PhD student Yifang Wang (UNSW)
FLEET ensures that our young researchers are prepared for future success – wherever their career takes them.
The Centre currently supports 51 higher degree by research (HDR) students and 43 postdoctoral researchers with another 29 research affiliates working on FLEET projects and invited to Centre training, workshops and events.
FLEET connects its researchers with internal and international networks; for example, offering research internship programs at partner organisations.
We are fortunate that FLEET ECRs have welcomed leadership roles within the Centre, including ECRs who have:
- Organised the Centre’s midyear ECR workshop
- Instigated a social media task force
- Pressed for and led a new environmental task force
- Taken on the role of chairing Centre governance committees
PhD student Matt Gebert (Monash)
FLEET training programs in 2019 included:
- Idea Factory entrepreneur program (with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems (EQUS) and CSIRO)
- Pitch training (with the ARC Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science (ACEx) and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers (ACEMS), held at
Swinburne) - YouRforum: Got PhD, What Next? (RMIT)
- Advanced thin-film X-ray diffraction (UNSW) – facilitated by ECR Dan Sando
- Working effectively with your PhD supervisor – facilitated by CI Nagy Valanoor
- Annual workshop tutorials: research in the semiconductor industry, topological insulators, unconscious bias
- 7 scholarships for FLEET members to attend Women & Leadership Australia Leading Edge professional development program
- Ongoing partnership with MAGIC workshop – mentoring and guidance for women in STEM
- Supported equity and diversity training, via new partner, Diversity Council Australia (DCA)