Joanne Etheridge

Joanne Etheridge is an Australian physicist. She is Director of the Monash Centre for Electron Microscopy and Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Monash University.

Academic career Etheridge graduated with a BSc from the University of Melbourne and a PhD in physics from RMIT University in 1993. In 1994 she moved to the University of Cambridge as Rosalind Franklin Research Fellow, Newnham College and in 1997 became a senior research associate in the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy there. From 1999 to 2003 she was Royal Society University Research Fellow in the same department. From 2005 to 2008 she was also a visiting professor at the Brockhouse Institute at McMaster University.

She returned to Monash University in Melbourne to set up and lead the Monash Centre for Electron Microscopy, As of 2021 she is on the Editorial Board of the international journal, Ultramicroscopy.

Awards and recognition

Etheridge won the University of Cambridge's K. M. Stott Prize in 1995 In 2012 she presented the Lloyd Rees Lecture of the Australian Academy of Science.

In 2019 she was elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science.

In 2022 she was named the Australian Research Council Georgina Sweet Australian Laureate Fellow.

In 2024, she was awarded the Australian Institute of Physics' Walter Boas Medal for Excellence in Research, for her "development of electron scattering methods to determine the structure of condensed matter at the atomic scale and the application of these methods to understand structure–property relationships in functional materials".

Selected works