EARLY-CAREER RESEARCHER INFORMATION
and activities for
early-career researchers
Overview
The Academy hosts numerous events and provides research support to early-career researchers. Below is a list of recent and forthcoming activities.
Events
Theo Murphy (Australia) High Flyers Think Tank
The Academy’s High Flyers Think Tank series brings together early- and mid-career researchers from a broad range of disciplines to engage in thinking about novel applications of existing science and technology, and to identify gaps in knowledge that might be addressed when applying science (including social science) and technology to a particular issue.
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Visit to the National Institutes of Health in the USA for a junior scientist
The Academy invites expressions of interest from junior scientists who are no more than 30 years of age, to visit the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the USA.
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Nominations for research support awards
Nominations are sought for research support from the Margaret Middleton Fund for endangered Australian vertebrate animals and the new WH Gladstones Population and Environment Fund.
Closing date is 31 August 2010.
Meeting of the Nobel laureates
Lindau, Germany, 27 June to 2 July 2010
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National Science Foundation East Asia and Pacific Summer Program for US graduate students
This program provides US graduate students in science and engineering first-hand research experience to conduct research in Australian laboratories and to initiate personal relationships with their Australian counterparts.
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