October 12, 2022Australian research is deeply enriched through international collaborations. Research collaborations beyond national borders allow the exchange of knowledge to overcome society’s biggest challenges, including creating sustainable energy, feeding the world and improving chronic disease outcomes. To demonstrate how longstanding scientific relationships between Australia and China are advancing science, the Academy, supported by the National Foundation for Australia–China Relations, has created a series of videos on this topic in both English and simplified Chinese. Each video features scientists from Australia or China highlighting their work and how it is enhanced via international collaboration, illustrating the depth and breadth of joint research efforts across a range of disciplines. One video in this series explains how Australia’s experience with the CSIRO Parkes Radio telescope attracted Chinese scientists to choose to work with Australians to help design and build FAST – the Five-Hundred-Meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope – located in China. Academy Fellow and CSIRO astrophysicist, Professor Elaine Sadler AO FAA, has been working with Chinese scientists for over seven years. She said, “I think one of the great things about working collaboratively with people is that it allows you to build up the trust and the common interests that allow you to…
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Science Beyond Borders: Australian–Chinese science in the spotlight
