Careers Q&A in 2009

Martin Cole takes over as chief of food and nutritional sciences at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Australia in January 2010.

Jorge Gardea-Torresdey of the University of Texas-El Paso received the 2009 Distinguished Scientist Award from the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans.

Next February, Richard Olds will begin his tenure as dean of the planned new medical school at the University of California, Riverside. The school is due to open in 2012.

Based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Widnall is the winner of the Arthur M. Bueche Award for expanding opportunities for women and minorities in engineering.

An ecologist at the University of Western Sydney, Australia, Anderson has won the first annual ProSPER.NET-Scopus Young Scientist award for agriculture and natural resources.

A particle physicist at the University of Manchester, UK, Söldner-Rembold is the latest spokesperson elected to co-coordinate the D0 experiment, an exploration of the subatomic universe that started in 1992 at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois.

A chemist at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Matyjaszewski is the winner of this year's Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge academic award.

An expert in the molecular mechanisms of taste, Margolskee recently accepted a faculty position at the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

First director of the Centre for Systems Biology in Luxembourg.

Incoming director of the National Laboratory in Gran Sasso, Italy.

Inaugural chief of the Division of Biomedical Informatics at the University of California, San Diego.

Incoming member of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) in London

Founding director of the new German Centre for Neurodegenerative Diseases in Bonn, Germany.

Jeffrey Sturchio will continue to build bridges to health in his new role.

Blinded in 1984, geographer Reginald Golledge was this year named Faculty Research Lecturer by the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Top physicist takes over as dean at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard.

New BBSRC chief will move science forward with help from the Internet.