Confirmed Plenary Speakers

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2024 Shaw Prize winner in Astronomy for discovery of fast radio bursts

Australia

Matthew Bailes – Shaw Prize

2020 Nobel Laureate and 2008 Shaw Prize for the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole

Germany

Reinhard Genzel – Nobel Prize , Shaw Prize

2021 Shaw Prize winner in Astronomy for the contributions to the understanding of magnetars

Canada

Victoria M. Kaspi – Shaw Prize

2024 Shaw Prize winner in Astronomy for ground breaking discoveries in time domain astronomy

India

Shrinivas R Kulkarni – Shaw Prize

2025 Gruber cosmology prize for fundamental work on the universe’s Deuterium abundance and Baryon density

UK

Max Pettini – Gruber Cosmology Prize

2011 Nobel Laureate and 2006 Shaw prize, for the discovery of cosmic acceleration

Australia

Brian P. Schmidt – Nobel Prize, Shaw Prize


Professor in The University of Queensland (Astronomical surveys & Time Domain Astronomy)

Australia

Tamara Davis

Director of Center for AI Robotics in Space Sustainability, Co-Director of Space Science and Technology Institute (Space Sustainability)

Hong Kong SAR

Yang Gao

Director, KAVLI Institute of Astronomy (Upcoming astronomical facilities)

Beijing China

Luis C. Ho

Professor at Pusan National University (Cosmic ray acceleration at astrophysical shocks)

South Korea

Hyesung Kang

CSIRO’s Acting Chief Scientist and Deputy Director at CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science. Director SKA-Low telescope, Australia

Australia

Sarah Pearce

Winner of New Horizons Prize in Physics (The lifecycle of stars and their planets)

Chile

Laura Pérez

Professor at Novosibirsk Technical State University and deputy director of Institute of Laser Physics SBRAS (The lifecycle of stars and their planets)

Russia

Ildar F. Shaikhislamov