Please join me in congratulating:
Dr. John Bartholomew and Prof. Andrew Doherty, for receiving a Google Academic Research Award to support their work on quantum memory https://research.google/programs-and-events/google-academic-research-awards/google-academic-research-award-program-recipients/?filtertab=2024
Dr. Tingrei Tan, who was named a NSW Young Tall Poppy of the Year 2024 for his work in science and science communication: https://aips.net.au/tall-poppies/2024-new-south-wales-award-winner/dr-ting-rei-tan/
Prof. Mike Biercuk who was named one of The Australian’s Top 100 Innovators in 2024. Prof. Biercuk’s start up, Q-CTRL, also received some good media coverage on its latest fundraising round.
And let’s not forget our students! Congratulations to:-
Rhys Mackintosh QTG, who won the Deas Thomson Physical Science Scholarship.
Andrew Li QTG, Nihar Makadia QCL, Grant Chan QCL and Angus Rutherford QTG for winning the Physics Foundation Prize for Senior Physics.
Prachi Nagpal QCL and Julian Jee QCL won Best Poster and the People’s Choice Award respectively for their posters at the Physics HDR Symposium.
And congralutations to all of the students who graduated with PhD degrees (Samuel Smith QTG; Arkin Tikku QTG; Larry Cohen QTG AND Juliette Soule QTG) and Honours degrees (Maria Nicolae QIL and Alex Ryan SQCL).