The Academy's Early- and Mid-Career (EMCR) Forum has announced changes to its executive team.
The EMCR Forum is the national voice for Australia's emerging scientists, representing scientists who are up to 15 years post-PhD.
The new team includes Dr Nikola Bowden as committee chair, along with Dr Adrian Carter and Dr Michael Crichton who will each take on the role of deputy chairs.
Dr Nikola Bowden has been a member of the EMCR Forum Executive since 2014 and was this year named a NSW Tall Poppy. She works at the Hunter Medical Research Institute in Newcastle investigating DNA repair in cancer.
Dr Adrian Carter is the editor of the EMCR Forum’s newsletter: EMCR Pathways and a member of the EMCR Forum Executive since 2015. His research examines the impact that neuroscience has on understanding and treatment of addiction and other compulsive behaviours and he is based at Monash University.
Dr Michael Crichton works on novel biomedical devices with the aim of producing and improving microdevices for drug and vaccine delivery. He has previously worked in industry but currently performs research at the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN) at the University of Queensland. He joined the EMCR Forum executive in 2015.
In addition to current members Dr Sharath Sriram and Dr Roslyn Hickson, the executive also now includes five new members (listed below) selected from 42 applicants from around the country.
Dr Hamish Clarke is a recent PhD graduate who works at the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage. In his spare time he brings science to the masses by running Science at the Local, a way for the Blue Mountains' community to engage with scientists and current scientific research.
Associate Professor Drew Evans is a member of the South Australian Science Council which advises the Chief Scientist of South Australia. His research is performed at the Future Industries Institute at the University of South Australia where he works in the area of translational materials research and is co-inventor on numerous patents.
Dr Elizabeth New is a lecturer at the University of Sydney where her work focusses on the development of small molecule fluorescent and magnetic resonance probes for the study of biological systems. She has received numerous award both for her research and her work in outreach. She is a 2015 NSW Tall Poppy Award winner.
Dr Carly Rosewarne is a geneticist who studies “the unseen majority”, commonly known as microbes at CSIRO in Adelaide. She is also a passionate advocate for gender diversity in science and is seeking to encourage more female EMCRs to acts as mentors.
The research career of Dr Irene Suarez-Martinez has been dedicated to the atomistic modelling of carbon materials and she is currently a Senior Research Fellow at Curtin University. She has also contributed widely in the science outreach area from presenting at science festivals to producing short films about nanoscience.
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