Associate Professor Suzie Sheehy(University of Melbourne) has been awarded the Physics Communication Award, recognising her “narrative-based, human-centric approach to engage millions of readers, viewers and listeners throughout her career-long commitment to physics communication, raising the profile of physics with audiences of a diverse range of ages and backgrounds in Australia and internationally”.

When she’s not developing new particle accelerators for applications in medicine, she is communicating science to the masses. Her 2018 TED talk has been viewed over 1.8M times and she has been an expert TV presenter for a number of Discovery Channel shows including four seasons of Impossible Engineering. Suzie has shared real-life demonstrations and experiments with hundreds of thousands of audience members. In 2022 she published her first popular science book: The Matter of Everything: Twelve Experiments that Changed Our World (Bloomsbury).