He completed his PhD in physics under Gerard J. Milburn at the University of Queensland in 1994, with a thesis entitled Quantum Trajectories and Feedback.
[5] After his PhD, Wiseman undertook a postdoc under Dan Walls at the University of Auckland.
He is currently a Physics Professor at Griffith University, where he is the Director of the Centre for Quantum Dynamics.
His early-career awards include the Bragg Medal[6] of the Australian Institute of Physics (AIP), the Pawsey Medal of the Australian Academy of Science and the Malcolm Macintosh Medal, one of the Prime Minister's Prizes for Science.
In 2022 Wiseman was awarded the AIP’s Walter Boas Medal for Excellence in Research, for elucidating fundamental limits arising from quantum theory, in particular in its applications to metrology and laser science, and via its implications for the foundations of reality.