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Australian Economic Accelerator Seed Grant

Danielle Questiaux Portrait

IPAS member, Danielle Questiaux has been awarded a $196,248 Australian Economic Seed Tranche Two Grant for her resources project "Rapid development of new medical treatment compounds from radioactive mine waste". Danielle and her team will be working with industry partner Reforme Group.

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Advancing Asbestos Detection: Flawless Photonics and Prof Nigel Spooner Secure BRII Grant

Nigel spooner

The Regulatory Technology round of the Business Research and Innovation Initiative (BRII) is providing a $5 million grant to help develop new digital technologies in a bid to solve challenges faced by Australian businesses. ÌýIn conjunction with the ³ÉÈË´óƬ’s Prescott Environmental Luminescence Laboratory (PELL), Flawless Photonics Pty Ltd (Flawless) has been awarded $999,690 to further develop the project ‘Hand Portable, Non-contact, Real-time Fluorescence-based Asbestos Sensor’ asbestos testing technology.Ìý

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Global recognition for biomedical innovator

Dr Jiawen Li holding a sensor

Dr Jiawen Li, a biomedical engineer from the ³ÉÈË´óƬ, has been named in the 2023 global list ofÌýÌýby theÌýMIT Technology ReviewÌýfor her work in biomedical engineering. Dr Li is the only recipient of this prestigious global recognition from Australia.

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Dr Wei Zeng DECRA Award 2024

Dr Wei Zeng Portrait

Congratulations to IPAS member awarded a DECRA Fellowship valued at $389k in the Discovery Early Career Researcher Award 2024 round 1.

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Dr Chris Perrella has received prestigious Tall Poppy Awards for outstanding scientific achievement

Liaising with industry and defence, ’ research has real-world impact through development of measurement devices for use outside the laboratory. Ìý

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Portable Atomic Clock Team awarded NMI Measurement Impact and People's Choice Awards

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The ³ÉÈË´óƬ Portable Atomic Clock Team, represented by Dr Rachel Offer from the University’s Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing, won the NMI Measurement Impact award for measurement-related achievements demonstrating real-world impact. The team won for their world-first deployable, autonomous optical atomic clocks. The team also won the People's Choice award.

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ARC Centre of Excellence for Breakthrough Science

IPAS researchers , , , and , along with at UniSA are thrilled to be part of the $35m ARC Centre of Excellence in Optical Microcombs for Breakthrough Science (COMBS) led by RMIT. The South Australian node will be the largest in the Centre of Excellence.

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Conventional wisdom on tissue imaging turned on its head

An international team of experts has made a technological breakthrough for one of the most important forms of imaging: optical coherence tomography (OCT). They believe that selective collection of multiple scattered light may lead to improved image contrast at depth.

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Holograms for life: improving IVF success

A 3D hologram of a 2-cell embryo generated by the digital holographic microscope.

In a world-first, 3D holographic images of an embryo have been developed as part of a collaborative research project between the ³ÉÈË´óƬ and University of St Andrews. The images are created using miniscule amounts of light in a fraction of a second.

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A Decade of Innovation: Celebrating The Braggs Building's 10th Anniversary

Facilities

The ³ÉÈË´óƬ celebrates a decade of scientific achievements with the 10th anniversary of The Braggs Building, a $100 million state-of-the-art facility named after Nobel Laureates Sir William Henry Bragg and Sir William Lawrence Bragg. A hub for groundbreaking research and innovation, The Braggs, housing the Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing (IPAS), symbolizes the university's commitment to scientific excellence.

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