Congratulations Professor Anya Reading!
RST Apology to Tasmanian Aboriginal people 2021.
RST Apology to Tasmanian Aboriginal people 2021.
Congratulations to the 2025 Georgina Sweet Australian Laureate Fellow, Professor Anya Reading
The premier funding body for University research excellence in Australia is the Australian Research Council (ARC) and the most prestigious ARC awards are the Laureate Fellowships. These five-year fellowships are reserved for internationally top-tier researchers, and one, named the Georgina Sweet Australian Laureate Fellowship, is awarded to a female Laureate Fellow in the science and technology disciplines with outstanding capacity to support and promote women in research. The 2025 winner is Professor Anya Reading, Professor of Geophysics at the University of Tasmania and long-term RST member.
Professor Reading’s research focus has been computational data inference and seismology. Her research in geophysics has greatly advanced knowledge of the Earth’s subsurface and its interactions with environmental processes. She has substantial experience in observational seismology and interdisciplinary field programs in remote environments, especially Antarctica and outback Australia.
As the 2025 Georgina Sweet Australian Laureate Fellow, Professor Reading will examine the interaction between Antarctic ice sheets and the continent beneath using seismic and computational approaches that allow “seeing” below the ice and predicting behaviour under different conditions. The results will contribute to our understanding of the effects of climate change on Antarctica’s ice sheets which in turn has impacts on sea level and on both marine and terrestrial ecosystems.
Learn more about Anya here.
is named for Dr Georgina Sweet OBE (1875 – 1946). Dr Sweet was a highly accomplished Australian scientist who contributed greatly to the fields of zoology and parasitology. She was the first woman to graduate with a Doctor of Science from the University of Melbourne, and won numerous honours and awards from academic and scholarly institutions. Dr Sweet was also an advocate for women’s rights and held leadership positions on several national and international organisations, both professional and popular.
The Royal Society of Tasmania acknowledges, with deep respect, the traditional owners of this land, and the ongoing custodianship of the Aboriginal people of Tasmania. The Society pays respect to Elders past, present and emerging. We acknowledge that Tasmanian Aboriginal Peoples have survived severe and unjust impacts resulting from invasion and dispossession of their Country. As an institution dedicated to the advancement of knowledge, the Royal Society of Tasmania recognises Aboriginal cultural knowledge and practices and seeks to respect and honour these traditions and the deep understanding they represent.
On 15 February 2021, the Royal Society of Tasmania offered a formal Apology to the Tasmanian Aboriginal people.
