VC prizes highlight emerging researchers

Up-and-coming researchers at Flinders University are celebrating early-career success, with 12 emerging researchers being rewarded with Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for Doctoral Thesis Excellence, along with six awards for the best HDR Student publications.

Vice-Chancellor Professor Colin Stirling underlined the importance of the work that lay at the heart of these awards, noting that many of these researchers are contributing to the University’s flagship research projects, including NHMRC and ARC projects.

Dr Tamara Crittenden

Leading this year’s tributes are two HDR Student Research Impact Prizes that have been awarded to Dr Tamara Crittenden (College of Medicine and Public Health) for her thesis “Quality of life and other outcomes of breast reduction surgery” and Dr Paul Young (College of Science and Engineering) for his thesis “Considerations on the operation of high rate algal ponds for wastewater treatment and microalgal biomass production”.

Vice-Chancellor Prizes for Doctoral Thesis Excellence went to:

  • Dr Max Worthington (College of Science and Engineering) for “Sulfur Polymers for Human Health and the Environment.”
  • Dr Paul Young (College of Science and Engineering) for “Considerations on the operation of high rate algal ponds for wastewater treatment and microalgal biomass production.”
  • Dr Trine Enemark (College of Science and Engineering) for “Hydrogeological conceptual model development and testing
  • Dr Eleanor Pratt (College of Science and Engineering) for “The genomic basis of adaptation in bottlenose dolphins (genus Tursiops).”
  • Dr John McCarthy (College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences) for “Maritime Archaeology and 3D Digital Libraries: a case study of Dutch Merchant Ships (1595 – 1800).”
  • Dr Omaima Eldeeb (College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences) for “Sea City Connections, Network analyses of shipwreck amphorae from Alexandria and the North-Western coastline of Egypt.”
  • Dr Thi Nguyen (College of Medicine and Public Health) for “Screening and evaluating enzymes produced by actinobacteria growing on seaweed and their bioproducts.”
  • Dr James McEvoy (College of Medicine and Public Health) for cotutelle: “Diagnostic exposure of ionizing radiation and its long-term effects.”
  • Dr Rhys Aston (College of Business, Government and Law) for “Inviting New Worlds: Jurisgenesis, Anarchism, and Prefigurative Social Change.”
  • Dr Amirhosein Ramazanpour Esfahani (College of Science and Engineering) for “Effect of natural biofilm on transport and retention behaviour of nanoparticles and microorganisms in limestone sediments: implications for managed aquifer recharge.”
  • Dr Enrique Aragon Nunez (College of Humanitites, Arts and Social Sciences) for cotutelle: “Re-Connecting the Sea: The Rochelongue metals assemblage, maritime connectivity and cultural interactions in West Languedoc, France, seventh to sixth centuries BC.”
  • Dr Irena White (College of Education, Psychology and Social Work) for “Building institutional capacity for mainstreaming e-learning innovations: A new methodology for a wicked problem.”

Awards for the best HDR Student publications went to:

  • Yuan (Joanne) Zhou (College of Education, Psychology and Social Work) for “Online Imagery rescripting among young women at risk of developing an eating disorder: A randomised controlled trial.”
  • Katerina Bryant (College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences) for “Hysteria: A Memoir of Illness, Strength and Women’s Stories Throughout History.”
  • Michael Zabolocki (College of Medicine and Public Health) for “BrainPhys neuronal medium optimized for imaging and optogenetics in vitro.”
  • Dr Damian Adams (College of Nursing and Health Sciences) for “Self-reported physical health status of donor sperm-conceived adults.”
  • Mehrdad Aghamohamadi (College of Science and Engineering) for “Two-Stage Robust Sizing and Operation Co-Optimization for Residential PV–Battery Systems Considering the Uncertainty of PV Generation and Load.”
  • Mohsen Chitsaz (College of Science and Engineering) for “Multidrug resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae: identification of functionally important residues in the MtrD efflux protein.”

The winners will be presented with their awards in a special ceremony at 10.30am, Wednesday 26 May in the Alere Function Centre at Flinders University’s Bedford Park campus.

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