Leading women scientists and engineers headline ANU sensing event
Four leading scientists and engineers who work with smart sensors will headline a stimulating panel discussion at the next NSW Smart Sensing Network Women in Sensing event at the Australian National University (ANU) on 12 September.
The NSSN Women in Sensing event series started in 2022 with the aim of profiling women researchers and leaders from across the network of nine universities.
The event provides inclusive platforms for networking and identifying collaborative opportunities.
One of the speakers at the ANU event will Professor Céline d’Orgeville, who is the Director of the ANU Advanced Instrumentation & Technology Centre (AITC) in the Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics.
Prof d’Orgeville leads a team of over 50 scientists and engineers developing innovative, bespoke, cutting-edge instrumentation for astronomy and space.
Professor Céline d’Orgeville
Director of the ANU Advanced Instrumentation & Technology Centre
She is a world leading expert in Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics (LGS AO) for astronomy, and the Australian Principal Investigator for the ULTIMATE-Subaru Ground Layer AO and the Giant Magellan Telescope Laser Tomography AO projects.
As an ANU Translational Fellow, she is working with government and industry to transfer her LGS AO research into the commercial world of space situational awareness and ground-to-space laser communications.
Prof d’Orgeville is also a long-standing ANU Ally; was the inaugural chair of the RSAA Access and Equity Committee; and has been a member of the Astronomical Society of Australia Women in Astronomy Chapter steering committee, which later became the Inclusion Diversity Equity in Astronomy (IDEA) Chapter.
She has been a strong voice and advocate for IDEA in all its forms through her contributions to the ANU Gender Institute management committee, the University Research Committee and the ANU Academic Board.
Professor Lan Fu
Head of Department of Electronic Materials Engineering in the Research School of Physics and Engineering
Prof Lan Fu is Head of Department of Electronic Materials Engineering in the Research School of Physics and Engineering at ANU.
Prof Lan Fu’s main research interests include design, fabrication and integration of optoelectronic devices (LEDs, lasers, photodetectors and solar cells) and chemical sensors, based on low-dimensional III-V compound semiconductor structures.
She was the recipient of the IEEE Photonic Society Graduate Student Fellowship and Distinguished Lecturer Award, Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship, ARF/QEII Fellowship and Future Fellowship.
Prof Lan Fu is the current Chair of IEEE Nanotechnology Council Chapters & Regional Activities Committee, Associate Editor of IEEE Photonics Journal and Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology.
She is also the current vice-Chair of the Australian Academy of Science National Committee on Materials Science and Engineering, and vice-President of the Australian Materials Research Society (AMRS).
In 2023, Cosmos Magazine recognised Prof Lan Fu as one of the 50 Women of the Cutting edge of science in Australia.
Professor Marta Yebra
Professor in Environmental Engineering at the Fenner School of Environment and Society and the School of Engineering
Dr Marta Yebra is a Professor in Environmental Engineering at the Fenner School of Environment and Society and the School of Engineering at ANU.
She also serves as the ANU Director of the Bushfire Research Centre of Excellence and is a Mission Specialist at the ANU Institute for Space.
Her research focuses on developing remote sensing applications for managing fire risk and impact at local, regional, and global scales.
Dr Yebra has served on several advisory government bodies, including the Australian Space Agency’s Bushfire Earth Observation Taskforce, the Earth Observation Technical Advisory Group, the Victorian Department of Environment, Land, Water, and Planning’s Scientific Reference Panel, and the Australian Capital Territory Multi Hazards Advisory Council.
With over 100 published articles and 5,000 citations, she has played a significant role in advancing the field of remote sensing and fire management.
Professor Penny King
Professor in the Research School of Earth Sciences and Earth Systems Chemistry group lead.
Penny King is a Professor at the Research School of Earth Sciences and leads the Earth Systems Chemistry group.
Her group examines how volatile species – carbon-oxygen-hydrogen-sulphur compounds that prefer to be in a gas phase – are distributed on planets.
Tracking the sources and sinks of volatile elements lies at the heart of understanding how life originated, how planetary atmospheres develop, how ore deposits form, and how climate is regulated.
The group uses spectral data extensively to identify and quantify minerals and their contained volatile molecules and redox-sensitive elements.
Professor King is a champion for diversity in STEM Industries.
The Women in Sensing event will be held in the Marie Reay Teaching Centre at ANU between 11am and 1pm on Thursday, 12 September. Register for the event.