The Forrest Research Foundation has responded to the research funding crunch caused by COVID-19 by appointing 13 post-doctoral Prospect Fellows to continue their outstanding research at Western Australian universities. Prospect Fellowships provide 18 months of funding, together with mentoring and a professional development program, to ensure that these brilliant early career researchers can continue with […]
We attract the brightest minds from around the world to conduct bold and exciting doctoral research at any of Western Australia’s five universities. Forrest PhD Scholarships are offered to students who have exceptional academic profiles and who have the desire, drive and imagination to undertake doctoral research of the highest standard. Academic excellence is a […]
By Liz McGrath Marisa Duong’s love of learning began when she was a child in Vietnam, soaking up everything she could from her computer science teacher mum and electrical engineer dad. “We were a maths and science family that’s for sure but we had a joke in the family that while mum might have taught […]
The Forrest Research Foundation has today announced a new $3 million Prospect Fellowship Program to bring Australia and New Zealand’s brightest recent PhD graduates to Western Australia to continue their ground-breaking research. The program supports the research and innovation Australia needs to prosper in a post-COVID-19 world, when funding for early career research is increasingly […]
By Liz McGrath Growing up in Buenos Aires with its seductive but omnipresent noise and energy is about as far from the breathtaking wilderness of Western Australia’s remote Kimberley Region as you can get. But for Ana Paula Motta her childhood in the birthplace of the tango, coloured by a lifelong love of animals, set […]
By Liz McGrath Put Liam Scarlett to the ‘pub test’ and ask him to summarise his area of research in 30 seconds and no problem. That’s despite his field of theoretical physics being one of the most intellectually demanding in science. “I use supercomputers and quantum mechanics to study atomic and molecular collisions,” the 28-year-old […]
By Liz McGrath Bhedita Seewoo laughs that growing up the middle of five children in a highly competitive and tight-knit family might have left her with a burning desire to succeed, but it didn’t allow for much downtime. That’s despite the fact that home was a small northern village on the African island nation of […]
By Liz McGrath Bioinformatician and Forrest Fellow Philipp Bayer is a valuable commodity in today’s world – a biologist with ‘a knack’ for computational analysis and a desire to tackle one of the most pressing and complex problems on the planet. “Climate change is real and climate change is here and the world is running […]
Frederik Seersholm, a Forrest Scholar completing his PhD at Curtin University, is part of an international team who have uncovered a large number of bones of extinct Mauritian animals, including the well-known Dodo. A group of local and international researchers re-discovered a swamp near Mare la Chaux in September 2015 after being inspired by an […]
Four post-doctoral researchers from around the world have been named recipients of the prestigious 2020 Forrest Fellowships. Forrest Fellowships are provided to outstanding early career researchers to undertake high quality research at any of the five universities in Western Australia. Dr Jessica Buck who is the first Indigenous Forrest Fellow and was the first Aboriginal […]
