Exploring green chemistry techniques that can reduce greenhouse gas emissions has resulted in Flinders University PhD candidate Zoe Gardner being named an Australian Fulbright Scholar for 2023.
Zoe will travel to University of California Irvine and work with collaborators to research a process for enzymes to break down waste chemicals, using the Flinders University-developed Vortex Fluidic Device, as well as specific enzymes which have been enhanced and prepared for this purpose.
Zoe hopes her research can help close the carbon loop in chemical processes and be part of critical waste solutions needed to best protect our environment.
Professor Daniel P. Aldrich from Northeastern University will arrive at Flinders in March as Flinders University and Carnegie Mellon University Australia Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Applied Public Policy (Democratic Resilience), to study how geographic and virtual social networks filter the information that we receive and how we act on that information.
Dr Lynea Witczak Oldfather, from The University of California, Davis, has arrived in South Australia and joins Flinders with a Fulbright Future Scholarship (Postdoctoral). Dr Oldfather’s research focuses on one of the world’s few confirmed monogamous reptiles, the Australian sleepy lizard (Tiliqua rugosa) – so she will see join the biodiversity research team headed by Professor Mike Gardner, who just happens to be Zoe Gardner’s dad!