Hans-Albert Bachor AM (born December 1952) is a German-born Australian research physicist.

He was chairperson of the National Youth Science Forum[1] in Australia, and is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Quantum Science,[2] Research School of Physics[3] at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.

He studied physics in Hannover, Germany, where he received his diploma and doctorate, supervised by Prof. Dr. Manfred Kock.

Bachor was Head of the Department of Physics at the Australian National University in the late 1990s, and took a leading role in teaching and inspiring undergraduate students.

He has written the widely used and cited textbook " A guide to experiments in quantum Optics", with Prof. Timothy Ralph.