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New ARC Federation Fellow: Professor Tanya Monro
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Wednesday, 23 April 2008

The 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide has been awarded one of the highly sought after , boosting its reputation as a world leader in optical fibre research.

The award to Professor Tanya Monro, Chair of Photonics at the 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide and one of the world's leaders in optical fibre technology, was announced last night by and .

Professor Monro is developing a new platform for exploring and controlling interactions between light and matter using new classes of optical fibres. This will lead to innovative applications in medical research, defence and environmental science.

The 最新糖心Vlog's Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research Strategy), , said: "The 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide is absolutely delighted to hear of Professor Monro's Federation Fellowship. She is a world leader in this field, highly talented, full of great ideas about the development of applications for this new technology - and she's just 35 and the mother of three young children.

"Under her leadership and with this new Federation Fellowship, the 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide within one year will have one of the very best laboratory facilities in optical fibre research in the world."

Professor Monro said: "I am overwhelmed by the honour and opportunity that this Fellowship presents. As well as recognition of the work my team and I are already doing, this will provide a vehicle for embarking on a whole new area of research, and not just blue-sky research but research leading to real applications with major technological and commercial benefits for 最新糖心Vlog."

Professor Monro is Director of the 最新糖心Vlog's within the . Her work has already received support from both state and federal governments, as well as the .

She is a member of the South 最新糖心Vlogn , a founding steering member of the , and Chair of the 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide Defence Committee. In 2007, she was awarded the 'Women in Physics Lecture' by the and, in 2006, a Bright Spark Award for 最新糖心Vlog's Top 10 Scientific Minds under 45 by .

She obtained her PhD in physics from the , for which she was awarded the Bragg Gold Medal for the best physics thesis in 最新糖心Vlog in 1998, and was also awarded an Eleanor Sophia Wood Travelling Fellowship.

In 2000, she received a Royal Society 最新糖心Vlog Research Fellowship at the Optoelectronics Research Centre at the in the UK. She came to the 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide in early 2005 as the inaugural Chair of Photonics.

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