Dr Sam Lymbery (UWA) is finding ways to manipulate the behaviour of damaging invasive ants in order to reduce reliance on pesticides and restore ecosystem balance.
Kristina Heidrich (UWA) is assembling data on fishing catches over the past 70 years to support policy for the sustainable management of global tuna fisheries.
Dr Philipp Bayer (UWA) research focuses on the genomics of wheat collections. These old varieties harbour unexplored genetic diversity such as novel and unknown resistance genes, genes linked to yield, or genes linked to salt tolerance.
Dr Rachel Zemek (UWA/Telethon Kids Institute) is exploring ways in which the body’s immune response to cancer surgery can be reprogrammed to kill any remaining cancer cells.
Dr Georgia Hay (Curtin) works with interdisciplinary medical specialists to find more effective ways for them to pool their expertise in the diagnosis of rare diseases.
Dr Lucy Furfaro (UWA) is examining bacterial infection during pregnancy to see whether bacteriophages (viruses that kill bacteria) can protect neonates from infection.
Dr Jessica Buck (UWA/Telethon Kids Institute) is working to find new combinations of medicines that increase the effectiveness of radiotherapy for children with brain cancer.
Dawid Makosa (UWA) is examining the molecular mechanism that drives age-related cognitive decline, with the aim of finding treatments to preserve cognitive function in the elderly.
Akila Balachandran (Murdoch) is developing new chemicals that modify the growth and survival of cancer cells, in order to develop targeted cancer therapies.
Gladymar Pérez Chacón (Curtin/Telethon Kids Institute) is investigating whether the effect of some whooping-cough vaccines on the infant immune system may also prevent food allergy.
Dr Julie Ji (UWA) is investigating how mental imagery-based simulations of future rewarding experiences can be leveraged to promote greater reward-seeking behaviour in depression via its impact on judgment, motivation and decision-making.
Anna Faber (UWA) is teaching bacteria how to eat certain types of plastic in marine conditions by combining the fastest plastic-degrading enzymes found in nature with the fastest growing, non-pathogenic marine bacterium in the world.
Houda Ennaceri’s (Murdoch) research focuses on microalgal downstream processing, capitalizing on innovative and low-cost technologies for microalgal biofuel production.
Claudio Vergara-Saez (UWA and CSIRO) is deciphering the physical, biological, and chemical interactions within surface water, groundwater, climate and pit lakes.
Thalles Araujo (UWA) combines data-driven techniques and computer models to simulate the coastal oceans and forecast flooding and erosion in Western Australia.
Matthew Heydenrych (UWA) is developing novel epigenetic tests for detecting sexual maturity state in live fish to facilitate improved conservation and fishing industry management.
Celina Burkholz (UWA) is studying the impact of rising sea temperatures on kelp forests in order to identify ways of increasing the resilience of kelp.
Emily's PhD research focussed on the critically endangered whitebellied frog (Geocrinia alba) which is restricted to a small area of remaining habitat in the Margaret River Region of Western Australia.
India's current research reviews how ecological knowledge of rainforest plants may have been a significant factor facilitating the migration of humans from Sunda to Sahul 65,000 years ago.
Manou's research applied Artificial Intelligence techniques to develop a new network infrastructure for electricity networks in remote areas that account for the new possibilities through renewable energy sources.
Sarah from Mandurah looked at genetic variation and environmental adaptability in dung beetles to help improve performance of Australian pastoral sector and develop improved understanding of species translocation.
Dr. Shimul Nath (UWA) is investigating infrared remote sensing technology and its future role in preventing the spread of bushfires, as well as its application in other fields such as agriculture, astronomy and medicine.
Dr Jacob Martin (Curtin) is developing new carbon ‘sponges’ that can hold hydrogen, and which will provide a new method for storing and transporting hydrogen fuel.
Dr David Gozzard (UWA/ICRAR) is developing laser technologies to replace radio communications between satellites and earth, thereby massively increasing the rate of data transmission.
Dr Marcus Korb (UWA) is developing new iron-based catalysts for a range of chemical transformations, with a focus on demonstrating chemical bond forming reactions important in the fine-chemicals sector.
Dr Arman Siahvashi (UWA) is producing new understanding of the process of hydrogen liquefaction and storage which will support the development of hydrogen as a clean fuel.
Through the Forrest Fellowship, Jessica Kretzmann (UWA) aims to bring DNA origami as a new field of research to Western Australia. Specifically, Jessica will aim to develop broad-spectrum viral diagnostic sensors using DNA origami.
Dr Neil Robinson (UWA) uses a range of analytical chemistry approaches to design and characterise functional porous materials of importance to a wide range of energy, environment and societal issues.
Dr Matthew Dodd (UWA) is an astrobiologist reconstructing the evolutionary changes of life and Earth during the transition from an anoxic microbial world, to the oxygen animal rich world today.
Callan Wood (Curtin) is investigating new imaging and modelling techniques to analyse observations made by radio telescopes of jets launched from black holes within our Galaxy.
Harrison Caddy (UWA) uses computational fluid dynamics to examine blood flow within the eye in order to study the vision disorder affecting astronauts on long-duration space flights.
Adam Wdowiak (UWA) works on the creation of a novel class of human-designed molecules – triangulenes – and investigates their properties and potential uses.
Nicholas Lawler (UWA) uses next-generation genetic sequencing to study the effect of millimetre wave light on DNA, with the aim of developing new forms of non-invasive therapies.
I hope that a better understanding of the past biodiversity changes across the globe can help us better understand and protect the biodiversity that we see today.
Dr Liam Scarlett (Curtin) modeled the pattern of atomic and molecular collisions to provide fundamental understanding of the physics of low-temperature plasmas in nuclear fusion technology.
I have always been inspired by the complexity of the molecular mechanism of how our human genome is regulated, and whether it is possible to learn from nature to design tools that turn genes on or off.
Dulce used genomic and epigenomic technologies to evaluate the impact of environmental stimuli and L1 mobilisation to better understand brain function and dysfunction.
Bhedita’s research focused on using animal models to investigate the long-term effects of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS), a non-invasive brain stimulation technique used to treat several brain disorders including depression and Alzheimer’s disease.
The Forrest Research Foundation is a centre for top researchers and scholars that focuses on driving world-class research and innovation in Western Australia. The Forrest Scholarship offers a stimulating, inspiring and unique experience that encourages each Forrest Scholar to make positive change to the world.
Dr Cassandra Tytler's (ECU) creative art project A Whisper, a Chorus finds ways to awaken understanding around the interconnections between the environment and all people, bringing race, gender, colonisation, and class concerns to the centre of the climate care discussions.
Ellie Eshraghian-Haakansson's (UWU) core research explores the evolving role of the witness, focusing on affective storytelling using virtual environments in order to foster emotional connections among strangers. How can we build VR environments to enable a viewer to become a co-author and an active witness with Others’ experiences?
Dr Jo Pollitt (ECU) is Forrest Performance and Creative Leadership Fellow and an interdisciplinary artist-scholar with the Centre for People, Place, and Planet artist at Edith Cowan University working across both the School of Education and Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts.
Liyuwork Dana (Curtin) is developing an index to map the location and extent of food insecurity among Australian households and identifying ways to improve assistance to these households.
Dr Francesco De Toni (UWA) investigates the way Australians express their emotions when talking about health and illness in order to enhance the communication skills of health-care professionals.
Dr Micah Wilson (Curtin) draws on recent developments in psychological assessment, computational methods, and sensor technology to discover new approaches to optimise workforce wellbeing and performance.
Dr Catriona Stevens (UWA) studies migrant workers in the aged care sector and develops practical proposals to better support this workforce and the older Australians for whom they care.
Dr Shannon Algar (UWA) uses modern mathematics to analyse the physiological characteristics of individual livestock animals to improve both animal welfare and livestock husbandry.
Claire Doll (UWA) explores opportunities for water conservation and improvements in urban biodiversity by examining public preferences for alternative urban park designs.
Dr Andrea Rassell (UWA) uses media art to present visualisations of ‘invisible’ nanomedical technologies, and to engage the public in discussion of these innovative technologies.
