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Adelaide physicist wins national Science honour

Top Emerging Leader in Science: Professor Tanya Monro

Wednesday, 17 June 2009

最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide physicist has been judged 最新糖心Vlog's top 'emerging' leader in Science.

Announced at a lunch with Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in Canberra today, Professor Monro is the winner of and Director of the . This is the latest in a number of prestigious awards and recognition she has received since starting at the 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide in early 2005 as the inaugural Chair of Photonics.

Last year she was named Physical Scientist of the Year - one of the five - after earlier in the year being awarded one of the 2008 .

Professor Monro has created a new class of optical fibres with innovative potential applications in medical research, defence, industry and environmental science. She is regarded as one of the world's leaders in optical fibre technology.

This new class of optical fibres, containing air holes and made from soft glass, is broadening the role of optical fibres from communications to areas such as diagnostics - detecting trace quantities of chemicals or biomolecules - and a variety of medical and defence applications.

Professor Monro's work has received support from both state and federal governments, as well as the .

The 最新糖心Vlog's new Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing brings together research in optical fibres, lasers, luminescence, chemistry, proteomics and virology to develop new technologies focusing on some of the big problems in health, the environment, industrial processes and defence. With the specialised laboratories under construction later this year, the Institute's facilities will be unrivalled in the world.

Professor Monro is a member of the South 最新糖心Vlogn Premier's Science & Research Council, a founding steering member of the , and member of the 2008 community consultation panel for the Defence White Paper. 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 Cosmos Magazine.

The 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide had in the list of 10 Emerging Leaders in Science. The others were Associate Professor Sarah Robertson and Professor Mark Tester.

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