The University of Western Australia has a continual roll call of awards, scholarships and prizes presented to staff and students.
To recognise these achievements, an article is published on the UWA news page on the website and in UWA Forward on the first week of every month. If you know of great awards or achievements across the University please email
Name: Mike Tobar
Achievement: Professor Michael Tobar from UWA’s School of Physics, Maths and Computing has won the prestigious European Frequency and Time Award, which recognises outstanding contributions in all fields covered by the EFTF either for fundamental advances or important applications. Professor Tobar, an expert in quantum technology and dark matter, took out the award “for the development of precision frequency and measurement technology and its application to oscillators, clocks, precision sensing and testing fundamental physics”. The EFTF Award has been bestowed since 1993 – first biannually, and from 2005, annually.
