Congratulations for recent staff awards and ARC Future Fellowships

ANU Staff Excellence Awards

The ANU Staff Excellence Award Ceremony was held at the Great Hall this Tuesday with the following RSPE staff members receiving awards: Drs Adrian Ankiewicz & Boyd Blackwell, Mr John Bockwinkel (25 year Service Medallion); Mr Kevin Lonsdale & Dr David Weisser (40 year Service Award); Mr Alan Cooper (Career Achievement); and Mr Bernard King (Innovation & Excellence in Service Quality). The school community would like to congratulate you all on these achievements.

ARC Future Fellowships

The School congratulates the following ARC Future Fellowship applicants on their success: Drs Adrian Sheppard, Andrey Sukhorukov, Andrew Truscott, Ben Buchler, Cormac Corr, Daniel Shaddock and Greg Lane. RSPE did very well this year with 7 out of 13 applicants winning this year.

Top Supervisor Awards

Congratulations also to Professor Chennupati Jagadish and Dr Tim Senden for being among the recipients of the 2010 Top Supervisors Awards instituted to honour ANU staff who have excelled in supervising their research students.

ANU Physics sweeps AIP Annual Awards

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,...

"Joyful occasion" as ANU accelerator receives international recognition

The world’s foremost technical organisation has given the Heavy Ion Accelerator Facility (HIAF) at the ANU Research School of Physics global recognition for its technical significance. On 26 February 2025, IEEE awarded a Milestone to HIAF, making it only the third Australian facility to receive...

Academy honours nonlinear physicists

Two physicists from the Research School of Physics (RSPhys) have received major recognition from the Australian Academy of Science. Distinguished Professor Yuri Kivshar (Materials Physics) has been honoured with the Flinders Medal and Lecture, and Dr Daria Smirnova (Electronic Materials Engineering)...

Megavolts Episode 12: Testing dark matter detector purity

The challenge with detecting dark matter is that the signal will probably be incredibly small – perhaps only a couple of particles per day. So it would be really easy to be fooled by some other signal, such as lead-210, which is radioactive. Dr Anton Wallner is testing the crystals that will be used...