Academy Fellow and world leader in field robotics Professor Hugh Durrant-Whyte has been appointed the next Chief Scientist and Engineer for New South Wales.
Professor Durrant-Whyte is currently Chief Scientific Adviser for the UK Ministry of Defence. He will start his new role in September.
The Australian Academy of Science has launched an award to recognise research in the natural sciences by outstanding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander PhD students and early- and mid-career scientists.
A talented local scientist’s work to develop a form of ‘electronic skin’ that monitors the environment and the human body has been recognised by the Australian Academy of Science.
Seven Academy Fellows have been recognised in this year’s Queen’s Birthday honours list, including four who have received Australia’s highest accolade for their work, named as Companions in the General Division of the Order of Australia.
This month we warmly welcome Professor John Shine AC PresAA as the 19th President of the Australian Academy of Science.
The Academy’s celebration of science held in May each year, Science at the Shine Dome, saw 400 attendees hear from 57 speakers over three days.
The Academy’s recently published annual report has highlighted the organisation’s many achievements made in 2017.
The Academy is the Australian member of the International Council for Science (ICSU), a non-government organisation with a global membership of al scientific unions, interdisciplinary science bodies and 120 national scientific bodies representing 140 countries.
The ICSU and the International Social Science Council (ISSC) will merge in July to create a unified, international organisation, the International Science Council, whose vision will be to advance all sciences as a global public good.
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