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Australian mathematician Akshay Venkatesh has become only the second Australian to win a Fields Medal, often described as the Nobel Prize for mathematics. The first was Terence Tao FAA FRS in 2006.

Five Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science are among 16 recipients of the Australian Research Council’s prestigious Laureate Fellowships, announced by the Minister for Education and Training Simon Birmingham.

PhD student and social roboticist Siva Leela Krishna Chand Gudi has been selected by the Australian Academy of Science to represent Australia at the highly prestigious 6th Heidelberg Laureate Forum in Germany in September.

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The contributions to Australian science and industry by the late Sir Ian William Wark CMG CBE FAA FTSE were commemorated this month with the Australian Academy of Science’s Ian Wark Medal and Lecture.

The newly-formed International Science Council has met for the first time at its founding General Assembly in Paris.

The Australian Academy of Science congratulates Academy Fellows Martin Green, Terry Hughes and Brian Walker on recent international recognition of their research.

Seven Academy Fellows have been recognised in this year’s Queen’s Birthday honours list, including four who have received Australia’s highest accolade for their work, named as Companions in the General Division of the Order of Australia.

A talented local scientist’s work to develop a form of ‘electronic skin’ that monitors the environment and the human body has been recognised by the Australian Academy of Science.