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Gillian Hirth

Gillian Anne Hirth or Gillian A Hirth is a Health Scientist, CEO of ARPANSA,[1] and was awarded an Order of Australia for "service to environmental science, nuclear and radiation safety and the development of national and international regulatory standards",[2] and who worked with the UN following the Fukushima accident, advising on environmental radiology.[3]

Gillian Anne Hirth
EducationPhD
EmployerARPANSA
Known forRadiation safety

Education and Career

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Hirth gradated in 1999, with a PhD in environmental radiochemistry. She then worked at ANSTO as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow from 2000 to 2003.[4] After her position at ANSTO, Dr Hirth then worked in the Australian Defence Organisation in the field of hazardous materials and evironmental management.[5][6]

Hirth was previously Chief Radiation Health Scientist of ARPANSA,[7] and at at July 2024, is CEO of ARPANSA, the Australian Radiation Protection Society, and from 2020 to 2023 she was a member of the Commission on Safety Standards of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). She is also on the Board of Council of the International Union of Radioecology.[8] Hirth was Chair of the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation for 2019 to 2020.[9]

Hirth's career has involved developing safety codes and standards, including radionuclide activity concentrations in wildlife in ecosystems around uranium mining.[10][11]

Publication

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Hirth has published on radiation safety, radionuclide activity, and on the radiation levels in wildlife in uranium mining ecosystems.

  • Hirth, Gillian. (2014). "A review of existing Australian radionuclide activity concentration data in non-human biota inhabiting uranium environments." Australia.[12]
  • Hirth, Gillian A., Mathew P. Johansen, Julia G. Carpenter, Andreas Bollhöfer, Nicholas A. Beresford. (2017). Whole-organism concentration ratios in wildlife inhabiting Australian uranium mining environments, Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, Volumes 178–179, P 385-393,.[13]
  • Hirth, Gillian, Grzechnik, Marcus, & Ainsworth, Anthony (2017). Improving public health relating to ultra-violet radiation exposure – innovations and plans at ARPANSA. ARPS2017 Conference Handbook Science and the Art of Radiation Protection: Broadening the Horizon, (p. 100). Australia.[14]

Awards

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  • 2024 - King's Birthday - Officer of the Order of Australia.[15]
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References

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  1. ^ "ARPANSA".
  2. ^ "Awards".
  3. ^ "The Many Different Pathways of STEMM - The Royal Society of Victoria". rsv.org.au. 2023-07-04. Retrieved 2024-07-20.
  4. ^ "Dr Gillian Hirth – 2024 ARPS". Retrieved 2024-07-20.
  5. ^ "The Many Different Pathways of STEMM - The Royal Society of Victoria". rsv.org.au. 2023-07-04. Retrieved 2024-07-20.
  6. ^ "Science Victoria" (PDF).
  7. ^ "Chittering" (PDF).
  8. ^ "Dr Gillian Hirth – 2024 ARPS". Retrieved 2024-07-20.
  9. ^ "Transparency Portal". www.transparency.gov.au. Retrieved 2024-07-20.
  10. ^ "Dr Gillian Hirth – 2024 ARPS". Retrieved 2024-07-20.
  11. ^ "Industry.Gov".
  12. ^ Hirth, Gillian (2014-05-15). "A review of existing Australian radionuclide activity concentration data in non-human biota inhabiting uranium environments". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  13. ^ Hirth, Gillian A.; Johansen, Mathew P.; Carpenter, Julia G.; Bollhöfer, Andreas; Beresford, Nicholas A. (2017-11). "Whole-organism concentration ratios in wildlife inhabiting Australian uranium mining environments". Journal of Environmental Radioactivity. 178–179: 385–393. doi:10.1016/j.jenvrad.2017.04.007. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  14. ^ "INIS Repository Search - Citation". inis.iaea.org. Retrieved 2024-07-20.
  15. ^ "Honours. Uni Melb".
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