Benjamin John Eggleton, FAA FTSE FRSN, (born 6 November 1970)[1] is Pro Vice Chancellor (Research) at the University of Sydney.

In 1996, he joined Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies as a Postdoctoral Member of Staff in the Optical Physics Department under the supervision of Dr Richart E. Slusher.

[4] Eggleton returned to the University of Sydney in 2003 as a full Professor and ARC Federation Fellowship in the School of Physics.

In 2009 Eggleton established the Institute of Photonics and Optical Science (IPOS) at the University of Sydney and was the Director from 2009 to 2018.

[6] His research into new classes of nonlinear waveguides has created a new paradigm for photonic chip based ultrafast optical signal processing and his group holds various world records.

His journal papers have been cited 29,000 times according to Web of Science with an h-number of 86 (119 in Google Scholar) and has filed over 35 patents.