Fellowships in Australia
Two University of Adelaide researchers have been awarded prestigious Australian Laureate Fellowships – Professor Tanya Monro, Director, Institute of Photonics and Advanced Sensing, and Professor Ian Reid, School of Computer Science and Australian Centre for Visual Technologies.
The aim of the scheme is to attract and retain outstanding researchers and research leaders of international repute and build and strengthen world-class research capability in Australia.
The Australian Laureate Fellowship Scheme, run under the auspices of the Australian Research Council, provides generous project funding in addition to salary support.
The Laureate Fellowship provides recipients with up to $300,000 towards their nominated project in addition to funding support in the form of two post-doctorate and two PhD positions. In total each Fellowship is worth up to $700,000.
Professor Monro’s project entitled “Controlling light to understand and drive nanoscale processes” aims to develop a suite of light-based sensing technologies capable of quantifying the dynamic environment within a living cell. This will extend the capacity to harness the interaction of light with matter at the nanoscale, providing new insights in fields ranging from plant biology to medicine.
As a special ambassador for sciences and technology, Professor Monro has been awarded the Georgina Sweet Australian Laureate Fellowship and will play a major role in promoting women in research.
Professor Reid’s project is “Lifelong Computer Vision Systems” which will create new ways of generating detailed environmental maps in real time, turning standard video cameras into sensors that “understand” a visual scene. This high-level sensing will unlock a wide range of applications for autonomous systems in areas such as robotics and surveillance.
