Ahmed Elagali (ICRAR-UWA), Dave Kelly MP, and Sam McSweeney (ICRAR-Curtin)
The 2018 Ken and Julie Michael Prize has been awarded to Ahmed Elagali (ICRAR-UWA) and Sam McSweeney (ICRAR-Curtin) for their respective PhD research. The prize was presented last Thursday by The Honourable Dave Kelly MLA, WA Minister for Science, in a ceremony at ICRAR-Curtin.
Congratulations also to Ahmed and Sam’s supervisors; Dr Ivy Wong, Dr Claudia Lagos, & Prof. Lister Staveley-Smith (Ahmed) and Dr Ramesh Bhat, Dr Steven Tremblay, & Prof. Avinash Deshpande (Sam).
Ahmed’s thesis is titled Studies of Interacting Galaxies & the Environmental Effects on Their Evolution and Sam’s thesis is titled Three-dimensional tomography of pulsar magnetospheres.
Thanks to The Honourable Ken Michael AC for his generous support for this Prize, first awarded in 2017 to Chenoa Tremblay and Tristan Reynolds.
Dave Kelly MLA, Sam McSweeney, and Dr Ramesh Bhat
The Honourable Dave Kelly MLA, Dr Ivy Wong, and Ahmed Elagali
