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Professor Tanya Monro
SCIENCE
Safe house
Why the future of
Australia’s defence
is in safe hands.
STORY BY
KELLY BROWN
A
ustralia’s first female Chief Defence
Scientist Professor Tanya Monro, is a
brilliant physicist in her own right.
But it’s her track record of “creating
research cultures that are vibrant and outward
facing” that is truly impressive.
As the inaugural Director of both the Institute
for Photonics and Advanced Sensing, and the
Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence
for Nanoscale BioPhotonics at the University of
Adelaide, Tanya is proud of going “from nothing,
from scratch, to have what is a world renowned
institute of more than 200 people.”
“I worked very hard to build that team where I
could create a culture that was positive, outward
facing and nurturing. I worked to build alliances
and a shared vision that became the Institute for
Photonics and Advanced Sensing,” she said.
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