11 outstanding early career researchers join the University

Now in its 21st year,聽聽was the first scheme of its kind in Australia when launched in 1996. It aims to recruit promising young scholars in order to enhance the research strengths and culture of the University and enable them to contribute to its thriving intellectual life.

This year, the scheme focused on recruiting talented recent doctoral graduates who can contribute to our whole-of-university multidisciplinary initiatives, including the , the and the .

2017 Fellows and their projects

Dr Alessandro Tuniz

Joins the .

笔谤辞箩别肠迟:听'Ultra-compact highly-nonlinear hybrid plasmonic waveguides'

Dr Benjamin Brown

Joins the .

笔谤辞箩别肠迟:听'Single-shot error correction for robust quantum technologies'

Dr Dong-Hoon Lee

Joins the .

笔谤辞箩别肠迟:听'Enabling technologies for simultaneous PET-MR brain imaging in awake and responsive small animals'

Dr Kaylena Ehgoetz Martens

Joins the聽.

笔谤辞箩别肠迟:听'Using functional neuroimaging and neurophysiology to aid the prediction and diagnosis of common synucleinopathies'

Dr Mohammad Ali Moni

Joins the聽.

笔谤辞箩别肠迟:听'Bioinformatics and machine-learning methods for diagnosis and prognosis of ovarian cancer empowered by next generation sequencing'

Canadian neuroscientist Dr Kaylena Ehgoetz Martens is among the 2017 fellows. Working with the Brain and Mind Centre, she will investigate whether walking behaviour and associated brain network changes in high-risk individuals can act as an early biomarker for Parkinson鈥檚 disease.

Banglideshi researcher Dr Mohammad Ali Moni will join the聽聽to develop machine-learning techniques to diagnose and predict the prognosis of ovarian cancer patients, while British physicist Dr Benjamin Brown will join the聽聽to help bring practical quantum technologies closer to reality.