Lessons from Curiosity-Driven Physics Research

Associate Professor Suzie Sheehy is a physicist, science communicator and academic whose research addresses both curiosity-driven and applied areas. She leads the accelerator physics group at the University of Melbourne, developing new particle accelerators for applications in medicine. She is the current director of the Australian Collaboration for Accelerator Science (ACAS) and holds a Visiting Lectureship at the University of Oxford. She has held prestigious research fellowships from the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 and the Royal Society.

Suzie is also an award-winning speaker, author, and science communicator, dedicated to bringing stories of science and scientists to the wider community. Her 2018 TED talk on ‘The Case for Curiosity Driven Research’ has been viewed almost 2 million times, and her acclaimed popular science book ‘The Matter of Everything: Twelve Experiments that Changed Our World’, has been published worldwide in 12 languages.

Host or Publisher Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria