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ARC Discovery Projects 2024

Congratulations to the following IPAS Members awarded ARC Discovery Projects for 2024

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Ingenuity 2023

Ingenuity participant at IPAS booth

IPAS was delighted to be invited to take part in the Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology Ingenuity 2023 Event on November 1st.

Many thanks to the 5 teams; Whiskey Sensing, Advanced Manufacturing, Novel Fluorescence, ATTA and Laser Radio who took time out of their busy schedules to provide interesting and interactive displays for nearly 3,600 attendees of all ages.

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Hybrid Imaging Catheter Wins Best New Invention

Aisha Sirop, Dr Jiawen Li and Francois Duvenage with KCA award

The University of Adelaide was awarded Best New Invention by Knowledge Commercialisation Australasia (KCA) during the 2023 KCA Australasian Research Commercialisation Awards for work commercialising a Hybrid Imaging Catheter developed by Dr Jiawen Li.

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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.  In conjunction with the University of Adelaide’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

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Global recognition for biomedical innovator

Dr Jiawen Li holding a sensor

Dr Jiawen Li, a biomedical engineer from the University of Adelaide, has been named in the 2023 global list of Innovators Under 35  by the MIT Technology Review for 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 Dr Wei Zeng 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, Chris’ research has real-world impact through development of measurement devices for use outside the laboratory.  

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

Team Photo

The University of Adelaide 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 Prof Kishan Dholakia, Prof Andre Luiten, Prof Heike Ebendorff-Heidepriem, Dr Sarah Scholten and Dr Andy Boes, along with Prof David Lancaster 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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