Corey Bradshaw wins Life Sciences & Biological Sciences category at Scopus Young Researcher of the Year Awards.

Professor Corey Bradshaw will tonight be presented with the Life Sciences and Biological Sciences category award at the inaugural Scopus Young Researcher of the Year Awards. The award, to be presented by Senator Kim Carr, Federal Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, aims to recognise and encourage Australia’s best researchers aged 40 and under, judged by their research output, the impact of their research and other contributions.

Professor Bradshaw is Director of Ecological Modelling at the Environment Institute and holds a joint position with the South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI). He is a conservation biologist who uses mathematical modelling to understand the complex interactions between plant and animal species within an ecosystem.

Corey’s blog, ConservationBytes.com was recently ranked 12th for all sites on GreenTopSites.com. Conservation Bytes is getting over 180 visits a day. Green Top Sites provides a ranked list of all the best green websites on the internet, rankings are based on the number of people who visit the sites each day.

Corey’s achievements were profiled in today’s Higher Education supplement in the Australian,

“In naming him the Scopus young researcher of the year in the life sciences and biological sciences category, the judging panel says his modelling work has added “significant new perspectives and rigour” to his field.”

to read the article, click here.

Tanya Monro of IPAS was a finalist in the Physics category, to read who else within the University of Adelaide was honoured at the Scopus awards, click here.

The Environment Institute would like to congratulate Corey on this outstanding achievement!