Region. Research fellowship awarded

The Federal Government has appointed Dr Zhong Tao as one of the nation's first Future Fellows, an initiative for promising mid-career researchers. Dr Tao, previously a full-time post doctoral research fellow with UWS, will return to the School of Engineering, which has one of Australia's best laboratories for testing and monitoring of heavy infrastructure. Dr Tao's research will investigate how stainless steel columns filled with concrete operate at different temperatures and in different working environments. Dr Tao's work will be carried out within the new Civionics Research Centre, at UWS, which is directed by Professor Brian Uy, and will involve an international collaboration with Professor Lin-Hai Han at Tsinghua University, one of China's most selective institutions. The fellowship, an initiative of the Australian Research Council (ARC), is worth $686,000 over four years.