nationality fields workplaces birth_date residence image article_title name alma_mater
australian physics -lrb- optical physics , photonics , sensing -rrb- university of south australia , university of adelaide 1973 adelaide tanya -lrb- ipas -rrb- - university of adelaide.jpg monro - institute for photonics and advanced sensing tanya monro
 tanya mary monro university of sydney
tanya monro

professor tanya mary monro faa ftse fosa faip gaicd -lrb- born 1973 -rrb- is an award-winning australian physicist known for her work in photonics .
she is currently the deputy vice chancellor , research and innovation -lrb- dvcr&i -rrb- at the university of south australia , and is an arc georgina sweet laureate fellow .
she was the inaugural chair of photonics , the inaugural director of the arc centre of excellence for nanoscale biophotonics and the inaugural director of the institute for photonics & advanced sensing -lrb- ipas -rrb- , and the inaugural director of the centre of expertise in photonics -lrb- coep -rrb- within the school of chemistry and physics at the university of adelaide -lrb- now known as the school of physical sciences -rrb- .
she is currently an adjunct professor of physics at the university of adelaide .
external roles include membership of the australian prime minister 's commonwealth science council , vice president of the australian academy of technological sciences and engineering -lrb- atse -rrb- , the south australian economic development board , and the adelaide riverbank authority .
