The University of Western Australia has a continual roll call of awards, scholarships and prizes presented to staff and students.
To recognise these achievements, an article is published on the on the website and in on the first week of every month. If you know of great awards or achievements across the University please email
Name: Cheryl Praeger
Achievement: Emeritus Professor Cheryl Praeger, from UWA’s School of Physics, Mathematics and Computing, has been named an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications.
The awarded is given to an individual who has made pre-eminent contributions to combinatorics or its applications.
Professor Praeger’s research has focused on finite groups and their actions on graphs, designs, geometries, codes, and linear spaces. She has published six monographs and nearly 450 journal articles across a wide range of topics.
The Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications is an international scholarly society established to promote the development of combinatorics and of encouraging publications and conferences in combinatorics and its applications.
Image: Emeritus Professor Cheryl Praeger.
Name: Aaron Robotham, Kate Harbourne and Sabine Bellstedt
Achievement: Three researchers from the UWA node at ICRAR have been honoured for their contributions to astronomy at the 2024 Astronomical Society of Australia Awards (ASA).
Associate Professor Aaron Robotham received the Anne Green Medal for his work developing ProTools, an astronomy software solution used to process data at ICRAR and other astronomy organisations globally. The software has been integral in projects involving the Hubble Space Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope.
Dr Kate Harbourne was recognised with the Prize for Astronomy Software Development for her creation of SimSpin software which enabled users to build simulated galaxies which could be compared with real observations, aiding in understanding the astrophysical drivers of galaxy evolution.
And Dr Sabine Bellstedt received a highly commended award for the Louise Webster Prize, acknowledging her outstanding post-doctoral research.
