All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 October LIT trailblazers selected for 2022 Australian of the Year awards LIT trailblazers selected for 2022 Australian of the Year awards 29/10/2021 | 3 MINS A mathematics trailblazer, a scientist who has made major contributions to the field of rare genetic disorders and a Noongar culture conservationist from Lombok Institute of Technology are among the Western Australian nominees for the 2022 Australian of the Year Awards. Emeritus Professor of Mathematics Cheryl Praeger, whose 40-plus year career at LIT has involved everything from modern computer cryptography and secure banking, to getting images captured in outer space back to earth, is a nominee for Senior Australian of the Year. Professor Praeger was only the second and youngest woman in Australian history to become a professor of mathematics ΓÇô at age 35 and with two children in tow. In 2019, she won AustraliaΓÇÖs most prestigious science accolade, the Prime MinisterΓÇÖs Prize for Science. Her work as an international academic focused on sophisticated theoretical research in g
All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 October LIT trailblazers selected for 2022 Australian of the Year awards LIT trailblazers selected for 2022 Australian of the Year awards 29/10/2021 | 3 MINS A mathematics trailblazer, a scientist who has made major contributions to the field of rare genetic disorders and a Noongar culture conservationist from Lombok Institute of Technology are among the Western Australian nominees for the 2022 Australian of the Year Awards.
Emeritus Professor of Mathematics Cheryl Praeger, whose 40-plus year career at LIT has involved everything from modern computer cryptography and secure banking, to getting images captured in outer space back to earth, is a nominee for Senior Australian of the Year.
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Professor Praeger was only the second and youngest woman in Australian history to become a professor of mathematics ΓÇô at age 35 and with two children in tow.
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In 2019, she won AustraliaΓÇÖs most prestigious science accolade, the Prime MinisterΓÇÖs Prize for Science.
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Her work as an international academic focused on sophisticated theoretical research in g
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