awards and honours

Raghda Abdel Khaleq (ANU)

John Carver Seminar Series – Dean’s Prize & People's Choice Awards awarded by the Research School of Physics, the Australian National University for proactively seeking out opportunities to fuse expertise in arts and science to create and engage into various arts/ science events

Raghda Abdel Khaleq (ANU)

Physics Director’s School Service Award – Individual Award awarded by the Research School of Physics, the Australian National University for talk titled: "Sensitivity of Dark Matter-Nucleus Interactions To Nuclear Structure"

Michael Baker (UoM)

Early Career Researcher Global Collaborations Award travel grant awarded by The University of Melbourne

Michael Baker (UoM)

Royal Society International Exchanges Travel Grant awarded by The Royal Society

Sue Barrell AO (CDM Advisory Board and chair of SUPL Ltd) Officer of the Order of Australia in the Australia Day Honours List former Chief Scientist at the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM), Sue received the award for ‘distinguished service to earth science through meteorology and research organisations’.

Lindsey Bignell (ANU)

National Science Week ACT Grant awarded by the ACT Government

Celine Boehm (UoS)

Women in Leadership Medal awarded by the Australian Institute of Physics for her excellence in academic research and leadership of large international collaborations, for her distinguished role in shaping astroparticle physics research in Australia, exemplary academic mentorship and her outstanding performance as a Head of School, which resulted in an inclusive, supportive and transparent workplace environment in the School of Physics at the University of Sydney and, notably, a significant increase in the number of female academics and professional staff and mid and early career researchers in leadership roles.

Michaela Froehlich (ANU)

Best presentation SPERA 2022 Instruments & Method Development session awarded by the South Pacific Environmental Radioactivity Association for talk titled “Investigating the lead-210 background in lead materials and chemical reagents”

Guangyong Fu (UoM)

N.D. Goldsworthy Scholarship for Physics (PhD) awarded by The University of Melbourne

Grace Lawrence (SUT) Young Scientists Prize awarded by the 14th International Conference on Identification of Dark Matter for talk titled “Gusts in the Headwind: Uncertainties in Direct Dark Matter Detection”, selected from 90 talks given at the conference, it is recognition that her research is an important new direction which bridges particle and astrophysics.

Ben McAllister (SUT/UWA)

UWA Aspire Award awarded by the University of Western Australia

Robert Mostoghiu Paun (SUT)

Honorific Thesis Mention awarded by the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain

Hitarthi Pandya (UoA)

Poster and Peoples choice award awarded by the University of Adelaide for the best poster at the APSS Symposium

Quantum and Dark Matter Road Trip National Science Week Grants 2022 grant awarded by the Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources

Quantum Technologies and Dark Matter Research Laboratory, QDM Lab - Michael Tobar, Jeremy Bourhill, Evgeny Ivanov(UWA)

School Award for Research Impact and Innovation awarded by the School of Physics, Mathematics and Computing, University of Western Australia

Alexei Sopov (UoM) McKellar Prize in Theoretical Physics awarded by the University of Melbourne

Phillip Urquijo (UoM) promoted to Professor by the University of Melbourne recognising his leadership in the field of physics and the impact he has made in shaping the physics program of Belle II and as the technical coordinator of SABRE South.

Student Completions

Honours:

Steven Samuels (UWA)

Masters:

Max Amerl (UoA)

Ishaan Goel (UWA)

Carol Isaac (UoM)

Robert Limina (UWA)

Campbell Millar (UWA)

Deepali Rajawat (UWA)

Bryn Roughan (UWA)

Iman Shaukat Ali (UoM)

Owen Stanley (UoM)

Joshua Wood (UoM)

PhD:

Joseph Allingham (UoS)

Graeme Flower (UWA)

Adam Leinweber (UoA)

Ibtihal Mahmood (UoM)

Zachary Picker (UoS)

James Webb (UoM)