Dr Nora Tischler
Nora Tischler is a quantum physicist, specialising in optical quantum information science. Nora was born in Hungary in 1987 and grew up near Frankfurt after her family relocated to Germany. She moved to Australia before starting her undergraduate degrees in mathematics and applied science at Queensland University of Technology. During this time, she developed a…
Read More »Dr Sobia Zafar
Dr Sobia Zafar is a specialist paediatric dentist, clinical senior lecturer and the Discipline lead in paediatric dentistry at The University of Queensland. She also holds an affiliated position of Senior Research Fellow at Child Health Research Centre. She is the current president of the Australia and New Zealand Society of Paeditric Dentistry (ANZSPD) Qld…
Read More »Dr Chun Xu
Dr Chun Xu is a senior lecture and group leader in nanomaterials at the School of Dentistry, UQ. His research utilises nanotechnology to create materials which help our bodies naturally regrow bone. These materials are designed with specialised functions, such as attracting stem cells and preventing bacterial growth. Stem cells then turn into bone cells and…
Read More »Dr Kevin Koo
Dr Kevin Koo is a Principal Research Scientist at UQCCR (UQ Centre for Clinical Research). Dr Koo’s research program engages a cross-disciplinary strategy to develop novel nanobiosensor technologies for detecting next-generation prostate cancer-specific biomarkers in urine. To date, he has demonstrated various platform technologies which can detect multiple urinary biomarkers with enhanced assay sensitivity, specificity…
Read More »Dr Melanie Finch
Dr Melanie Finch is a structural and metamorphic geologist at James Cook University, Australia. She completed her PhD at Monash University in 2016 and was then awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Tuebingen, Germany. She returned to Australia in 2018 in a teaching-research position at Monash University and then moved to…
Read More »Dr Nathan Boase
Current treatments for debilitating diseases rely on separate processes for diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring disease progression. But what if instead we can design need smart molecules that can do all these things simultaneously? It would improve therapy by lowering side-effects and allow for personalisation of a patient’s care. Dr Boase uses chemistry to create smart…
Read More »Dr Samuel Robinson
One in five Australians will suffer from chronic pain at some point in their lives. Many types of chronic pain remain poorly treated, and there is worldwide demand for new and creative pain treatment strategies. Dr Samuel Robinson is an expert on plants and animals that sting. His research is based on three simple observations:…
Read More »Dr Zeinab Khalil
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) occurs when bacteria, are increasingly resistant to antibiotics. By 2050, it is expected we will have 10 million deaths globally per year, due to untreatable infections. In 2019, WHO issued a warning that around 2.4 million people could die in high-income countries like Australia if AMR is not contained. Dr. Zeinab Khalil…
Read More »Dr Cullan Howlett
Dr Cullan Howlett is currently a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Mathematics and Physics at the University of Queensland. He uses telescopes located around the world to make maps of millions of other galaxies. Gravity, combined with the light and dark components of our Universe, creates patterns in these maps. Dr Howlett measures, modelling…
Read More »Dr Cheng Zhang
Dr Cheng Zhang is an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow (former National Health and Medical Research Council Fellow) at the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN), The University of Queensland (UQ) where he leads a research group in polymer chemistry and PFAS remediation. He obtained his PhD degree in 2016 in Materials Engineering under…
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