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'South Australian Scientist of the Year' gives talk in NCSR
On Tuesday 1 June, Professor Tayna Monro, Director of the Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing (IPAS) at the University of Adelaide, held a seminar in DCU's National Centre for Sensor Research, on 'Measuring the unmeasurable: new photonics based approaches to liquid sensing'.
Prof. Monro met with Prof. Brian MacCraith, Prof. Robert Forster, Prof. Colette McDonagh, Prof. Jens Ducree, Prof. Tia Keyes and Prof. Eugene Kennedy, all key researchers in the field of photonics, while visiting the NCSR. Prof. Monro also visited many of the labs in NCSR where she interacted with many of the post graduate and post doctoral researchers and extended invitations for several researchers to visit her facilities in the University of Adelaide to foster close working relationships.
Professor Tanya Monro is an ARC Federation Fellow and Director of the Institute for Photonics & Advanced Sensing (IPAS) at the University of Adelaide. IPAS's vision is to pursue a transdisciplinary research agenda, bringing together physics, chemistry and biology to create knowledge and disruptive new technologies, and solve problems for health, defence, the environment, food and wine. She is also the Director of the Centre of Expertise in Photonics (CoEP) within the School of Chemistry & Physics at the University of Adelaide. The Centre, in partnership with DSTO, develops new optical fibres for defence, sensing, nonlinear optics and fibre lasers.
Tanya is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE), a member of the Future Manufacturing Industry Innovation Council (FMIIC), a member of the SA Premier's Science & Research Council and an inaugural Bragg Fellow of the Royal Institution of Australia. She is South Australia's "Australian of the Year" for 2011. In 2010 she was named South Australian Scientist of the Year, and was named Telstra Business Women of the Year at both National and State levels (in the Community & Government category). In 2009 Tanya was named the Emerging Leader in the Science category in The Weekend Australian Magazine's Emerging Leader awards. In 2008 she won the Prime Minister's Malcolm McIntosh Prize for Physical Scientist of the Year, in 2007-2008, she was the 'Women in Physics Lecturer' for the Australian Institute of Physics. In 2006 she was presented with a Bright Spark Award by Cosmos Magazine.
Tanya obtained her PhD in physics in 1998 from The University of Sydney, for which she was awarded the Bragg Gold Medal for the best Physics PhD in Australia in that year. In 2000, she received a Royal Society University Research Fellowship at the Optoelectronics Research Centre at the University of Southampton in the UK. She came to the University of Adelaide in 2005 as inaugural Chair of Photonics. She has published over 370 papers in journals and refereed conference proceedings, and has raised nearly $70M for research. As well as being active in research and research leadership, she serves on international, national and state committees and boards on matters of science and research policy and science evaluation and assessment.