{"id":5883,"date":"2021-12-09T21:59:52","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T21:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/apvi.org.au\/solar-research-conference\/?page_id=5883"},"modified":"2026-01-25T21:43:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T21:43:07","slug":"monica-oliphant-prize","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/apvi.org.au\/solar-research-conference\/monica-oliphant-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Monica Oliphant Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\nExemplary Energy<\/strong> has great pleasure in supporting the <strong>Monica Oliphant Award of $500 for Outstanding Poster\u00a0<\/strong>for female\u00a0Honours,\u00a0Masters\u00a0or\u00a0PhD students.<\/p>\n<p>The 2025 winner was:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-8123 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/apvi.org.au\/solar-research-conference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Vu-Phuong-Anh-Ho.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"134\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apvi.org.au\/solar-research-conference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Vu-Phuong-Anh-Ho.png 323w, https:\/\/apvi.org.au\/solar-research-conference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Vu-Phuong-Anh-Ho-243x300.png 243w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 134px) 100vw, 134px\" \/>Anh Vu Phuong Ho<\/strong>, <em>Machine learning assisted contactless series resistance characterisation of solar cell<\/em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> (Swinburn University of Technology)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5899 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/apvi.org.au\/solar-research-conference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Monica-Oliphant.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"166\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apvi.org.au\/solar-research-conference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Monica-Oliphant.png 884w, https:\/\/apvi.org.au\/solar-research-conference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Monica-Oliphant-238x300.png 238w, https:\/\/apvi.org.au\/solar-research-conference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Monica-Oliphant-768x968.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 166px) 100vw, 166px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Monica Oliphant<\/strong> is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of South Australia and a University Fellow at Charles Darwin University. She also runs her own Consultancy, Monica Oliphant Research Scientist.<\/p>\n<p>She worked 18 years for the electricity utility ETSA as a Research Scientist in the areas of renewable energy and energy efficiency and was involved in the South Australian Government\u2019s wind resource assessment program in the late 1980s which put South Australia in a prime position for wind energy investment in the State that started about 15 years ago.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6572 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/apvi.org.au\/solar-research-conference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Exemplary-Energy-Logo_2021R.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"179\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apvi.org.au\/solar-research-conference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Exemplary-Energy-Logo_2021R.png 1188w, https:\/\/apvi.org.au\/solar-research-conference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Exemplary-Energy-Logo_2021R-267x300.png 267w, https:\/\/apvi.org.au\/solar-research-conference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Exemplary-Energy-Logo_2021R-768x864.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 179px) 100vw, 179px\" \/>She was President of the International Solar Energy Society 2008\/09 and in this capacity and as a current Board member of the Society has travelled the world speaking at Conferences and meetings usually identifying herself as both a Past President of ISES and as an Adjunct A\/Prof of the University of South Australia. In presentations she has been unashamedly proud of the status of renewable energy in South Australia and the work being done at the University in this area. She has contributed to projects at Mawson Lakes, Lochiel Park and others and is on the Strategic Management Committee of the Research Node of the CRC for Low Carbon Living.<\/p>\n<p>She has participated on many Australian Federal and State Government Committees, among them Australia\u2019s Mandatory Renewable Energy Target Review 2002\/03 that brought in the first incentives for residential solar photovoltaics (solar panels). She was later a Board Member of the South Australian Premier\u2019s Round Table in Sustainability and then RenewablesSA when the State Feed in Tariff was brought in.<\/p>\n<p>She received an AO in the 2015 Queen\u2019s Birthday Honours List in recognition of her work in Renewable Energy and was named 2016 Senior South Australian of the Year<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exemplary Energy has great pleasure in supporting the Monica Oliphant Award of $500 for Outstanding Poster\u00a0for female\u00a0Honours,\u00a0Masters\u00a0or\u00a0PhD students. The 2025 winner was: Anh Vu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5883","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apvi.org.au\/solar-research-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apvi.org.au\/solar-research-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apvi.org.au\/solar-research-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apvi.org.au\/solar-research-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apvi.org.au\/solar-research-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5883"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/apvi.org.au\/solar-research-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8345,"href":"https:\/\/apvi.org.au\/solar-research-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5883\/revisions\/8345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apvi.org.au\/solar-research-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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