Personal news

I’ve had an exciting week personally, with the news that I’m to receive an Australian Government Federation Fellowship. This is a very generous Fellowship scheme (described here), and I’m incredibly pleased and grateful to have received it. I was also extremely pleased to find out that my fellow quantum physicist Howard Wiseman (at Griffith University, also in Brisbane) was a recipient this year. Any scientist who’s ever thought, even remotely, that they might have an interest in moving to Australia, should definitely check out the scheme.

4 comments

  1. Congratulations, Michael!

    And to think that I was once the drunk guy in the back row of the freshman pure maths lectures you were also in. You’re the Federation Fellow and I’m a journalist… it all makes sense now…

  2. Thanks, David and Seb.

    It’s actually news to me that you were drunk, David. So at least you were discrete!

    In first year I was lucky enough to have an excellent lab partner (they were assigned randomly) — he was a nice guy, reliable, with lots of common sense. The only minor difficulty was that we had labs on Monday afternoon, and he turned up _badly_ hung over — I’m talking the shade of green that makes you wonder if someone needs a doctor — a half dozen times or so, after what must have been huge Sunday nights out. Fortunately, the person running the lab was kind enough to let us reschedule on those occasions.

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