as:
- the Optical Surface Profiler (OSP130), developed for the
Royal Australian Mint, it is now used internationally and features
at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney
- a high-wall scanner/profiler for coal mining
- Roadcrack, developed for the RTA to measure road distress
- tunable narrow band spectral filters used in solar astronomy.
His techniques have also been used for:
- designing novel soundboards for acoustic guitars
- displacement, strain and stress analysis in the power generation,
defence and aerospace industries
- assessing defects on automotive components
- 3-D topographic medical imaging
- certifying optics for LIGO
- ultra-precise optics for NASA’s Space Interferometer
Mission (SIM).
He has achieved this through pioneering research in phase-shifting
interferometry and underpinning research in length, flatness and
roundness metrology over many years as a scientist in Australia’s
National Measurement Laboratory.
Academic qualifications
Dr Oreb has a Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Engineering
with first class Honours and was awarded a PhD in electronics
and communications engineering from The University of Sydney,
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Achievements
Dr Oreb’s scientific achievements are confirmed in the
awards he had received, such as:
- 2005 Engineers Australia Excellence Award, finalist (Sydney
Division) in R&D and Innovation & Invention for precision
optics for SIM
- 1999 Engineers Australia Excellence Award, R&D (National
and Sydney Division) for Roadcrack
- 1999 CSIRO Medal (National and Divisional) for Roadcrack
- 1993 Australian Institute for Non-Destructive Testing ETRS
Award for best research publication
- 1991 Engineers Australia R&D Excellence award (Canberra
Division) for OSP130
On three occasions he has been invited to the National Research
Laboratory of Metrology in Japan.
He was on the Council of the Australian Optical Society for eight
years and has been associate editor of their newsletter. |
