WA's Chief Scientist
Professor Lyn Beazley AO FTSE
Chief Scientist of Western Australia
Professor Lyn Beazley was appointed Chief Scientist of Western Australia in 2006. Lyn was awarded Officer of the Order of Australia in January 2009. She is a member of the new Technology and Industry Advisory Council (TIAC) to the Western Australian Government. In March 2011 she was inducted into the inaugural Western Australian Women’s Hall of Fame.
Lyn undertook her undergraduate studies at Oxford University and her doctorate at Edinburgh University, her research career has spanned 30 years. She is Winthrop Professor in Zoology at the University of Western Australia, where she built up an internationally renowned research team that focused on recovery from brain damage. Her research also changed clinical practice in the treatment of infants at risk from pre-term delivery.
BioGENEious and beyond
Monday, 23 April 2012 10:19
So many of our State’s wonderful science achievements fly under the radar. As WA’s Chief Scientist I am privileged to see science progress first hand but for many, the ‘lab’ is a million light-years removed from everyday life.
Well I’d like to try to bring you some highlights of WA science that will have affected you or someone you know.
Celebrating 50 years of space travel
Monday, 30 January 2012 09:00
PERTH became known as ‘The City of Light,’ after American astronaut, John Glenn passed over Western Australia during his first earth orbit in ‘Friendship 7’ on 20th February 1962.
Lady Amber visits Fremantle
Monday, 16 January 2012 09:00
THIS month, Perth was fortunate to have the ‘Lady Amber’ drop in. She has spent the last year traversing the Indian Ocean, launching drifting monitoring devices into deep waters to help map the ocean we know so little about.
Chief Scientist represents WA science in Vietnam
Wednesday, 16 November 2011 00:00
MY recent trip to Vietnam was all about showcasing Western Australia as a world class study and research destination. Vietnam is currently WA’s 9th largest source market, with about 1,600 international students.
Forging scientific links with the UK
Tuesday, 18 October 2011 00:00
EACH year I have taken the opportunity to promote Western Australian science in Europe and to forge new links between the two. It is a wonderful opportunity to work with WA's Agent General in the UK, Dr Kerry Sanderson AO. Thank you Kerry and her team!
Chemistry in everything we do
Wednesday, 21 September 2011 00:00
Festivals, comedy debates, CO2 sorbet and shopping centres are not what you necessarily you think of as science but these were all part of National Science Week 2012.
Citizen science and supercomputing
Monday, 12 September 2011 00:00
In the realm of space science, what we know is so little compared to what we have yet to discover. The discovery process is often through observation with optical and radio-telescopes. We gather data from the skies, then process the information with the aid of supercomputers.
