Category: Women in Science

The winners of the 2015 L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Australia & New Zealand Fellowships are studying sharks, future memories, heavy stars, and climate change.

The Australian Fellows are:

• A hot future for sharks: marine biologist Jodie Rummer, Townsville, swims with sharks for her research
• How we imagine the future: cognitive neuroscientist Muireann Irish, Sydney has discovered the importance of future memory in daily life and dementia
• The short lives of hard-living, fast burning, high mass stars: astronomer Shari Breen, Sydney drives The Dish at Parkes to find the stars that make the starstuff that makes us all.

The inaugural New Zealand Fellow is:

• When the oceans were 20 metres higher: past and future climates: geologist Christina Riesselman, Dunedin

Read their profiles at Stories of Australian Science

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