Joanne Etheridge is an Australian physicist. She is Director of the Monash Centre for Electron Microscopy and Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at

Monash University Monash University () is a public research university based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Named for prominent World War I general Sir John Monash, it was founded in 1958 and is the second oldest university in the state. The university has a ...

Academic career

Etheridge graduated with a BSc from the

University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne is a public research university located in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1853, it is Australia's second oldest university and the oldest in Victoria. Its main campus is located in Parkville, an inner suburb nor ...

and a PhD in physics from

RMIT University RMIT University, officially the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology,, section 4(b) is a public research university in Melbourne Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city ...

in 1993. In 1994 she moved to the

University of Cambridge , mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts. Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge. , established = , other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...

as Rosalind Franklin Research Fellow,

Newnham College Newnham College is a women's constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college was founded in 1871 by a group organising Lectures for Ladies, members of which included philosopher Henry Sidgwick and suffragist campaigner Millicent ...

and in 1997 became a senior research associate in the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy there. From 1999 to 2003 she was Royal Society University Research Fellow in the same department. From 2005 to 2008 she was also a visiting professor at the Brockhouse Institute at

McMaster University McMaster University (McMaster or Mac) is a public research university in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The main McMaster campus is on of land near the residential neighbourhoods of Ainslie Wood and Westdale, adjacent to the Royal Botanical Ga ...

. She returned to Monash University in Melbourne to set up and lead the Monash Centre for Electron Microscopy, where she has pioneered electron diffraction and microscopy techniques and ultra-high resolution electron microscopy in Australia. As of 2021 she is on the Editorial Board of the international journal, ''Ultramicroscopy.''

Awards and recognition

Etheridge won the University of Cambridge's K. M. Stott Prize in 1995 and the John Sanders Medal awarded by the Australian Microscopy and Microanalysis Society in 2016. In 2012 she presented the Lloyd Rees Lecture of the

Australian Academy of Science The Australian Academy of Science was founded in 1954 by a group of distinguished Australians, including Australian Fellows of the Royal Society of London. The first president was Sir Mark Oliphant. The academy is modelled after the Royal Soci ...

. In 2019 she was elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. In 2022 she was named the Australian Research Council Georgina Sweet Australian Laureate Fellow

Selected works

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Etheridge, Joanne Living people Year of birth missing (living people) University of Melbourne alumni RMIT University alumni Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science Academic staff of McMaster University Academic staff of Monash University Australian physicists