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Issue 52 | May 2009
Dr Amanda Barnard
Materials Science and Engineering (CMSE) scientist, Amanda Barnard, has been awarded the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) 2009 Young Scientist Prize in Computational Physics.
The award acknowledges Amanda as a world leader on 'nanomorphology' – the study of the structures, shapes and solid-phase of materials at the nanoscale.
Amanda will be presented with the IUPAP Prize in mid-December at the 2009 Conference on Computational Physics to be held in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
The announcement of the IUPAP prize was closely followed by the offer of a 2009 Future Summit Leadership Award from the Board of the Australian Davros Connection (ADC).
The ADC Leadership award will be presented to Amanda by The Rt Hon Sir Ninian Stephen, former Governor-General of Australia and Patron of ADC, at the 'Future Summit' to be held at Crown Towers on 18–19 May.
Since graduating from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University in 2001 – and earning a PhD in record time in 2003 – Amanda has held Postdoctoral Fellow positions at several distinguished research institutions including:
Computer modeling simulations
of nanoparticles shapes
Currently, Amanda is an Australian Research Council Queen Elizabeth II Fellow and leader of the Virtual Nanoscience Laboratory, which is part of the Future Manufacturing Flagship's Nanosafety theme.
Amanda has made a number of important contributions to the field of nanoscience, in particular on how nanoparticles interact with the environment and how environmental changes may affect their stability. This work has earned her invitations to write an article for Nature Materials and a chapter on predicting the risks and hazards associated with nanomaterials for a book on nanotechnology due for publication
in 2009.
In addition to the IUPAP Prize and the ADC Award Amanda has received numerous Australian and international awards, including the 2008 L'Oreal Australia for Women in Science Fellowship and the 2009 JG Russell Award from the Australian Academy of Science.
IUPAP is an international non-government organization devoted to the advancement of physics worldwide. Its aim is to help in the application of physics towards solving problems of concern to humanity.
ADC (Australian Davos Connection Limited) is a wholly Australian,
non-political, not-for-profit leadership organisation which brings together leaders from business, government, the public sector, academia and the broader community to improve their understanding of key issues affecting Australia.
