Professor Gerd Schroeder-Turk
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Murdoch University
Perth, WA, Australia
Expertise
Biological physics, optical modelling, computational modelling, statistical physics, soft matter, materials geometry, geometry, computational geometry, packing problems, bioinspired materials, geometric structure in nature, pattern formation, materials science, biological materials, structure formation, Gyroid phases, nanostructures, nanoengineering, granular materials, packing problems, self-assembly, self-organisation, photonics, gyroid photonics, biophotonics, Voronoi diagrams, tessellations, tomographic analysis, honeycombs,University governance, international education, tertiary sector policy and strategy
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In relation to tertiary sector practices, university governance and international student education: https://gerdschroeder-turk.org/highereducation/
In relation to my research in natural science and physics: https://gerdschroeder-turk.org/my-science-in-the-news/
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Biography
Prof Gerd Schröder-Turk holds a PhD degree from the Australian National University, for his thesis “Skeletons in the Labyrinth”. He has held academic appointments in theoretical physics and applied maths departments at the Australian National University, the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg and Murdoch University. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the recipient of the 2014 Emmy-Noether-Prize, the 2019 Camurus Lipid Research Foundation Fellowship award and the 2023 Allan Schoen Award. He is currently a Professor at Murdoch University and an Honorary Associate Professor at the Australian National University. Aside from his teaching and research roles, he takes a keen interest in higher education policy and university governance, and has held roles as Senate member of Murdoch University and in the National Executive of the Australian Institute of Physics. He was named in 2019 amongst the Times Higher Education ‘People of the Year’, in the context of his appearance in a 2019 Four Corners program on international education practices.Personal info
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Gender:
Male
Languages besides English:
German
ResearcherID/ORCID iD:
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5093-415X
Last updated: 12 Feb 2025