Meet the Fellows—3-minute videos

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• About “Meet the Fellows”
• Links to the Fellows’ Videos

 

About “Meet the Fellows”

Since the Fellowship category of membership was introduced in December 2013 to recognise individuals who are leaders in their field, the number has continued to grow steadily to the more than 400 Fellows and Distinguished Fellows who form part of our Society today. They join around 200 Members who are also desirous of furthering the aims of the Society and have been elected in accordance with its Rules.

Our Society includes members from a wide range of disciplines and experiences. It draws its strength by embracing the sciences and the humanities and building bridges across them. The whole becomes greater than the sum of the parts because of the new knowledge, insights, and outcomes created by this collective intelligence.

As one of its first initiatives, the Society’s Community Engagement Committee, co-chaired by Professors Kathy Belov and Eric Knight, is introducing this “Meet the Fellows” series. It will comprise 3-minute video interviews with Fellows, starting with those elected most recently. Not being able to meet face-to-face while we grapple with the pandemic means that we cannot introduce our new Fellows to each other or to the Society at large in person. These videos will help to close that gap.

Each interviewee will be asked the same set of questions. Their own unique answers will add colour and light to the Society’s membership as we interview more and more Fellows. We will extend this initiative to Society Members as soon as possible. Each interview will be posted on the Society’s website and social media accounts, subject of course to appropriate permissions.

I extend my thanks to Kathy Belov, Eric Knight, and Alice Motion from the Community Engagement Committee, and to the Society’s Webmaster, Lindsay Botten, for leading this “Meet the Fellows” initiative.

Dr Susan M Pond AM FRSN
President, Royal Society of NSW
7 August 2021

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Links to the Fellows’ Videos

To view the videos inline on this page, click on the YouTube icon on the graphic.  To view the videos at a larger scale, directly within YouTube, click on the word “YouTube” in the graphic after you have opened the inline view. The full collection of videos is also accessible from the “Meet the Fellows” playlist on the Society’s YouTube channel.

	Professor Robert Minasian FRSN Professor Emeritus, School of Electrical and Information Engineering The University of Sydney 27 January 2022
	Professor Ken-Tye Yong FRSN Professor and Associate Dean (External Engagement) The University of Sydney 12 December 2021
	Yves Hernot KONM (France) FRSN Philanthropist and Patron of the Arts 16 September 2021
	Dr Ian Oppermann FRSN FTSE NSW Chief Data Scientist Department of Customer Service, NSW Government 7 September 2021
	Associate Professor Simon de Graaf FRSN Associate Professor of Animal Reproduction The University of Sydney 13 August 2021
	Dr Carolyn Hogg FRSN Senior Research  Manager, Australasian Wildlife Genomics Group The University of Sydney 12 August 2021
	Anne Maria Nicholson FRSN Journalist, Author, Company Director, and Media and Arts Consultant 11 August 2021
	Professor Merlin Crossley FRSN Professor of Molecular Biology and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) UNSW (Sydney) 10 August 2021
	Professor Glenda Sluga FRSN FAHA Professor of International History The University of Sydney 9 August 2021
	Professor Geraint Lewis FRSN FLSW Professor of Astrophysics The University of Sydney 8 August 2021
	Kim McKay AO FRSN Director and Chief Executive Officer The Australian Museum 7 August 2021
	Professor Kathy Belov AO FRSN Professor of Comparative Genomics & Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Global Engagement) University of Sydney 4 August 2021