Alumni stories

Dr Arthur W Fordham – by Richard Merry

Arthur first joined CSIRO in Brisbane with the Division of Soils in 1950 as a technical assistant and completed a science degree, again while working. He then obtained first class honours and an MSc. He was awarded a CSIRO Overseas Studentship to study for a D Phil. at Oxford in the laboratory of RK Schofield. The subject of his D Phil was phosphate sorption on soil materials.

Dr Wilf Ewers – “Scientist teamed work with rock-solid skills”

Courtesy of the West Australian newspaper While the WA mining industry was reinvigorated in the 1960s, expert minds were assessing […]

Dr David A. J. Rand – “50 years with CSIRO – a journey along the electrochemical road to sustainability”

My supervisor in Cambridge , a distinguished electrochemist, directed me towards CSIRO because, in his opinion, it had one the […]

Professor Bronwyn Fox – “Working with CSIRO scientists throughout her entire career”

CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, has appointed Professor Bronwyn Fox as Chief Scientist, close to 30 years after she began her career with CSIRO as a research assistant.

Dr David Gray

Dr Gray's work focused on mineral exploration in Australia, and he was one of the international leaders in exploration hydrogeochemistry, the use of the chemical composition of groundwater to detect buried minerals and build understanding of the continent’s landscape.

Dr Richard (Dick) Manchester FAA – ‘Tour de force’ of Australian astronomy given high honour

Dr Manchester, an Honorary Fellow with CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science, is a world-leading authority on pulsars: small spinning neutron stars that send out regular pulses of radio emission, left behind after a normal star has died in an explosion.

Kate Taylor – “Working with incredible leaders”

Kate Taylor is now Director, Research Strategy, at the University of Melbourne.

William (Bill) Snowdon – A tribute for AAHL’s Founding Chief

Bill joined the virology section of the CSIRO Division of Animal Health based in Parkville, Melbourne in 1959, and over 30 years, became not only an expert in exotic diseases of livestock, but also in the infrastructure and microbiological requirements for building a maximum-security laboratory allowing research into the most dangerous infectious agents in the world.

Sebastien Ourselin – “Network and collaboration”

Sebastien Ourselin is now Head of the School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences, King’s College London.