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The China Scholarship Council will award an unspecified number of post doctoratal scholarships at the University of New South Wales. The scholarships are for study under Dr Linlin Ge, a world renouned expert in the use of space-based interferometric synthetic aperture radar.

Ge is also the leader of the InSAR team at the Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information. CRC-SI is a government/private partnership that makes investments in advanced spatial technolgies.

His position is one of four CRC-SI Innovation Professorships. His position is funded through a partnership of the Department of Lands in the state of New South Wales; the university and CRC-SI.

He is also the deputy director of the CRCSI-CEODE Joint Centre for Spatial Information, a collaboration with the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Ge visited the China Scholarship Council during a trip to China in July 2008, on the recommendation of the Chinese Consulate-General in Sydney. CSC funds 7000 scholarships each year to select the best Chinese postgraduate students and send them to the best overseas universities to conduct world-class research.

CSC will provide a number of such scholarships to fund earthquake studies in CRCSI/UNSW. More details can be found at the CSC website (in Chinese).

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