Dr Derek Tran
Eight babies are born with congenital heart disease in Australia every day. While advances in medical care mean most now survive into adulthood, many experience lifelong fatigue, breathlessness, reduced exercise capacity, and cardiovascular complications. Reduced exercise capacity is more than a limitation on everyday activities. In people with congenital heart disease, it is associated with…
Read More »Dr Hammond Pearce
Dr Hammond Pearce studies how artificial intelligence is changing the security and trustworthiness of the digital systems we increasingly depend on. AI can help us write software, design computer hardware and communicate at unprecedented scale, but it can also introduce security vulnerabilities, accelerate misinformation and make it harder to know what information and technology we…
Read More »Dr Laura Driessen
Stars have a big impact on the planets they orbit. Dr Laura Driessen is a radio astronomer at the Sydney Institute for Astronomy, University of Sydney, who investigates stars to find out if they have the right conditions for life. Laura uses radio telescopes in Australia, like the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) telescope and Australian…
Read More »A/Prof Clare Arnott
Prof Clare Arnott is a cardiologist and researcher, dedicated to advancing global health outcomes in cardiovascular disease, with a focus on addressing inequities in women. Evidence suggests that women are under-diagnosed, under-treated, and under-researched. Australian women are much less likely to have heart health checks than men, and if they have a heart attack are…
Read More »Dr Xuan Li
Most of us don’t tend to think about what happens to the water we use to wash our hands, flush a toilet or do a load of laundry. But once it flows down our drains and out of our households, its journey is only just beginning. From there, wastewater is collected and sent to treatment…
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Dr Aaron Eger
Kelp forests sit at a mystifying intersection. These incredible underwater forests are essential for supporting ocean life across the Southern half of Australia, yet they are largely ignored, and as a result, their management and conservation is largely underfunded and under resourced. These threads of our temperate seas are being unraveled by warming oceans, overfishing,…
Read More »Dr Laura Ryan
Dr Laura Ryan studied how sharks see and sense their world in order to understand why some sharks sometimes bite humans and unlock new ways to protect people. She discovered that white sharks often mistake swimmers and surfers for seals, their natural prey, because of the way they see. Using this knowledge, she developed light-based…
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Dr Kenya Fernandes
Over 40% of invertebrate pollinator species are threatened with extinction globally. At the same time, antimicrobial resistance is making human infections increasingly difficult to treat. These may seem like separate problems, but the answers to both could be hiding in the same place: inside a bee nest. Dr Kenya Fernandes studies how bees, the bacteria…
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