Kathryn member in the Global Young Academy

Kathryn Crowe, Postdoc in Speech Pathology at the University of Iceland, has been accepted as a member in the Global Young Academy.

The Global Young Academy (GYA) provides a rallying point for outstanding young scientists from around the world to come together to address topics of global importance. GYA has around 200 members, aged 30 – 40 years old and several years past their doctoral studies. 

Memberships are offered based on scientific excellence, after a process of nominations from senior scientists, national societies, and self-nominations, together with peer review by members. The membership is five years.  

Kathryn finished her PhD degree from Charles Sturt University in Australia in 2013. Since then she has had Postdoc positions with the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York and the University of Cophenhagen. Kathryn has had a Postdoc position with the University of Iceland Faculty of Medicine since 2019. Her reserach is focused on speech and language disorders, hearing loss and mulitlingualism.  

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The aim of GYA is to bring together young scientists to solve global problems and policy issues that require interdisciplinary expertise, encourage young people to enter scientific careers, promote a scientific culture in which excellence in research is more highly valued than seniority, and improve the foundations of science worldwide by providing encouragement and recognition to researchers in countries with underdeveloped national scientific programs.