Congratulations to Global Australian Award Winner in Education and Research, Ed Galea. Professor Galea is currently the founding d...
Published on December 17, 2025
Congratulations to Global Australian Award Winner in Education and Research, Ed Galea. Professor Galea is currently the founding director of the Fire Safety Engineering Group (FSEG) and the Centre for Safety, Resilience and Protective Security (CSRPS) of the University of Greenwich in London. He has done incredible things in his career and has served on several major inquiries and legal cases as an expert in fire and evacuation including the Paddington Rail Crash, the Swissair MD11 crash, and the Admiral Duncan Pub bombing. He is currently serving as an expert on the Grenfell Tower Fire Inquiry. Among his many awards and honours are the 2001 British Computer Society Gold Medal, 2002 Queen’s Anniversary Prize, 2006 and 2018 Royal Aeronautical Society Gold Award, 2013 Royal Institution of Naval Architects Medal of Distinction, and the 2014 The Guardian University Award for Research Impact. A truly impressive career and a fantastic example of Australians doing amazing things globally. Congratulations Ed! Doing Australia proud.