The Australian Academy of Science welcomes the release of Australia 2030: Prosperity Through Innovation plan, prepared by Innovation and Science Australia.

Professor Rick Shine is Chief Investigator for two projects funded under the ARC's Linkage Projects scheme. Photo: Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science/WildBear
Happy 64th birthday to the Australian Academy of Science!
Academy awards and funding opportunities now open

Nominations and applications for the Australian Academy of Science's 2019 honorific awards, research conferences, research awards and travelling fellowships are now open.

Find out more about the Academy’s opportunities for scientists

Honours and Awards to Fellows Australian of the Year awards

Professor Michelle Simmons FAA—2018 Australian of the Year

Professor Graham Farquhar AO FAA FRS—2018 Senior Australian of the Year

More on the Australian of the Year awards

The Academy regularly provides the Australian Government with feedback on important policy measures. Following is a round-up of the Academy’s submissions since November.

See all Academy submissions in full

New leaders for EMCRs in 2018 The new executive members of the EMCR Forum are (from left) Vanessa Wong, Adrian Murdock, Emma Beckett, Michael Bowen and Justine Shaw.

The Early- and Mid-Career Researcher (EMCR) Forum welcomes five new executive members in 2018.

(top) Dr Holly Woodward Ballard; Dr Woodward Ballard with a Maiasaura fossil. Photo by Karen Chin
Dr Shamil Cooray is researching gestational diabetes​.

The Academy has awarded the 2018 Douglas and Lola Douglas Scholarship to Dr Shamil Cooray for his research on gestational diabetes.

(from left) University of Adelaide Dean of Engineering, Professor Anton Middelberg, with Selby Fellowship recipient Professor Xi-Cheng Zhang and Professor Derek Abbott from the University of Adelaide.

Professor Xi-Cheng Zhang, the M. Parker Givens Professor at the Institute of Optics at the University of Rochester in the US, gave three Selby public lectures in December.

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