Increasing its 2004 position by moving up two places, Monash came in ahead of John Hopkins University, McGill University and the University of California, San Diego.
Monash Science ranked fourth highest of the Australian universities, behind the Australian National University (13), the University of Melbourne (32) and the University of Sydney (37).
Monash is a member of the prestigious Group of Eight (Go8) universities, recognised for excellence in teaching, learning, research and graduate outcomes. The Go8 undertakes 70 per cent of all research conducted in Australian universities and more than half of all basic research conducted throughout Australia. |
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Dr Bayden Wood, a researcher at Monash's Centre for Biospectroscopy, uses synchrotron infrared light to conduct research into the chemical components of individual pre-cancerous cells in humans, research that could be used to develop a new diagnostic tool for cervical cancer. |
- Environmental and Green Chemistry
- Synthesis and Medicinal Chemistry
- Analytical Science
- Materials Chemistry
- Ecology and conservation biology
- Functional biology of plants and algae
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- Astrophysics and general relativity
- Atmospheric science and geophysical fluid dynamics
- Statistics and Stochastic Processes
- Condensed matter physics
- Synchrotron Science, X-ray physics and imaging
- Geodynamics, ore deposits, and crustal evolution
- Geospatial Imaging and Environmental geoscience
- Geophysical methods and analysis
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