L’Oréal, women and science
L’Oréal Australia For Women in Science Fellowships with the support of the Australian National Commission for UNESCO
Eligibility
Applicants must be within five years of completing a PhD, Australian citizens or permanent residents, be associated with an Australian Institution and intending to continue their research in Australia in the next twelve months.
Applying
Application forms are available for download from www.forwomeninscience.com (see For Women in Science In Your Country) and also from www.scienceinpublic.com/l’oreal.htm.
Applicants must submit the completed form, along with CV including research publications, summary of past research achievements and future research plans and three letters of reference, one of which one must be from a proposed mentor.
Applications are to be submitted electronically to FWISapplications@au.loreal.com no later than midnight 29th June 2007, together with a hard copy of your application and letters of reference postmarked 29th June 2007.
Hard copy to be mailed to:
L’Oréal Australia
For Women in Science Fellowships
Corporate Communications
256 Bay Road
Sandringham Vic. 3191
Judging
An inter-disciplinary jury of scientists will review all applications.
The 2007 jury: Kurt Lambeck, Professor of Geophysics, ANU and President of the Australian Academy of Science; Cathy Foley, CSIRO Industrial Physics and President of the Australian Institute of Physics; Suzanne Corey, Director, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research and 2001 L’Oreal International Laureate; and Vijoleta Braach-Maksvytis, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Innovation and Development) at the University of Melbourne and member of the Australian National Commission for UNESCO.
The jury will review all applications and select three fellows based on:
· intellectual merit/academic records/accepted requisites for scholarly scientific study including:
· ability to plan and conduct research
· ability to work as a team member or independently
· ability to interpret and communicate research findings
· scientific excellence and appropriateness of proposed research or a clearly articulated plan of study
· reference letters
· the potential for career enhancement of the proposed research
Prize details
Six months from receiving their Fellowship, recipients are expected to submit a status report on their research projects and the value of the Fellowship.
Fellowships will be announced in September/October 2007 (date TBC) with the Fellowship payment being made within 4 weeks from this date.
The three Fellows will be expected to attend an award ceremony to be held in Melbourne.
More information
Contact fwisenquiries@au.loreal.com or (03) 9928 3339 www.forwomeninscience.com
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About robyn.owens
I started my academic life doing a BSc (Hons) in Mathematics at UWA before going to Oxford to complete an MSc and a DPhil, also in Mathematics. I then spent three years in Paris at l'Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay, continuing research in mathematical analysis and going to lots of movies before returning to UWA to work as a research mathematician.
I have lectured in Maths and Computer Science at UWA, as well as for short periods at Berkeley, The University of Canterbury in Christchurch, and Prince Songkla University in Thailand. My research has focussed on computer vision, including feature detection in images, 3D shape measurement, image understanding, and representation.