[ASA] Prof Bryan Gaensler elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science

[Kate Brooks]

Dear ASA member,

Please join me in congratulating ASA Council Member Bryan Gaensler on his election as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. Election to the Fellowship recognises a career that has significantly advanced the world's store of scientific knowledge. Bryan has certainly achieved this through his outstanding research on high-energy astrophysics, cosmic magnetic fields and the structure of our Galaxy. 

Bryan is the Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics (CAASTRO), and also an Australian Laureate Fellow in the Sydney Institute for Astronomy within the School of Physics at The University of Sydney. He leads a research team of more than 20 postdocs and students working on extreme astrophysics and has more than 230 publications in refereed journals (including 4 first-author papers in
Nature or Science). In 2011 Bryan was awarded the Australian Academy of Science Pawsey Medal, adding to an already impressive list of Awards and Achievements including the 1999 Young Australian of the Year and not to mention the 1991-1993  Manly-Warringah Rugby League Tertiary Studies Scholarship, which started Bryan off on his stellar career in astrophysics. 

Bryan is the Editor-in-Chief the ASA's Journal, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia (PASA), and is a member of the Steering Committee of the ASA Women in Astronomy Chapter. 

Well done Bryan on the richly deserved status of Fellow of the Academy. 

The full list of Fellows elected in 2013 is available at: 
http://science.org.au/fellows/elected/2013.html


Kate Brooks, 
President, ASA