FLEET has significantly added to the expertise available to guide Centre policy and science, with the latest additions to the FLEET Advisory Committee (FAC) and International Scientific Advisory Committee (ISAC).
We welcome to our Centre advisory committees Professor Rebekah Brown (Monash University), Dr Esther Levy (Wiley), Francois Peeters (University of Antwerp) and Joanna Batstone (ex IBM).
Prof Rebekah Brown (FAC)
Prof Rebekah Brown is Senior Vice-Provost and Vice-Provost (Research) at Monash University, leading the University’s research agenda, practice, integrity and compliance and contributing to research strategy and enhancing the University’s research performance and vision. Rebekah is a pioneer of interdisciplinary research – pooling the expertise of multiple subject areas, to achieve breakthroughs in important issues to improve people’s lives – and her own interdisciplinary background saw her forging a successful career as a civil engineer before completing a PhD in environmental studies.
Dr Esther Levy (ISAC)
Dr Esther Levy is Editor-in-Chief of Advanced Materials Technologies and Consulting Editor for Wiley’s flagship materials science journal Advanced Materials. She is also Consulting Editor for the micro- and nanoscience journal Small, the premium open-access general science journal Advanced Science and the new open-access journal Advanced Intelligent Systems; all journals she co-launched. Dr Levy spoke at the ICON2DMat materials conference which FLEET hosted in 2018.
Prof Francois Peeters (ISAC)
Prof François Peeters heads condensed-matter theoretical studies at the University of Antwerp, where his group conducts computational modelling of semiconductor and superconducting nanostructures, including phase transitions (structural and melting), artificial atoms (quantum dots and coupled quantum dots), graphene and other 2D atomic-layered systems. Prof Peeters is a regular collaborator with FLEET CI Alex Hamilton (UNSW) and PI David Neilson (University of Camerino).
Prof Joanna Batstone (FAC)
Prof Joanna Batstone leads the Monash Data Futures Institute, coordinating data-science and artificial-intelligence (AI) capabilities from across the University in a digital ecosystem fostering collaborative interdisciplinary research and promoting lasting industry engagements.
- FLEET’s Advisory Committee helps the Executive Committee develop FLEET’s strategic plan, which sets out how the Centre will meet its goals, in particular in creating linkages with industry, academia, and government.
- FLEET’s International Scientific Advisory Committee provides independent scientific advice to FLEET investigators, both directly and through the Centre Director.