Winners and finalists

Everyone today is talking about AI In our new centre. We bring human intelligence and artificial intelligence together. Many of the concerns people have today about AI are because it is not yet human-centric, people wonder, how do we work with ai? Can we trusted, these are challenging, we want to solve.

So we really work on chronic respiratory diseases. We're using multis technology to more holistically develop a picture of the entire disease process. We can identify molecules that control those entire disease pathways. So our major goal is to identify new therapeutic targets, develop new therapies to treat chronic respiratory disease.

A lot of our research and design studies focuses on climate change and how designers and design researchers should operate differently to visualise design better futures and orient students towards thinking about climate change. We Were looking at developing an AL based bioplastics industry in regional New South Wales, and that involves integrating disciplinary areas like material science and product design and design ethnography.

In my research group, we aim to build quantum processes and quantum computers out of small scale electronic systems that operate at such low temperatures that they actually become superconducting, so that we can actually use these systems to do quantum simulations, to develop the techniques in our labs that can later be applied to the large scale future quantum computers that we'll see in industry in 20 to 30 years.

Australia's beaches have profound ecological economic and cultural importance, yet they're often threatened by poor water quality. We've developed a new set of techniques that allow us to precisely determine where poor water quality is coming from. This has allowed our government partners to identify failures in their wastewater infrastructure and fix up leaks, and ultimately lead to improved water quality at a number of beaches.

My research programme is on about fracture prevention and in fracture prevention. The challenge is how to identify people at high risk of fractures. With the health of the N-H-M-R-C fellowship, we have developed a digital tool. We call it bone checks. For personalised fracture risk assessment. We could reduce the risk of fracture in the general population by up to 50%.