Victoria Professor wins James Cook Research Fellowship

Professor Matt Visser, from the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Operations Research, has been awarded one of four prestigious James Cook Research Fellowships providing funding of $110,000 a year for two years.

He will research the mathematics based on Einstein’s theory of general relativity and its interface with quantum physics.

The Fellowships are awarded to researchers who they have achieved national and international recognition in their area of scientific research.

Professor Visser will take up the Fellowship in 2012.