Featured Speaker: 2018 Australian of the Year, Prof Michelle Simmons

Prof Michelle Simmons will join this year’s Universities Australia Higher Education Conference for the session on “Research frontiers: creating professions of the future”.

This session will look at cutting-edge Australian and global research, and how breakthroughs in these fields will transform our jobs, workplaces, industries and professions.

Professor Simmons will be joined by:

  • Professor Steven Tingay Executive Director of the Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy at Curtin University;
  • Professor Tanya Monro Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Research and Innovation, University of South Australia; and
  • Professor Michael Fuhrer Director, ARC Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies, Monash University.

The discussion will be lead by QUT Vice-Chancellor Professor Margaret Sheil AO.

For more information, visit the conference website here