Honours and awards to Fellows

Distinguished Professor Susan Scott – elected a 2022 Fellow of the International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation (ISGRG)

Finalists

Professor Kliti Grice FAA – finalist for the 2022 Western Australian Premier’s Science Award – Scientist of the Year

Professor Veena Sahajwalla – finalist for the Celestino Eureka Prize for Promoting Understanding of Science

Japan and Australia, two global leaders in science, have a rich history of working together. It is now over 40 years since the bilateral science and technology treaty between the two countries was signed. While science collaboration between Japan and Australia was well established prior to this, the treaty formalised and built on the relationship to the great benefit of both countries.

 

In a global world, the future of science depends on strong and enduring international relationships.

 

Experts from across Australia will gather for a national roundtable on September 16 to identify new approaches for negative emissions.

The invitation-only event, held online, will be hosted by the Australian Academy of Science and will be chaired by Academy President Professor Chennupati Jagadish AC PresAA FTSE.

 

Welcome to the August newsletter.

This month, we celebrated the international networks and collaborations that underpin all modern science.

Academy opportunities Science and Industry Endowment Fund – Australian Academy of Science Fellowships to the 72nd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in physiology and medicine

The Academy invites applications from early career researchers, through their institute research office, for a fellowship to participate in the 72nd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting dedicated to physiology and medicine. The meeting is being held from 25 to 30 June 2023.

Honours and awards to Fellows

Professor Richard Ellis CBE FAA FRS, Corresponding Member – awarded the Royal Medal A from the Royal Society for motivating numerous advances in telescopes and instrumentation, and exploiting these facilities to revolutionise the understanding of cosmological evolution.

From left: Pioneers of the Australian birding field guide with J. A. Leach in foreground, Neville W. Cayley behind*; some of Australia’s ‘highly developed’ birdlife from Leach’s book^; the frontispiece of the book

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