Rod Rickards Fellowships have been awarded in 2016 to three researchers to allow them to travel to Europe to undertake research in chemistry or biology—Dr Andrey Molotnikov from Monash University, Dr Katrina Witt from Deakin University and Dr Pu Xiao from UNSW Australia.
The Australian Academy of Science invites applications from Australian early career researchers for the Australia–India Early- and Mid-Career (EMCR) Fellowships. The fellowships will provide support to EMCRs to visit India and work with leading Indian science and technology organisations to facilitate long-term science, technology and innovation collaboration between Australia and India.
The Australian Academy of Science invites applications from Australian researchers to undertake Postdoctoral Fellowships in Japan during 2017–18. The fellowships are for a period of 12 to 24 months.
Dr Kim van Netten of the University of Newcastle has been selected to represent Australia at the international event Falling Walls in Berlin encouraging links between research, business and innovation.
The International Council for Science (ICSU) is a non-government organisation with a global membership of 48 international scientific unions and interdisciplinary science bodies. These organisations convene scientists within and across the disciplines to coordinate research and address issues of global significance.
Nine Australian early- and mid-career researchers (EMCRs) took part in an innovative trilateral symposium with young scientists from the US and Indonesia in August.
US science and engineering graduate students visited Australian scientific and cultural institutions while on their summer break to conduct research and build relationships with their Australian counterparts.
Estonia’s Ambassador to Australia described the emergence of his country as one of the most advanced e-societies in the world during a visit to the Academy in July.
Secretary of the Chilean Academy of Sciences, Professor Francisco Hervé, visited the Academy in July while in Canberra to undertake research with his collaborators at the Australian National University.
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