Academic profile

Academic profiles

Karima Hamed Faryabi at ANU.

Ms Faryabi is rebuilding her life in Australia after escaping Afghanistan in 2021, giving back to medical students in the process.

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Photos of Dr Gurdial Singh training for his trek to Everest Base Camp.

A lecturer at the School of Medicine and Psychology is going to new heights to raise money for new training equipment.

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Climate scientist Dr Georgy Falster is demystifying what it's like to study and work in science, one letter at a time.

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Dr Teresa Bonello from the Genome Sciences and Cancer Division at JCSMR.

Dr Bonello is exploring the crucial elements of the tumour microenvironment.

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John Curtin School of Medical Research Director Elizabeth Gardiner poses for photographs at ANU in Canberra.

“Researchers are great people, but they live and survive in a tough environment," Professor Gardiner said.

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Two men seated on a green sofa and one woman standing

What happens to all those stories which start with the promise of an exciting new scientific breakthrough, but don’t end that way?

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Man using a blackboard

We asked Associate Professor Pierre Portal from ANU Mathematical Sciences Institute to describe why the blackboard is such an integral part of his working life, and the enjoyment of mathematics.

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Portrait of a man standing inside a building

Associate Professor Adam Piggott knows how mathematical ideas can transform our world, and he wishes more people were in on the secret.

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A book called Night Parrot and a woman's hands reading

For more than a century, the Night Parrot has inspired gripping tales of obsessive odysseys and miraculous discoveries. But now the truth has gotten in the way of a good story. And Dr Penny Olsen is wearing the cost.

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