Peter David Drummond FAA is a physicist and distinguished professor in the Centre for Quantum and Optical Science at Swinburne University of Technology.
Drummond was born in New Zealand in 1950, and was educated at Auckland University, where he graduated a B. Sc.
(Hons), at Harvard where he received an A. M. (masters) degree, and at the University of Waikato in New Zealand, where his D.Phil.
degree was supervised by Dan Walls and Crispin Gardiner.
He moved to Swinburne University of Technology in 2008.