Making use of both investigators’ research funds and Centre equity and diversity funds, scholarships are open to students who identify as female and are accepted into an Honours or PhD program to work with FLEET investigators.

To date, FLEET has awarded two WiF Honours scholarships and five WiF PhD top-up scholarships to seven outstanding students from diverse backgrounds.

“I enjoyed my time working with FLEET because it has deepened my understanding in an essential topic to the progress of technology. I thought I would never be capable to work in an environment full of such brilliant minds,” says Jessica Alves, the first recipient of the WiF Honours scholarship. Jessica is now pursuing a PhD program working on three-dimensional laser lithography at Queensland University of Technology.

Jessica Alves, Monash University - first recipient of the Women in FLEET Honours scholarship

The most recent recipient of a WiF PhD top-up scholarship is Maedehsadat Mousavi, a materials science engineer with a background in nanotechnology. Maedehsadat joined FLEET from Iran following a master’s degree in pharmaceutical engineering and is currently investigating liquid-metal-assisted synthesis and applications of topological insulators for her PhD project with Chief Investigator Prof Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh at UNSW. Still in her first year of the PhD program, Maedehsadat has already co-authored three research publications and has another first-authored paper under preparation.