{"id":6707,"date":"2018-05-19T06:07:14","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T22:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/researchers-focus-professor-phil-bland\/"},"modified":"2022-12-07T13:08:34","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T05:08:34","slug":"researchers-focus-professor-phil-bland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/researchers-focus-professor-phil-bland\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers in focus: Professor Phil Bland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Professor Phil Bland, whose numerous achievements in planetary science as Director of the Desert Fireball Network and Director of SSERVI Australia has seen him awarded the title of John Curtin Distinguished Professor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCareer highlights include having an asteroid named after me, winning a Royal Society University Research Fellowship and an ARC Laureate Fellowship, watching the launch of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft as a member of the science team; and finding a meteorite.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watch our interview:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Professor Phil Bland | Taking Curtin into orbit!\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZlDHqYREjkY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Phil Bland\u2019s achievements in planetary science as Director of the Desert Fireball Network and of SSERVI Australia has seen him awarded the title of John Curtin Distinguished Professor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4275,"featured_media":6708,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_research-areas":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,40],"tags":[],"research-areas":[],"class_list":["post-6707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-and-global-community","category-technology"],"acf":{"post_options":{"":null,"additional_content":{"title":"Â鶹ֱ²¥ John Curtin Distinguished Professors","content":"<p>The title of <a href=\"https:\/\/secretariat.curtin.edu.au\/awards\/distinguished-visiting-professor.cfm\">John Curtin Distinguished Professor<\/a> is Curtin\u2019s highest honour for academic staff. 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