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Australian Laureate Fellowships at forefront of Australian research
Seventeen outstanding new Australian Laureate Fellows will receive a total of $53.7 million in funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC) to conduct ground-breaking, internationally competitive research.
ARC Chief Executive Officer, Professor Sue Thomas, welcomed today’s announcement by Minister for Education and Youth Alan Tudge of the successful 2021 Australian Laureate Fellows awarded through the ARC Australian Laureate Fellowships scheme.
“These prestigious fellowships, highly coveted in the Australian research sector, provide support to some of our best and brightest researchers to focus on important areas of research,” said Professor Thomas.
“Australian Laureate Fellows also perform a vital role in developing and mentoring the next generation of Australian researchers.
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ANU researchers win nation’s most prestigious funding award
The fate of galaxies, building health equity for all and making new materials from “crystal chemistry” will be the focus of three major research projects at The Australian National University (ANU) receiving more than $9.7 million in Federal Government funding.
Professor Naomi McClure-Griffiths, Professor Sharon Friel and Professor Yun Liu have all won prestigious Laureate Fellowships from the Australian Research Council – the nation’s top research funding award.
The three join 14 other Australian-based researchers sharing more than $53.7 million in funding. Vice-Chancellor Professor Brian Schmidt congratulated all three ANU winners.
“ARC Laureate Fellowships are Australia’s most prestigious researching funding scheme, recognising the very best of the best,” he said.
2021-04-09 06:06:09 GMT2021-04-09 14:06:09(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
CANBERRA, April 9 (Xinhua) The opening of China s Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) to international scientists could enhance collaboration of scientists from different countries, said Australian astrophysicist Naomi McClure-Griffiths. The telescope is brand new. Many people want to use it, and there s a lot of competition to use the telescope, said McClure-Griffiths in an interview with Xinhua. As we move into the future, I hope to be able to use it more.
FAST is in southwest China s Guizhou province. As world s largest filled-aperture and most sensitive radio telescope, it officially opened to the world starting March 31.
Opening of China s FAST telescope to int l scientists enhances collaboration, says Australian astrophysicist
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The opening of China s Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) to international scientists could enhance collaboration of scientists from different countries, said Australian astrophysicist Naomi McClure-Griffiths. The telescope is brand new. Many people want to use it, and there s a lot of competition to use the telescope, said McClure-Griffiths in an interview with Xinhua. As we move into the future, I hope to be able to use it more.
FAST is in southwest China s Guizhou province. As world s largest filled-aperture and most sensitive radio telescope, it officially opened to the world starting March 31.
Credit: Greg Rowbotham ICRAR UWA 2016
A new $1 million Federal Government grant to Curtin University will enable a major upgrade to the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), giving the giant radio telescope even greater power to read and process signals captured from distant outer space.
The grant is through the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Scheme (NCRIS) and administered by Astronomy Australia Ltd (AAL) and will replace the aging correlator, or brains of the telescope, which has been used since the MWA began operating in 2012.
The MWA is a low-frequency radio telescope that scans the Earth s southern skies and consists of more than 4000 spider-like antennas spread across several kilometres within CSIRO s Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory (MRO) in remote Western Australia.