Science Futures

Our scientific achievements have made us world leaders in research.

As a premier research university UWA has a commitment to attracting talented researchers and providing them with quality training and research facilities.

1. Award winners
2. Key research areas
   

Award winners

The University is home to a wide range of research groups; led by national and international award winners.

The most notable being Microbiology in the Faculty of Life and Physical Sciences, led by the winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, Laureate Professor Barry Marshall.

Other outstanding achievers are:

• Professor David Blair was announced the Western Australian Scientist of the Year 2007 in recognition of his research into gravity waves. In the same year Dr Kristen Nowak, who is currently working on the genetics of rare muscle disorders, was named as the Young Scientist of the Year.
  

• Professor Peter Hartman’s research received the Macy-Gyorgy award for research in human milk and lactation. This was the first time a scientist outside the USA has won this celebrated prize.
  

• Emeritus Professor John Bloomfield was inducted into the Sports Australia Hall of Fame in 2007 – adding to an extraordinary list of achievements over a long and varied career. He has authored more than 100 scientific papers, five books on sport and sport science and three major government reports on the development of sport in Australia. He was a National Surf Lifesaving champion and elite-level swimming coach in both Australia and the United States. In 1979, Emeritus Professor Bloomfield was awarded Western Australian Citizen of the Year and in 1982 made a Member of the Order of Australia.
  

• In 2008 Dr Jean-Michel Le Floch, a research associate in the School of Physics, was awarded the prestigious URSI (International Council for Science) Young Scientist Award.

Key research areas

Research areas where we are already achieving international scientific breakthroughs:

1. Biomedical, Biomolecular and Chemical Sciences
2. Physics
3. Anatomy and Human Biology
4. Sport Science, Exercise and Health
5. Psychology