18 December 2006
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| Dr Stuart Batten is the 2006 winner of the Vice Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Research for Early Career Researchers. |
Dr Stuart Batten is the inaugural winner of the Vice Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Research for Early Career Researchers.
Following postdoctoral positions at Bristol, Melbourne and Monash, Dr Batten was awarded an Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship and then an Australian Research Fellowship, both at Monash.
Dr Batten, who has been promoted to senior lecturer in chemistry starting in 2007, is a leading researcher in crystal engineering, which aims to understand and control the way molecules assemble in solids. He has developed an international reputation in this field. Highlights include more than 100 publications, high citation rates (over 50 per published paper), extensive local and international collaborations, three separate national medals for research excellence, and significant research funding success.
"I'm thrilled to win this prestigious award, and commend Monash for instituting such recognition of early career researchers," Dr Batten said.
"The breadth and depth of ECR research across all the faculties was very impressive and these awards are a fantastic opportunity to showcase and encourage that talent."
Dr Batten has received other awards including the HG Andrewartha, Edgeworth David and Rennie Memorial medals. He was the inaugural recipient of the Faculty of Science Award for Excellence in Research by Early Career Researchers and, to add to the accolades, he has been awarded a 2006 Victorian Young Tall Poppy Science Award.
He has secured personal research funding to the amount of $1.2m since 1998, and he was Chief Investigator on grants of more than $3.5m. He has been awarded several ARC Discovery, LIEF and Research Networks grants, as well as research and postdoctoral fellowships and bursaries/grants to attend international conferences.
"This is an extraordinary performance for a university lecturer and I congratulate Stuart on his stellar performance," Science Dean Robert Norris said.
Other Faculty Early Career Research Recipients and 2006 Vice-Chancellor nominees were: Dr Daniel Palmer (Art and Design); Dr Jason Beringer (Arts); Dr Andrew Pirola-Merlo (Business and Economics); Dr Alex Kostogriz (Education); Dr Helen M G Watt (Education); Dr Kiyonori Suzuki (Engineering); Dr Manzur Murshed (Information and Technology); Dr Greg Taylor (Law); Dr Karen Moritz (Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences); Dr Tim Stinear (Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences); and Dr Ben Boyd (Victorian College of Pharmacy).
For more information please see the 2006 Vice-Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Research for Early Career Researchers brochure (pdf 5.8 mb) or the Monash Researchers internal web page (staff only). | 
