{"id":1327,"date":"2022-04-20T08:50:32","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T22:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bqi.com.au\/?post_type=event&p=1327"},"modified":"2024-02-20T14:24:51","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T04:24:51","slug":"2022_overseas_fellow_erica_barlow","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.bqi.com.au\/event\/2022_overseas_fellow_erica_barlow\/","title":{"rendered":"BQI is pleased to award Dr. Erica Barlow the inaugural BQI Overseas Fellow for 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

The BQI Overseas Fellowship is designed to support outstanding young Australian researchers investigating the Big Questions of Science at overseas world leading institutions.\u00a0 The Fellowship funds travel between Australia and overseas and is intended to maintain and strengthen links between the BQI Fellow and their alma mater, facilitating collaboration and idea sharing about the Big Questions of Science.<\/p>\r\n

BQI Director Darren Dougan said he was excited that the inaugural Fellowship had been awarded to such an outstanding young Australian researcher. \u201cErica is conducting fascinating research aimed at detecting life \u2018as we don\u2019t know it\u2019, investigating agnostic biosignatures, or signs of fossilised life in rocks that aren\u2019t limited by assumptions of Earth-based life,\u201d said Mr. Dougan.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019re thrilled that the Fellowship will allow Erica to return to Australia several times over the next few years to discuss and update us on her ground-breaking research\u201d.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Dr. Erica Barlow<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Dr. Barlow works in the laboratory of Prof. Chris House at Penn State University, at the world-renowned Laboratory for Agnostic Biosignatures (LAB), which is investigating ways to detect as-yet unrecognised \u2013 truly alien \u2013 forms of life elsewhere in the Universe. Dr. Barlow is funded through the NASA Postdoctoral Program and is a graduate of UNSW\u2019s Australian Centre for Astrobiology.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

\u201cI\u2019m excited to be returning to Sydney and to UNSW to deliver a talk on campus about my research.\u00a0 The ACA is an exceptional centre of learning and I look forward to continuing my association with the ACA,\u201d said Dr. Barlow.\u00a0 \u201cAnd I hope to return many times more in the future.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Dr. Barlow will be giving a talk at UNSW at the AGSM Colonial Theatre, 27 April 2022 at 4pm. <\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The talk will be live streamed and you can tune into it via Microsoft Teams<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n