Celine Boehm wins AIP Women in Leadership Medal

Congratulations Celine Boehm on winning the Australian Institute of Physics 2022 Women in Leadership Medal.

The award recognises Professor Boehm's excellence in academic research and leadership of large international collaborations, her distinguished role in shaping astroparticle physics research in Australia, exemplary academic mentorship and her outstanding performance as a Head of School of Physics at the University of Sydney.

Her input in this position resulted in an inclusive, supportive and transparent workplace environment, and, notably, a significant increase in the number of female academics and professional staff and mid and early career researchers in leadership roles.

Professor Boehm is an astroparticle physicist who works both in cosmology/astrophysics and particle physics.

She obtained her PhD in 2001 at Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris on the impact of dark matter microphysics on the formation of large-scale-structures in the universe.

After a fellowship in Oxford and another at CERN, she was awarded a research position at CNRS in Annecy, where she stayed for a few years before moving to Durham University in 2011.

In 2018 Professor Boehm joined the University of Sydney as only the second woman to be Head of School for Physics in the school's history.