Abstracts Book - IMRC 2018

Plenary lectures
Tuesday, August 21st
Prof. Amanda S. Barnard
Office of the Chief Executive Science Leader
Data61
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research
Organisation, Australia
Room: Tulum D & E
11:30 - 12:30 hrs
Biography
Dr. Amanda Barnard is an Office of the Chief Executive Science Leader within
Data61 at CSIRO. She received her Ph.D. (Physics) in from RMIT in 2003, followed
by a Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for Nanoscale Materials at
Argonne National Laboratory (USA), and the prestigious senior research position
as Violette & Samuel Glasstone Fellow at the University of Oxford (UK) with an
Extraordinary Research Fellowship at The Queen’s College. She joined CSIRO
as an Australian Research Council Queen Elizabeth II Fellow in 2009, and now
as an OCE Science Leader she leads research developing structure/property
relationships using computational physics and chemistry, machine learning,
deep learning and AI. Dr Barnard is a member of the Nature Index Panel (Nature
Publishing Group), and has previously served as an Associate Editor for Science
Advances (AAAS). She is the Chair of the National Computational Merit Allocation
Scheme for Australia (awarding $10 million in resources annually) and a Fellow
of the Australian Institute of Physics. For her work she has won the 2009 Young
Scientist Prize in Computational Physics from the International Union of Pure and
Applied Physics, the 2009 Malcolm McIntosh Award from the Prime Minister of
Australia for the Physical Scientist of the Year, the 2010 Frederick White Prize
from the Australian Academy of Sciences, the 2014 ACS Nano Lectureship (Asia/
Pacific) from the American Chemical Society, and the 2014 Feynman Prize in
Nanotechnology (Theory) from the Foresight Institute, being the first woman to do
so in the history of the award.
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