Leading Flinders academics Professor Keryn Williams and Professor Colin Raston have shared the University’s Researcher of the Year award for 2015.

The Researcher of the Year was awarded jointly to Professor Williams for sustained and outstanding NHMRC performance over 30 years and to Professor Raston for the ongoing applications of his Vortex Fluidic Device. The device’s capacity to ‘unboil’ an egg also earned Professor Raston an international Ig-Nobel prize earlier this year.

Professor Williams is an NHMRC Principal Research Fellow in the Department of Ophthalomology in the School of Medicine.

Professor Raston is South Australia Premier’s Professorial Research Fellow in Clean Technology based at the School of Chemical and Physical Sciences.

The prizes were presented in front of more than 100 Flinders researchers and collaborators by the current and former Deputy Vice-Chancellors (Research), Professor David Day and Professor Rob Saint.