I got it! I got it! I got it! I've suddenly cheered up as I was successful in my application for a QEII fellowship. This means that I'll stay at the ATNF for at least another five years. It seems that a total of 31 QEII grants were given out this year. The titles of the approved grants include:
"Human time perception: A crossmodal investigation"
"Persistence and transformation in Ancestral Oceanic Socity: the archaeology of the first 1500 years in the Vanuatu archipelago"
"Understanding social cancers: Intra-sepecific parasitism by honeybee workers"
"From print to the internet: the media in Australia since 1803"
"Environmental and genetic risk factors for anxiety disorders in children"
"Dynamic spectrum access in multi-hop wireless broadband networks"
"The structure and geometry of graphs"
and, or course,
"Gravitational wave detection through millisecond pulsar timing"
There were two astronomy QEII's awarded and I was lucky enough to get the only award given to CSIRO. Thanks to everyone who read my application! Jonathan, David and I went out for a Thai meal to celebrate.
4 comments:
Congratulations ! I knew you could do it. I always believed in you. You really deserve it more than anyone in the world as you work so hard and you are so dedicated to pulsars. I am so happy for you. You are a star !!!
We're very pleased for you. Peter asks whether you're now earning more money than I am!
Behold the Lord High Executioner
A personage of noble rank and title —
A dignified and potent officer,
Whose functions are particularly vital!
Defer, defer,
To the Lord High Executioner!
Defer, defer,
To the noble Lord, to the noble Lord,
To the Lord High Executioner!
(W.S. Gilbert, from 'The Mikado')
Chris says he's had a sudden worry. If the Australian monarch changes during the course of the next five years, does the QEII award automatically get converted to a KCIII (or, if you are a Scottish Catholic, KCIV) award, or does the award get withdrawn and cause you to have to apply again?
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