Dr Yongze Song
2025 Western Australia Award WinnerDr Yongze Song, Senior Lecturer at Curtin University, uses geospatial artificial intelligence (GeoAI) to build smarter, greener, and more sustainable cities. Urban environments face growing challenges, roads deteriorate faster under... Read More »
Dr Denis Fougerouse
2025 Western Australia Award WinnerDr Denis Fougerouse, Senior Lecturer at Curtin University, is helping secure Australia’s role in the global transition to clean energy by improving how we find and extract critical minerals—the essential... Read More »
Dr Myles Murphy
2025 Western Australia Award WinnerDr Myles Murphy, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Edith Cowan University, is helping millions of Australians recover from musculoskeletal injuries and chronic pain. More than seven million people in Australia live... Read More »
Dr Masoumeh Zargar
2025 Western Australia Award WinnerDr Masoumeh Zargar, Senior Lecturer at Edith Cowan University, is developing smart materials to solve some of today’s toughest water and environmental challenges. Microplastics and PFAS are increasingly found in... Read More »
Dr James Lloyd
2025 Western Australia Award WinnerDr James Lloyd, Research Fellow at The University of Western Australia, is reimagining how we design crops for the future, on Earth and beyond. Current genetically modified crops rely on... Read More »
Dr Kefyalew Alene
2025 Western Australia Award WinnerAssociate Professor Kefyalew Alene, based at Curtin University, is an infectious disease epidemiologist whose pioneering work is transforming global tuberculosis (TB) control. TB remains the world’s leading infectious killer, causing... Read More »
Dr Fatima Naim
2025 Western Australia Award WinnerDr Fatima Naim, Senior Research Fellow at Curtin University, is advancing crop protection to safeguard global food security in the face of climate change and rising disease pressure. Based at... Read More »
Dr Mohiuddin Ahmed
2025 Western Australia Award WinnerDr Mohiuddin Ahmed, Senior Lecturer of Computing and Security at Edith Cowan University, is safeguarding Australia’s digital future by strengthening resilience against cybercrime. Every year, Australians lose billions of dollars... Read More »
Dr Houda Ennaceri
2025 Western Australia Award WinnerDr Houda Ennaceri, Forrest Research Fellow at Murdoch University, is pioneering sustainable solutions to one of the biggest challenges in renewable energy, making biofuels economically viable. Today’s biofuel production relies... Read More »
A/ Prof Atiq Zaman
2025 Western Australia Award WinnerAssociate Professor Dr Atiq Zaman, based at Curtin University, is tackling one of the world’s most pressing sustainability challenges—the global waste crisis driven by the linear “take–make–dispose” economy. Every year,... Read More »
Dr Chris Jolly
2025 Northern Territory Award Winner, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Macquarie University, is addressing one of Australia’s most pressing environmental challenges: biodiversity loss driven by invasive species. Although Australia is a global biodiversity hotspot, it... Read More »
Professor Ada Cheung
2025 Victorian Award WinnerProfessor Ada Cheung is a clinician-scientist focused on one goal: building robust evidence to improve the health and wellbeing of transgender and gender-diverse people. Although 0.9% of Australians are trans,... Read More »
Dr Iliana Medina
2025 Victorian Award WinnerOne of the main ways through which animals face problems in nature is by modifying their behaviour. Iliana’s work aims to understand why animals behave the way they do, and... Read More »
Dr Vera Korasidis
2025 Victorian Award WinnerDr. Vera Korasidis’s research focuses on studying the Earth’s past to prepare for its future. Dr. Korasidis reconstructs ancient environments and climates during extreme greenhouse periods, highly relevant as current... Read More »
A/Prof Sarah Erfani
2025 Victorian Award WinnerDr. Sarah Erfani’s work addresses a critical challenge in modern technology: ensuring that artificial intelligence (AI) systems are safe, trustworthy, and resilient in the face of uncertainty and attack. While... Read More »
Dr Rhea Longley
2025 Victorian Award WinnerRhea’s research aims to address a major global health challenge – persistence of malaria in countries very close to elimination. In the Asia-Pacific region, malaria can result in hidden parasite’s... Read More »
Dr Yi (David) Ju
2025 Victorian Award WinnerDr Yi (David) Ju’s research focuses on a central challenge in nanomedicine: how to deliver drugs and gene therapies safely and precisely to the right cells and tissues in the... Read More »
Dr Priscila Machado
2025 Victorian Award WinnerUltra-processed food sales are growing worldwide and now make up a large part of diets in many countries, including Australia. Ultra-processed foods are made by big companies in factories using... Read More »
Dr Louise La Sala
2025 Victorian Award WinnerIn Australia, suicide is the leading cause of death for young people aged 12–25 and many are concerned about the impact of social media on youth mental health. While often... Read More »
Dr Jie Tang
2025 Victorian Award WinnerDr Jie Tang’s research addresses a critical challenge in cancer prevention: patients who have undergone surgery or chemotherapy for bowel cancer remain at high risk of recurrence. While cancer vaccines... Read More »