US-based Australian Professor JilLian Banfield is among the five winners of the 2011 L'Oreal-UNESCO Awards announced in November by Professor Ahmed Zewail, President of the L'Oreal-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards Jury. Professor Banfield is Professor of Earth and Planetary Science, of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, and of Materials Science and Engineering, at the University of California, Berkeley, US. She won for her work on bacterial and material behaviour under extreme conditions relevant to the environment and the Earth.
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