Amanda S. Barnard
Dr. Amanda Barnard is an Office of the Chief Executive (OCE) Science leader, and head of the Virtual Nanoscience Laboratory at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). She received her Ph.D. (Physics) in 2003, from which she went on to a 2 year position as a Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for Nanoscale Materials at Argonne National Laboratory (USA). This was followed by 3 years in 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 (Oxford). She joined CSIRO as an Australian Research Council (ARC) Queen Elizabeth II Fellow in 2009. 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 Mercedes Benz Environmental Research Award, 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 2010 Distinguished Lecturer Award from the IEEE South Australia, and the 2010 Eureka Prize for Scientific Research. She has published over 140 peer reviewed journal articles and 13 book chapters, with over 4000 citations and an h-index of 35.
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