Working with leading Australian and international research partners
FLEET is developing new networks with major national and international centres and research programs, strengthening research to achieve global competitiveness and recognition for Australian research.
FLEET has more than doubled its links with aligned national and international research institutions, and the Centre’s 25 new collaborating organisations include 11 new Partner Investigators and 16 new research associate investigators.
Research relationships are enabled by ensuring a strong presence of Centre personnel at national and international conferences in FLEET fields, seeking out potential research partners through collaborative visits and inviting high-profile researchers in the field to share their work at FLEET colloquia and scientific workshops.
With those international links impacted by Covid in 2020–21, FLEET initiated and co-hosts the transpacific colloquium series, which has linked Australian and North American condensed-matter and cold-atom research communities via 22 colloquia so far.
FLEET has facilitated 25 national and 12 international science conferences and workshops. FLEET has brought three international conferences to Australia for the first time, hosting the International Conferences on 2D Materials and Technologies (2018) and Spontaneous Coherence in Excitonic Systems (2020) and the Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics Workshop on Multiferroics (2021). These showcases for Australia’s strength in advanced materials and physics have further cemented connections between FLEET and leading international experts (see Collaboration at FLEET).
Along the way, the Centre’s students and early-career researchers (ECRs) have had opportunities to meet and hear from pioneers in the field, including:
As a result of FLEET’s network building, collaborative publications (those involving multiple CIs/AIs/PIs/nodes) make up 61% of all FLEET publications, and these publications are 13% more likely to be high impact (IF > 7).