Exploring shipwrecks near and far
Exploring Kublai Khan’s 1288AD invasion fleet and investigating colonial era shipwrecks off Australia – Flinders University’s Adjunct Associate Professor Mark Staniforth has enjoyed a long and […]
Archive Tag: PhD
An agricultural crusader
Equipped with a Bachelor of Agricultural Science and two dictionaries – one English to Persian and one Persian to English – Emeritus Professor Acram Taji (PhD(BiolSc) […]
A journey to lead
One of eight daughters, Professor Nor Faridah Abdul Manaf (PhD(EHLT) ’98) was inspired by her strong and determined mother to follow her dreams to become […]
Leading global advances in the science of hydrogeology
Professor Craig T Simmons FTSE (PhD(SE) ’97) is one of Australia’s foremost groundwater academics and has been a significant contributor to global advances in the science […]
Bridge building between neighbours
For decades, Dr Pratikno (PhD SS ’97) had earned an international reputation as one of the world’s leading experts on Indonesian politics – now he is […]
Simulation and defence expert
Dr Mike Brennan (BSc(Hons) ’82, PhD(PhysSc) ’86) is the principal of Brennan Advisory which was established as an independent professional service provider to organisations in the Defence […]
Flinders No.1 graduate
Professor Alan Easton has achieved significant academic firsts in his life, the first in his family to attend university and one of the first students to […]
Guardian of the big blue planet
In 1961, high above a small house in Hokkaido, Japan, Yuri Gagarin looked down from space and admired how beautiful Earth appeared. A few days later, […]
Rise of the robot tsar
When Rod Brooks headed to the US after graduating from Flinders in 1977, there were just three mobile robots in existence. Now, the iRobot company he […]