Benjamin Hellmig

The mission of OzGrav is to capitalise on the historic first detections of gravitational waves to understand the extreme physics of black holes and warped spacetime, and to inspire the next generation of Australian scientists and engineers through this new window on the Universe. The Centre brings together the Australian…

Iain Couzin and his team discovered that there exist fundamental geometrical principles that apply across scales of biological organization, from the scale of neural interactions, to individual and collective decision-making. Specifically, their work revealed that animals’ brains cope with environmental complexity by spontaneously reducing the many options they face in…

José L. Flores-Guerrero proposes using Raman spectroscopy directly over the skin of patients as a painless and low-cost method that allows the identification of the substances needed for the diagnosis and prediction of diabetes.

Nominated by: Shane West, Aleap Presented by: Saeid Hosseini

The project shows that for the first time with Avicenna different cultures (Greek, Arabic, Latin, Hebrew) and disciplines (philosophy, theology, science) interacted globally across religious diversity. Arabic manuscripts of Avicenna’s main work on metaphysics circulated from Spain until India, and its Latin translation was an asset of European thought for…

PRESENTED BY Pierre Le Blainvaux NOMINATED BY Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Tags: Ecological Chemistry, Green Chemistry, Biosorption, Biomass, Eco-catalysts

Journey between designer Salome Bazin (Cellule Studio) and myself, a bioengineering scientist, aiming to shape the future of cardiovascular healthcare by creating conversations with citizens and cardiac patients in particular. Two milestones of our collaboration have been “Big Heart Data”, a series of 50 3D printed hearts, and “Kalostasis”, an…

Maureen Gumbo proposes utilising porous materials which can absorb water vapour and condense it into usable clean water to combat the shortage of clean water.

While digital media offer the opportunity for people of all walks of life to gain access to essential information, digital literacy is a necessary component of achieving an informed citizenry. From public health info to active political engagement, knowing how to find and interpret reliable information online is essential. While…

The massive extraction and exploitation of personal data is having a profound impact on the world’s economic systems. Shoshana Zuboff names and analyses this ‘surveillance capitalism’, a born-digital logic of accumulation that unilaterally claims private human experience for unprecedented processes of production, commodification and sales. The digital dream once promised…