May 2026 CSIRO Alumni newsletter
Welcome to the May 2026 CSIRO Alumni network newsletter.
In this month’s newsletter you can read about our latest news, register for our upcoming Healthy Ageing event, sign up for the latest Innovate to Grow course and hear about activities across our network.
Energy resilience: Why consumers – and their vehicles – are central to Australia’s energy independence
Distributed energy resources are the millions of devices in homes, businesses and depots that have a role to play in our electricity system.
CSIRO outlines a regional blueprint to safeguard Australia’s food future
The South East Queensland Food System Strategy provides a coordinated, region-wide plan that responds to climate volatility, rapid population growth and increasingly fragile supply chains.
Boots on the Moon and beyond. Where next after Artemis II mission success?
Artemis II is more than a milestone. It’s an entrée for what’s ahead in space exploration. Already a part of the historic journey, Australia and CSIRO are uniquely placed to help shape the future of space exploration.
Help grow our alumni network
We now have over 5,200 members but we know that there are many more former colleagues out there. Help us build the alumni network and forward this newsletter on or share the link to alumni registration.
Many presentations and seminars are now being held online – so you can attend from the comfort of your own home. Our alumni calendar lists both CSIRO and external events, so you can find out about a wide range of events.
To help connect alumni with one another, we encourage you to list your own events on our website. Let us know if you are organising, presenting or attending events and we can help promote it to the alumni network – please email alumni@csiro.au
We feature a range of alumni stories on our website celebrating the achievements of our members. We encourage members to get in touch and send in their stories of trials and tribulations – all in the name of scientific research!
So, if you have received an award, written a book or have any stories that you'd like to share with the alumni network, please email alumni@csiro.au
We would like to thank Ian Barton for his incredibly generous contributions to our CSIRO Alumni Scholarship in Physics. With his multiple donations over the years, we have been able to continue enabling our brightest postgraduates to travel to leading research centres overseas.
If you would like to help support our scholarship, please donate through our Give Now site.
On a sadder note, if you would like to let the alumni network know about the passing of one of our members, please email us and we can post a notice to the news page and also feature an obituary within our stories section.
We invite alumni members to add their own tributes, so please contact alumni@csiro.au if you would like to share your memories of them.
Vale Kurt Eppinger
We are sorry to share the sad news that Kurt Hermann Eppinger, who was born in Jerusalem 21/10/1926, has passed away on 3/3/2026, aged 99, at the Tabulam & Templer Homes for the Aged in Bayswater, Victoria.
Kurt was a physical chemist at CSIRO over several decades, largely at the Fishermans Bend site. This included working on ion exchange resins and other projects in the water research group.