21st Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference - Women in Fluid Mechanics Lunch

Fixing the Pipeline: Addressing gender equity in fluid mechanics

The Women in Fluid Mechanics sub-committee would like to invite you to a panel discussion addressing gender equity within the Australasian Fluid Mechanics environment. Please join us, and our Panel, as we explore the current landscape of gender equity within our community including; inhibitors to greater female engagement, barriers to success, attrition at the mid-career level and mechanisms to achieve gender parity within our scientific community. The panel discussion will be moderated by WiFM Bianca Capra and Emilie Sauret.

This panel discussion marks the inaugural AFMC WiFM event. The sub-committee would like to extent the invitation to all conference delegates.

Date: Monday 10^th December
Time: 12 – 12:50pm. Please arrive at 11:45 for lunch prior to start.
Room: Riverbank Room 6

Our Panel


Professor Ellen Longmire	Professor Yvonne Stokes	Dr Danielle Moreau	Dr Maryam Abdolahpour
University of Minnesota	University of Adelaide	UNSW Sydney	University of Western Australia
Ellen received an A.B. in physics from Princeton University and M.S. and Ph.D degrees in mechanical engineering from Stanford University. Since 1990, she has taught and directed research in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics at the University of Minnesota. She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and received the UM Distinguished Women Scholars Award, the McKnight Land-Grant Professorship, and the NSF National Young Investigator Award. She currently serves as an Editor-in-Chief for Experiments in Fluids.	Yvonne is an ARC Future Fellow and Professor in the School of Mathematical Sciences at The University of Adelaide. She completed her BSc in Mathematics and Computer Science at Murdoch University, and Honours in Applied Mathematics at the University of Adelaide. Yvonne completed her PhD in Applied Mathematics. Yvonne is a member of the Australian Academy of Science National Committee for Mechanical and Engineering Sciences and the Chair of the Women in Mathematics Special Interest Group (WiMSIG) of the Australian Mathematical Society.	Danielle is a lecturer in the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at UNSW Sydney. She obtained her BE(hons) and PhD from the School of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Adelaide in 2005 and 2010, respectively. Danielle’s research is in the field of aeroacoustics and focuses on the understanding and control of flow-induced noise to aid the design of quiet modern technologies such as submarines, wind turbines and aircraft.	Maryam is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia. She has a B.Eng and a Master’s degree in Hydraulics Engineering. Before starting her PhD, Maryam worked as a Hydraulic Engineer at the Department of Hydraulic Structures (WRI, Iran) where she was the first (and the only) female during their entire history (over the past 45 years). Maraym obtained her PhD in 2017 from UWA, after which she worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Ocean Engineering group of the University of Melbourne, where (again) I was the only female academic her this group. Her research covers a broad spectrum of eco-hydraulics and environmental fluid mechanics with a focus on turbulence, mixing in complex systems, particle dynamics and wave-current interactions.

Presented by the Women in Fluid Mechanics Sub-Committee members: Bianca Capra (Chair), Emilie Sauret, Nicole Jones and Daniel Eddington-Mitchell with support by the AFMS Society, and the local organising committee of the 21^st AFMC.