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Director's Message
Dear Colleagues,
Another great week for achievements and awards.
Firstly, it is my great pleasure to congratulate the successful 2023 promotion applicants.
Level B
- Maria del Rocio Camacho Morales (EME)
- Kirill Koshelev (NPLC/FTP)
- Paul Sibley (QST)
Level C
- Lindsey Bignell (NPAA)
- Kaitlin Cook (NPAA)
- Eliezer Estrecho (QST)
- Glenn Myers (MP)
Level D
- Nicolas Francois (MP)
- Bram Slagmolen (CGA)
The Ketowhistle team pictured above, Prof Lan Fu (Head EME), Dr Buddini Karawdeniya (EME), PhD student Shiyu Wei (EME) and Prof Chris Nolan (ANU Medical School) attended the ACADI (Australian Centre for Accelerating Diabetes Innovations) Health Tech Innovation Challenge and won a $30k seed grant to further develop the device. Buddini is to be congratulated for delivering the impressive pitch that cemented the prize (above). The team would like to acknowledge the brilliant and ongoing technical development of this device from our Electronics Unit, namely Dennis Gibson, Michael Blacksell and Steven Marshall, and the tremendous support from the Commercialisation team, namely Viraj Agnihotri and Kiara Bechta-Metti. The entire team were greatly heartened by overwhelmingly encouraging responses from the diabetes patients, researchers and endocrinologists at the Challenge.
Electronic Materials Engineering (EME) celebrated 35 years this year (see below). Congratulations to all members over this time. Current Head, Prof Lan Fu recounted her time and why she is so proud of the Department. Founding Head of Department and past Director, Prof Jim Williams reflected on the many characters that have contributed so richly over 35 years. It was great to see so many faces from the past three decades still associated with EME. More photos from the EME 35th anniversary can be found here.
I am pleased to call for nominations for the 2023 Director’s Awards to be presented at a special morning tea on 14th December, 1030 (foyer of new building).
The Director’s Awards recognise outstanding service in our School by a team and individual staff members. All members of the RSPhys community are eligible, including our colleagues from the Honorary Faculty, local College administration or in Central service divisions who have contributed to the School.
This year, there will be three categories for recognition of service to the School:
- individual staff member ($100 gift card)
- a team award within Physics ($200 gift card), and
- an award for teams outside Physics who have contributed to the School ($200 gift card)
Nominations should include a citation of no more than 200 words. A diverse School committee will be selected to judge the nominations, which should be sent to James Irwin, the School Manager by Friday 8th December.
Finally, the Industry Growth Program has just opened up and I can recommend taking a quick look. Awards range from $50k to $5M of matched funding for early-to mid-stage commercial projects (see below).
Have a good week, and see you at the ANZCOP-AIP meeting next week.
Tim | 