Dr. Gail Iles
Associate Professor
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College: School of Science
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Department: School of Science
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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gail.iles@rmit.edu.au
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
About
Awards
- Female Space Leader of the Year - Enterprise, 2024 Australian Space Awards
- Outreach Certificate of Excellence, RMIT School of Science, 2018
- WISE Champion Award - Awarded to organisations and individuals who have particularly inspired girls and young women into STEM education and related careers. Unlimited Theatre was awarded for a wide programme of work between 2010-11 with Dr Gail Iles, UK, 2011
- Bronze Medal - Awarded for 500 Parabolas flown on board the A300 Zero-G Airbus, Novespace, 2011
- Research Fellowship, European Space Agency, 2007
Research fields
- 510904 Solar system energetic particles
- 510906 Space instrumentation
- 510404 Electronic and magnetic properties of condensed matter; superconductivity
- 370505 Mineralogy and crystallography
- 370507 Planetary geology
- 370602 Electrical and electromagnetic methods in geophysics
- 510401 Condensed matter characterisation technique development
- 510406 Structural properties of condensed matter
- 510905 Solar system planetary science (excl. planetary geology)
- 511001 Accelerators
- 510703 Particle physics
UN sustainable development goals
- 9 Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
Academic positions
- Associate Professor
- RMIT University
- Physics
- Melbourne, Australia
- 1 Jan 2024 – Present
- Senior Lecturer
- RMIT University
- Physics
- Melbourne, Australia
- 1 Jan 2020 – 31 Dec 2023
- Visiting Lecturer
- Kyushu University
- Aeronautics and Astronautics
- Fukuoka, Japan
- 1 Jan 2020 – 3 Feb 2020
- Lecturer
- RMIT University
- Physics
- Melbourne, Australia
- 8 May 2017 – 31 Dec 2019
- Visiting Fellow
- Australian National University
- Nuclear Physics
- Canberra, Australia
- 1 Jul 2015 – 30 Jun 2017
Non-academic positions
- Instrument Scientist
- ANSTO
- Sydney, Australia
- 2014 – 2017
- Instrument Scientist
- HZB
- Berlin, Germany
- 2012 – 2014
- Astronaut Instructor
- at European Astronaut Centre, Cologne
- , Germany
- 2010 – 2011
- Instrument Scientist
- Institut Laue-Langevin
- Diffraction Group
- Grenoble, France
- 1 Sep 2009 – 31 Dec 2009
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- European Space Agency
- Paris, France
- 3 Sep 2007 – 31 Aug 2009
Supervisor projects
- RADICALS an electromagnetic shield for the protection of astronauts against space radiation
- 26 Feb 2024
- Development, modelling, and testing of an electromagnetic radiation shield for deployment on crewed spacecraft
- 18 Jan 2024
- Data assimilation in Thermosphere-Ionosphere models to enhance satellite drag prediction
- 12 Dec 2022
- Food perception during spaceflight from Earth
- 28 Oct 2022
- An evaluation of supervised and semi-supervised Machine Learning algorithms for Space Situational Awareness
- 31 Jan 2022
- Lightweight Ground Penetrating Radar devices for operation in space
- 22 Nov 2021
- Neutron and X-ray characterisation of Lunar and Martian minerals
- 15 Dec 2020
- Active Radiation Shielding Materials
- 19 Dec 2019
Teaching interests
Undergraduate Teaching
- Nuclear Physics
- Solid State Physics
- Space Exploration
- Microgravity Science
Research interests
Condensed Matter Physics, Nanotechnology, Physical Chemistry (incl. Structural), Geology, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Inorganic Chemistry
- Space radiation physics
- Microgravity phenomena and instrumentation
- Neutron and X-ray diffraction and spectroscopy
- Human spaceflight
- Magnetic nanoparticles
