Paraskevas Sphicas is a particle physicist and Director of the Institute of Accelerating Systems and Applications (IESE), with a long experience in the research of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).

One of Melbourne’s most acclaimed barristers and dedicated defender of human rights, Cypriot Australian George Georgiou SC has been appointed as judge of the Country Court of Victoria, the state government announced last week.