Rate My Professor Joanne Etheridge

Joanne Etheridge is Professor (Research) in the School of Physics and Astronomy, Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgina Sweet Australian Laureate Fellow, and Science Director of the Monash Centre for Electron Microscopy at Monash University. She earned a B.Sc. (Hons I) in Physics from the University of Melbourne and a PhD in Physics from RMIT University. Etheridge joined Monash in 2002 as a Senior Lecturer and led the establishment of the Monash Centre for Electron Microscopy, advancing to Associate Professor by 2010 and full Professor thereafter. Prior to Monash, from 1993 to 2002, she held positions at the University of Cambridge Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy and Newnham College, including Royal Society University Research Fellow (1998-2003), Rosalind Franklin Research Fellow (1994-1997), Senior Research Associate (1997-1998), and Postdoctoral Research Fellow (1993-1994). She served as Visiting Professor at Brockhouse Institute, McMaster University (2005-2008), and Visiting Fellow at Oxford University, Corpus Christi College (April-July 2024).

Etheridge's research develops new methods for determining atomic-scale structure and electronic structure of materials using electron microscopy and diffraction, applying them to structure-property relationships in functional materials such as nanomaterials, perovskites, nanoparticles, and sustainable energy materials. Her work contributes to UN SDGs 7 (Affordable and Clean Energy) and 9 (Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure). Key publications include "T1 precipitate stacks in an Al-Cu-Li-Mg-Ag alloy" (2026, Journal of Materials Science and Technology), "Distribution of Ag and Mg in T1 precipitate plates in an Al-Cu-Li-Mg-Ag alloy" (2025, Acta Materialia), "Unsupervised deep denoising for four-dimensional scanning transmission electron microscopy" (2024, npj Computational Materials), and "A symmetry-derived mechanism for atomic resolution imaging" (2020, PNAS). With over 120 outputs, her research has earned awards including the ARC Georgina Sweet Laureate Fellowship (2022, $3.2 million), Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (2019), Walter Boas Medal (2024), John Sanders Medal (2016), and KM Stott Prize (1995). She serves on editorial boards of Physical Review Materials, Microscopy, Accounts of Materials Research, and Ultramicroscopy, chaired the Australian Academy of Science National Committee for Materials Science and Engineering (2019-2024), was President of the Australian Materials Research Society, and contributed to committees like the International Union of Crystallographers Commission on Electron Crystallography (2007-2014).