The Research School of Physics has had spectacular success in the 2023 awards season. Our staff and students snared medals from the Australian Institute of Physics (AIP) for best honours thesis, best PhD thesis, and for research excellence. And from the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI), the 2023...

Staff and students from the Research School of Physics have won four awards in the 2022 Australian Institute of Physics (AIP) annual awards, more than half of the seven awarded this year. The awards span research and teaching, short term and long term excellence across nuclear physics, condensed matter,...

Dr Maryna Bilokur took out the prize at the inaugural Life as Postdoc in STEM competition, with a talk journaling her postdoc journey with the metaphor of surfing waves of enormous size, at times feeling isolated and on the verge of a massive wipe-out. “I hope you haven’t felt this way,”...

Living on Mars you’re a good distance from a mechanic. So, any technology you use there would need to be robust.  These are the kind of thoughts Professor Rod Boswell has been mulling over as he considers the plans of humans to venture to other worlds (e.g. NASA's Moon to Mars Project) Transport...