Key Facts:
ANSTO employs round 190 ladies in science associated roles.
ANSTO is actively working to deal with a number of the most difficult points going through Australia at the moment in human well being, the atmosphere, superior supplies and important minerals.
ANSTO Celebrates its Incredible Women in Science
ANSTO is privileged to be house to an unbelievable array of excellent ladies in science. On the International Day of Women and Girls in Science we needed to thank each. Thank you!
ANSTO employs round 190 ladies in science associated roles. It’s not possible to spotlight all of them, however right here’s a small pattern:
Dr Helen Maynard-Casely, is an skilled in small molecules and ices, a Principal Instrument Scientist on the Australian Centre for Neutron Scattering and is co-responsible for the Wombat high intensity diffraction instrument, Dr Maynard-Casely researches the mineral constructing blocks of our photo voltaic system, specialising on supplies that solely type at cryogenic temperatures.
Dr Karin Soldenhoff, is a Principal Consultant inside ANSTO’s minerals area, managing course of growth and analysis teams. Dr Soldenhoff is widely recognised for her revolutionary contributions to solvent extraction and may be very energetic in the processing of crucial minerals together with uncommon earths.
Dr Rosemary Young, an X-ray Chemist and Instrument Scientist on the Macromolecular Crystallography Beamlines at ANSTO’s Australian Synchrotron. Dr Young is a vibrant star in investigations of the 2025 Nobel Award successful area of Metal Organic Frameworks—MOFs.
Nikki Keighran, an ANSTO Radiation Protection Advisor, specialises in radiation security, nuclear forensics and crime scene examination. A current Superstar of STEM recipient, Nikki is deepening her understanding of the ability of efficient science communication and utilizing it to demystify nuclear security for the broader neighborhood.
Dr Floriana Salvemini, an instrument scientist on ANSTO’s neutron imaging instrument DINGO. Dr Salvemini is an skilled in neutron imaging and diffraction for investigations into cultural heritage. Her work focuses on steel know-how, from trendy supplies to historical artefacts (she makes use of non-invasive methods to check historic artwork and different archaeologically important gadgets).
Dr Mitra Safavi-Naeini,is the Principal Physicist and Acting Leader of the Centre for Accelerator Science, and a prolific researcher in the fields of particle physics and medical radiation physics. She’s presently main a venture to develop a new class of precision radiotherapy for aggressive brain cancers.
Karyn Wilde is a microbiologist and biotechnologist by coaching, a protein labelling specialist and our National Deuteration Facility’s (NDF) person program supervisor. The NDF is exclusive to the Southern Hemisphere, providing biodeuteration and chemical deuteration. Ms Wilde’s function facilitates an astonishing array of labor in areas like supplies science, well being, life sciences and structural biology.
Julie Mulholland is a member of ANSTO’s distinctive schooling crew. She’s a well-known face and supply of data to VIPs and faculty kids as an schooling officer and Lucas Heights campus tour information, however she’s additionally a passionate STEM advocate and is pivotal in distilling advanced scientific information units into partaking, accessible codecs for science educators to make use of with their college students.
Dr Jessica Veliscek-Carolan is a nuclear chemist in nuclear science and know-how, specialising in nuclear supplies. She’s an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at UNSW Sydney, a member of Women in Nuclear Australia, a prolific publisher of papers and certainly one of Australia’s most proficient nuclear consultants.
Dr Lidia Matesic is our Radiopharmaceuticals Research Manager. She leads a multidisciplinary crew researching the use of therapeutic radioisotopes to advance the event, manufacturing and translation of radiopharmaceuticals into preclinical and scientific research.
Dr Cath Hughes, Principal Research Scientist, Isotope Hydrology, works in water useful resource administration and local weather science. Her function in understanding the age, motion and origin of water permits us to successfully handle important, restricted freshwater sources, defend ecosystems and assess contamination and local weather change dangers.
In this video certainly one of ANSTO’s youngest ladies in science, Charlie Stanwix, a Process Engineer in minerals, describes engaged on initiatives for the mining and important minerals business.
In one other celebration of ladies in science ANSTO is hosting the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) flagship Lise Meitner Programme (LMP) from 9 to twenty February, welcoming 22 early-to-mid profession ladies professionals to our Lucas Heights campus.
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ANSTO makes use of nuclear science and know-how to ship real-world advantages to Australia by means of excellence in analysis, supporting entry to nuclear applied sciences to enhance well being, offering skilled recommendation to Government and main the event of a nuclear workforce.
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